Sustainability

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    • The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
    • By: Tatiana Schlossberg
    • Narrated by: Tatiana Schlossberg
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • With urgency and wit, Tatiana Schlossberg explains that far from being only a distant problem of the natural world created by the fossil fuel industry, climate change is all around us, all the time, lurking everywhere in our convenience-driven society, all without our realizing it....

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    • Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward
    • By: David W. Orr
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers the future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats....

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    • The New Economics of True Wealth
    • By: Juliet B. Schor
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Plenitude, economist and bestselling author Juliet B. Schor offers a groundbreaking intellectual statement about the economics and sociology of ecological decline....

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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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    • 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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    • One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World
    • By: Perrine Hervé-Gruyer, Charles Hervé-Gruyer
    • Narrated by: Tim Bruce
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • When Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer set out to create their farm in an historic Normandy village, they had no idea just how much their lives would change....

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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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    • Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
    • By: Daniel Yergin
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 29 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 898 ratings
    • In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Five-Step Process to Design and Develop Land (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
    • By: Rob Avis, Takota Coen, Michelle Avis
    • Narrated by: Adam Farnsworth
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome overwhelm in the complex process of resilient land design....

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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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    • How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity
    • By: Joseph G. Allen, John D. Macomber
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • From our offices and homes to schools, hospitals, and restaurants, the indoor spaces where we work, learn, play, eat, and heal have an outsized impact on our performance and well-being....

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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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    • Embrace Zero Waste, Build Sustainability Habits that Last, and Become a Minimalist Without Sacrificing the Planet
    • By: Stephanie Marie Seferian
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Eco-minimalism is a hot-button issue right now, and for good reason: living a life with less can be the key to saving our precious planet....

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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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    • 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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