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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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    • What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
    • By: Amanda Little
    • Narrated by: Amanda Little
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • In the fascinating story of the sustainable food revolution, an environmental journalist and professor asks the question: Is the future of food looking bleak - or better than ever? Climate models show that global crop production will decline every decade for the rest of this century....

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    • Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
    • By: George Monbiot
    • Narrated by: George Monbiot
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticize urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across 30 times as much land....

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    • Embracing Brand Citizenship to Fuel Both Purpose and Profit
    • By: Anne Bahr Thompson
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Good works are no longer optional. For many businesses, success comes in unexpected ways. Toms grew into a $600-million company by giving away 35 million pair of shoes....

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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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    • The Erosion of Civilizations
    • By: David R. Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 266 ratings
    • Dirt, soil, call it what you want, it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times....

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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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    • 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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    • 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: Theresa Husarik
    • Narrated by: Brett Barry
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Do you long for the country life? Hobby Farming For Dummies is a practical guide that will show you how to handle all the basics of small-scale farming....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 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 1,004 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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    • How to Get Small, Embrace Local, Live Better, and Work Less
    • By: Ben Hartman
    • Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • It’s time to think big about small farms. Award-winning author and “green leader” (Grist) Ben Hartman shares practical how-to tips, personal stories, and surprising examples of cutting-edge farmers and innovators around the world to show us how....

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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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    • How to Choose the Right People and Make the Right People Choose You
    • By: Christoph Lueneburger
    • Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-20
    • Language: English
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    • Building a culture of purpose is one of the greatest challenges facing modern leaders, as today's best minds are looking for meaning, not just jobs. More than any other single factor, cultures of purpose power winning organizations, attracting the smartest, most creative talent....

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    • And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
    • By: Judith D. Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Judith D. Schwartz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems there are positive, alternative scenarios....

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    • How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
    • By: Daniel C. Esty, Andrew S. Winston
    • Narrated by: Fred Stella
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Green to Gold is an essential guide for forward-thinking business leaders who see the Green Wave coming and want to profit from it....

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