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    • The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
    • By: Vince Beiser
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it - and sometimes, even kill for it....

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    • Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
    • By: Seth M. Siegel
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can serve as a model for the United States and countries everywhere by showing how to blunt the worst of the coming water calamities....

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    • A History of Water and Humankind
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Elixir spans five thousand years, from the beginnings of civilization to the parched American Sun Belt of today....

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    • By: Stephen Emmott
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us. As the population continues to grow, our problems will increase....

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    • Global Solutions for a Changing Climate
    • By: David Sedlak
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • It is not your imagination: water crises are more frequent. Our twentieth-century systems for providing the water that grows food, sustains cities, and supports healthy ecosystems are failing to meet the demands of growing population and the challenges brought on by climate change....

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    • A True Story from a Hotter World
    • By: John Vaillant
    • Narrated by: Alan Carlson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • From the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce comes a stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind....

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    • The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
    • By: William R. Catton
    • Narrated by: MJ McGalliard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Our day-to-day experiences over the past decade have taught us that there must be limits to our tremendous appetite for energy, natural resources, and consumer goods....

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    • Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960
    • By: Douglas Brinkley
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • The Quiet World documents the heroic fight waged by the U.S. federal government from 1879 to 1960 to save wild Alaska....

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    • How We’ll Win the Climate War
    • By: Tom Steyer
    • Narrated by: Tom Steyer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Renowned investor and climate champion Tom Steyer gives us a unique and unvarnished perspective on how we can all fight climate change—joyfully, knowledgeably, and even profitably—at a time of unparalleled consequence and opportunity.

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    • Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
    • By: Timothy Egan
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest....

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    • Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
    • By: William Cronon
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England....

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    • Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity
    • By: Roman Krznaric
    • Narrated by: Roman Krznaric
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Here, leading social philosopher Roman Krznaric unearths fascinating insights and inspiration from the last 1000 years of world history that could help us confront the most urgent challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

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    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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    • The Story of Energy
    • By: Michael E. Webber
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A global tour of energy - the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat....

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    • My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier
    • By: Mark Adams
    • Narrated by: Mark Adams
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • From the acclaimed, best-selling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journey into Alaska, America's last frontier, retracing the historic 1899 Harriman Expedition....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Paul B. Thompson, Patricia E. Norris
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • While politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of them, and many of us, may struggle to define the term, let alone trace its history....

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    • What's Wrong with What We Drink
    • By: Seth M. Siegel
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author Seth Siegel tells how contaminants got in our drinking water, what they’re doing to us, and what we must do to make our water safe....

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