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    • By: Adam Rome, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Adam Rome
    • Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • We’ve been celebrating Earth Day for 50 years now, but even the most ardent activists of today would have a hard time picturing the intensity and excitement that the first Earth Day in 1970 brought....

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    • What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability
    • By: David Owen
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is New York City....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 838 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: 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 1,313 ratings
    • Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian....

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    • Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
    • By: Rebecca Burgess
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear - by a leader in the movement for local textile economies....

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    • Beyond Sustainability - Designing for Abundance
    • By: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the most consequential ecological manifesto of our time....

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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 73 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 1,002 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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    • 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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    • 101 Steps to Making Better Places
    • By: Jeff Speck
    • Narrated by: Jeff Speck
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his best-selling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now....

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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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