Sustainability

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 72 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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    • 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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    • Feeding the World in the 21st Century
    • By: Dickson Despommier
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up....

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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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    • Human Evolution and the Environment
    • By: Paul R. Ehrlich
    • Narrated by: Anne H. Ehrlich
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • In humanity’s more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures clawing sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch of it....

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    • By: Satyajit Das
    • Narrated by: Satyajit Das
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The global economy is entering an era of protracted stagnation, similar to what Japan has experienced for over a decade....

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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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