Sustainability

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    • The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Farm
    • By: Forrest Pritchard, Ellen Polishuk
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies, Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • Do you dream of starting your own farm but wonder where to begin? Or do you already have a farm but wish to become more sustainable to compete in today's market? Start Your Farm, the first comprehensive business guide of its kind, covers these essential questions and more....

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    • Working with Nature to Build Soil Health (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
    • By: Robert Pavlis
    • Narrated by: David Skulski
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Soil Science for Gardeners is an accessible, science-based guide to understanding soil fertility and, in particular, the rhizosphere - the thin layer of liquid and soil surrounding plant roots, so vital to plant health....

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    • Capitalism vs. the Climate
    • By: Naomi Klein
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,586 ratings
    • In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care....

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    • How the Modern World Was Made
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization - in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics - that have transformed the way we live....

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    • The Case for Sustainable Meat Production
    • By: Nicolette Hahn Niman
    • Narrated by: Nicolette Hahn Niman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • For decades, it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists and health advocates that cattle and beef are public enemy number one. But is the matter really so clear? Hardly, argues environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman in her new book, Defending Beef....

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    • By: Jonathan Safran Foer
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,315 ratings
    • Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian....

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    • 15 Proven Plans for Market Farms on 5 Acres or Less
    • By: Josh Volk, Michael Ableman - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Compact Farms is a guide for anyone dreaming of starting, expanding, or perfecting a profitable farming enterprise on five acres or less. The farm plans explain how to harness an area's water supply, orientation, and geography in order to maximize efficiency and productivity....

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    • A History
    • By: Jeremy L. Caradonna
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Caradonna's unique and concise history broadens our understanding of what "sustainability" means, revealing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept....

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    • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,003 ratings
    • An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....

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    • Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 859 ratings
    • An incisive portrait of the two little-known 20th-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment.....

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    • Envisioning a Post-Peak World
    • By: John Michael Greer
    • Narrated by: Tony Craine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • The industrial age made possible by fossil fuels will surely decline as these fuels run out....

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    • An Epic Adventure in Local Living
    • By: Doug Fine
    • Narrated by: Doug Fine
    • Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Informative, lively, and compulsively readable, Doug Fine's humorous and topical work chronicles his year embracing an environmentally friendly lifestyle....

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    • How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
    • By: Maria Rodale, Eric Scholsser - foreword
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming....

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    • Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry
    • By: Leah Garcés
    • Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Leah Garcés has dedicated her career to fighting for the rights of the animals that end up on our plates....

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    • A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
    • By: Ted Genoways
    • Narrated by: Christopher Solimene
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril....

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    • Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
    • By: David R. Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • The problem of agriculture is as old as civilization. Throughout history, great societies that abused their land withered into poverty or disappeared entirely....

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    • A Deep History of the Earliest States
    • By: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 843 ratings
    • Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Find out....

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    • By: R. Buckminster Fuller, Kiyoshi Kuromiya
    • Narrated by: Alister Austin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Critical Path details how humanity found itself in its current situation - at the limits of the planet's natural resources and facing political, economic, environmental, and ethical crises....

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    • Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
    • By: Brett L. Markham
    • Narrated by: Christopher Solimene
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre....

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