Environment

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries From a Secret World

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Peter Wohlleben
• Narrated By Mike Grady
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A forester's fascinating stories backed by the latest scientific research illustrate how trees nurture and talk to each other. Are trees social beings? In this international best seller - which has sold more than 320,000 copies in Germany alone - forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families.

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Florence Williams
• Narrated By Emily Woo Zeller
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For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; Nikola Tesla conceived the electric motor while visiting a park. Intrigued by our storied renewal in the natural world, Florence Williams sets out to uncover the science behind nature's positive effects on the brain.

Cold, Hungry and in the Dark: Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Bill Powers
• Narrated By Michael Puttonen

Conventional wisdom has North America entering a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. But has industry been honest? Cold, Hungry and in the Dark argues that declining productivity combined with increasing demand will trigger a crisis that will cause prices to skyrocket, damage the economy, and have a profound impact on the lives of nearly every North American.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Narrated By Robin Wall Kimmerer
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.

The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Tim Flannery
• Narrated By Tim Flannery

Global warming has a sleuth of scientific evidence confirming the phenomenon's existence. If left long enough, the energy imbalance will mean the difference between survival and destruction of our species. With a little help from you, right now, the developing giants of Asia might even avoid the full carbon catastrophe in which we, the industrialised world, find ourselves so deeply mired. We are the generation fated to live in the most interesting times, for we are now the weather makers and the future of biodiversity and civilisation hangs on our actions. Tim Flannery has done his best to fashion this manual on the use of Earth’s thermostat. Now it’s over to you.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert: Summary, Review & Analysis

• UNABRIDGED (55 mins)
• By Save Time Summaries
• Narrated By Rebecca Lynn

It's hard to believe that the sum total of all human civilization will one day be compressed into a rock layer the width of a piece of paper, but in The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert gives the listener an expansive overview of how Mother Earth is getting ready to clean house - again. This time, it's not just the mastodon bones being thrown out with the trash. An exploration of how humans are heading for mass extinction largely due to their own follies, The Sixth Extinction compresses anecdotes, evidence, and scientific characters into a sometimes-humorous tome of an otherwise serious topic.

The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert: Key Takeaways, Analysis, & Review

• UNABRIDGED (25 mins)
• By Instaread
• Narrated By Michael Gilboe

The Sixth Extinction is a book by award-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert. In this book, the author demonstrates that species are dying out at a rate comparable to the previous mass extinctions, and if the trend of global warming, deforestation, and pollution continues in its present course, the numbers of extinct species will meet or exceed that rate of destruction.

The Lord God Made Them All: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 30 mins)
• By James Herriot
• Narrated By Christopher Timothy
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The fourth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small. Finally home from London after his wartime service in the RAF, James Herriot is settling back into life as a country vet. While the world has changed after the war, the blunt Yorkshire clients and menagerie of beasts with weird and wonderful ailments remain the same.

The Rise of Humans: Great Scientific Debates

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 54 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor John Hawks

Trying to understand our human origins has always been a fundamental part of who we are. Today, with the help of dramatic archaeological discoveries and groundbreaking advancements in technology and scientific understanding, we are closer than we've ever been to learning the true story. In recent decades, it has been the science of paleoanthropology that has led the investigation, helping us make sense of this controversial subject and providing us with a richer understanding of our origins.

Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Anna Krien
• Narrated By Danielle Carter
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The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Extreme weather is becoming all too familiar. And the Coalition government is divided and paralysed. In this vivid, urgent essay, Anna Krien explores the psychology and politics of a warming world.

Movement Matters: Essays on Movement Science, Movement Ecology, and the Nature of Movement

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Katy Bowman
• Narrated By Katy Bowman

What if we can make ourselves, our communities, and our planet healthier all at the same time by moving our bodies more? Movement Matters is a collection of essays in which biomechanist Katy Bowman continues her groundbreaking investigation of the mechanics of our sedentary culture and the profound potential of human movement. Here she widens her message and invites us to consider our personal relationship with sedentarism, privilege, and nature.

Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Bill Nye
• Narrated By Bill Nye
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Just as World War II called an earlier generation to greatness, so the climate crisis is calling today's rising youth to action: to create a better future. In Unstoppable, Bill Nye crystallizes and expands the message for which he is best known and beloved. That message is that with a combination of optimism and scientific curiosity, all obstacles become opportunities, and the possibilities of our world become limitless.

Landmarks

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Robert Macfarlane
• Narrated By Roy McMillan

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Landmarks, a fascinating exploration of the relationship between language and landscapes by Robert Macfarlane, read by Roy McMillan. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place.

Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Tim Flannery
• Narrated By Tim Flannery
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A timely intervention on climate change from the internationally acclaimed scientist and author of the hugely influential The Weather Makers. How close is the great climate crisis? Can our desire to overcome it drive humanity's next great waves of positive technological economic and social revolution? Or will we be plunged into the dystopian collapses and terrors of civilisations past?

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Andrea Wulf
• Narrated By David Drummond
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast; there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story.

Life on a Little Known Planet: A Biologist's View of Insects and their World

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Howard Ensign Evans
• Narrated By Scott Brick

This classic book is natural history at its best. The world of insects is Howard Evans' "little-known planet," the realm of the cockroach and the cricket, the wasp and the bedbug. With the precision and authority of a distinguished biologist, and the wit and grace of an accomplished writer, Howard Evans muses on the uniqueness of dragonflies, the romantic impulses of butterflies, the musicianship of crickets, and the mysteries of the firefly.

The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 1 min)
• By Lierre Keith
• Narrated By Joyce Bean
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We’ve been told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in The Vegetarian Myth, she argues that we’ve been led astray - not by our longings for a just and sustainable world, but by our ignorance. e truth is that agriculture is a relentless assault against the planet, and more of the same won’t save us. In service to annual grains, humans have devastated prairies and forests, driven countless species extinct, altered the climate, and destroyed the topsoil - the basis of life itself....

The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Thor Hanson
• Narrated By Marc Vietor

We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and the humble peppercorn drove the Age of Discovery, so did coffee beans help fuel the Enlightenment and cottonseed help spark the Industrial Revolution. And from the fall of Rome to the Arab Spring, the fate of nations continues to hinge on the seeds of a Middle Eastern grass known as wheat.

Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Wallace J. Nichols, Céline Cousteau - foreword
• Narrated By Wallace J. Nichols

Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water.

The Spontaneous Evolution Experience: The Choice to Become a New Species

• ORIGINAL (4 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Bruce H. Lipton PhD
• Narrated By Bruce H. Lipton PhD

In his groundbreaking book The Biology of Belief, Dr. Bruce Lipton outlined the evidence that our thoughts are just as important as our genes in controlling our health and evolution. As the emerging science of epigenetics shows, our beliefs and choices can control our biology down to a cellular level. According to Dr. Lipton, this startling scientific insight suggests a major evolutionary shift for the human species is on the horizon.

Netting the Sun: A Personal Geography of the Oregon Desert (Northwest Voices Essays)

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Melvin R. Adams
• Narrated By Nate Daniels

Netting the Sun offers a carefully crafted diversity of natural and human stories from a landscape seemingly empty and forlorn to passing casual travelers. This surprising interpretation of south central Oregon's botany, geology, wildlife, ethnography, and history reveals what a truly special place the high desert is.

Weather 101: From Doppler Radar and Long-Range Forecasts to the Polar Vortex and Climate Change, Everything You Need to Know About the Study of Weather

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Kathleen Sears
• Narrated By Fred Sanders
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Learn the science behind weather and weather prediction in this clear and straightforward new guide. Weather is everywhere, and while it's typically not thought about most of the time, it can get everyone's attention in an instant - whether it's the swirling destruction of a tornado, the wreckage from a hurricane, or the havoc of climate change on the environment.

Nature Never Stops Talking: 2nd Edition: The Wonderful Ingenuity of Nature

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Samuel J Alibrando
• Narrated By Neil Reeves

From a newspaper column that gained tremendous popularity for its upbeat celebration of ingenuity in nature, comes 100 of the best bite-size articles celebrating "intelligent Design." Covering a wide range of examples from nature in ways rarely considered, Alibrando engages the listener with scientific accuracy and a pinch of wit.

We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement That Restores the Planet

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
• Narrated By Drew Caiden

Sixteen-year-old climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and his group the Earth Guardians believe that choices made now will have a lasting impact on the world of tomorrow, and they want to ensure a positive, just, and sustainable future. Beginning with their empowering story, We Rise explores many aspects of effective activism and provides step-by-step information on how to start and join solution-oriented movements.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan - editor
• Narrated By Adrienne C. Moore, Ann Druyan

The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design.

The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 25 mins)
• By David R. Boyd
• Narrated By Corey M. Snow
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Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand's Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building - in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to provide a powerful new approach to protecting the planet and the species with whom we share it.

The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn
• Narrated By David Shih
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Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book", Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book "is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical."

Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Kathryn Miles
• Narrated By Bernadette Dunne
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A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It's a road trip full of surprises.

Chesapeake Gold: Man and Oyster on the Bay

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Susan Brait
• Narrated By MacKenzie Nikol Greenwood

The figure of an old man poling a skiff toward shore against the evening light engaged Susan Brait to learn about Chesapeake Bay, and it is that image which opens this her book on the oystermen of the Bay and the sapping of their traditional life, and even the bounty of the Bay itself, by the demands of American society. With directness and poetic economy Brait takes the listener into the life of the Bay and into the complex relationships that affect oysters and those who make their living from them.

How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs)
• By Eduardo Kohn
• Narrated By Malcolm Hillgartner
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Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human - and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador's Upper Amazon, Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the world's most complex ecosystems.

Are We Screwed?

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Geoff Dembicki
• Narrated By Matt Jamie
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A declaration of independence, and a call for systemic change, from the generation that will be most impacted by climate change. If anyone doubted the potential political power of the Millennial generation, Bernie Sanders' campaign put it in the spotlight. Are We Screwed? makes clear that the ardour for change defines this generation, especially when it comes to climate change, and they are willing to consider options that their elders might think naïve and impractical....

Isles of Amnesia: The History, Geography, and Restoration of America's Forgotten Pacific Islands - A Latitude 20 Book

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Mark J. Rauzon
• Narrated By Randall R. Berner
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For over a quarter century, biologist Mark J. Rauzon has worked in the field of island restoration, traveling throughout the American Insular Pacific to eradicate invasive plants and animals introduced by humans. The region spans from Hawai'i to Samoa to Guam, and their neighbors - small, obscure, tropical islands that are hundreds if not thousands of nautical miles from each other. These little-known US possessions and territories include various islands and atolls: Jarvis, Howland, Baker, the Northern Marianas, Wake, Palmyra, Johnston, and Rose Atoll, among others.

The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Henry Fountain
• Narrated By Robert Fass
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In the best-selling tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, The Great Quake is a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history - the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega - and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.

Our Plastic Legacy: How to Quit Plastic, Want Less & Live Green Daily

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Geordie Wardman
• Narrated By Randal Schaffer
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Did you know that every piece of plastic ever created from the time of invention in 1905 until now is still in existence today? Did you also know that by 2030 (just shy of two more decades) there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish? Follow along in this conversational and action-oriented book as author Geordie Wardman presents a simple solution to the reasons why you should be worried, nay terrified, about the plastic that is piling up, literally, on the planet.

Atlas of the Seven Continents

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 40 mins)
• By My Ebook Publishing House
• Narrated By Matt Montanez

Atlas of the Seven Continents contains amazing detailed information on population, beliefs, climate and vegetation, ecology and environment, economy, and politics and history. This atlas contains truly fantastic knowledge covering every inch of the globe.

The Restless Northwest: A Geological Story

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Hill Williams
• Narrated By James Killavey

In an easy conversational style, The Restless Northwest provides a brief overview of the remarkable geological processes that have shaped the Pacific Northwest. The narrative is also sprinkled with firsthand accounts of the people involved in recent exciting, scientific discoveries. Williams enlivens this story of long-ago geologic events, with a variety of fascinating asides, on everything from enormous undersea tubeworms, to the Willamette meteorite.

Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Miriam Horn
• Narrated By Chris Andrew Ciulla
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Many of the men and women doing today's most consequential environmental work - restoring America's grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans - would not call themselves environmentalists; they would be too uneasy with the connotations of that word. What drives them is their deep love of the land - the iconic terrain where explorers and cowboys, pioneers, and riverboat captains forged the American identity. They feel a moral responsibility to preserve this heritage and natural wealth.

The Electricity Scam: How Energy Companies Rob You, How to Stop Them

• UNABRIDGED (57 mins)
• By Rigel Garcia-Rives
• Narrated By Frank Rosko
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After months of home improvements and new energy efficient equipment purchases, there is no significant reduction to the electricity bill that the utility company sends monthly. Which embarks the writer into a journey to discover how electric utility companies work and how their prices enslave the ratepayers in an endless cycle of dependency. No external entity controls the way energy providers bill you each month, even the government. Indeed, the utility company is just one middleman from a myriad that inflates the price of the energy before you purchase it.

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Carl Sagan
• Narrated By JD Jackson, Ann Druyan

Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends - and their amazing links to recent discoveries.

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
• Narrated By Ann Druyan, Nick Sagan, Clinnette Minnis

World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a Roots for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits - self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics - are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals.