A Force for Nature
The Story of the National Resources Defense Council and Its Fight to Save Our Planet
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The world's preeminent environmental organization began with a layer of soot on the windowsill of a Greenwich Village apartment. Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) founder John H. Adams, a pioneer of environmental action, was working as a lawyer for the U.S. Attorney's office when he and fellow lawyers teamed up to form a grassroots environmental advocacy group. Since 1970, NRDC has grown into an international powerhouse with 1.2 million members and a staff of scientists and lawyers whose mission is to safeguard the planet. This inspiring memoir tells the story of the NRDC and the environmental movement it sparked.
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Let There Be Water
- Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
- De: Seth M. Siegel
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 154
Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can serve as a model for the United States and countries everywhere by showing how to blunt the worst of the coming water calamities. Even with 60 percent of its country made of desert, Israel has not only solved its water problem; it also has an abundance of water. Israel even supplies water to its neighbors - the Palestinians and the Kingdom of Jordan - every day.
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3 out of 5 stars
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More water politics story than water technology
- De normal person en 04-12-21
De: Seth M. Siegel
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The Boom
- How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
- De: Russell Gold
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 249
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 209
Russell Gold, a brilliant and dogged investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has spent more than a decade reporting on one of the biggest stories of our time: the spectacular, world-changing rise of "fracking". Recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award for his work, Gold has traveled along the pipelines and into the hubs of this country’s energy infrastructure; he has visited frack sites from Texas to North Dakota; and he has conducted thousands of interviews with engineers and wildcatters, CEOs and roughnecks, environmentalists and politicians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Somehow the author manages to stay balanced
- De Emily C en 05-28-14
De: Russell Gold
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Simply Electrifying
- The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
- De: Craig R. Roach
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
Simply Electrifying: The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world: Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Michael Faraday, Samuel F.B. Morse, Thomas Edison, Samuel Insull, Albert Einstein, Rachel Carson, Elon Musk, and more. In the process, it reveals for the first time the complete, thrilling, and often dangerous story of electricity's historic discovery, development, and worldwide application.
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2 out of 5 stars
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decent, but ended up disappointing.
- De Alexander Douglass en 12-28-18
De: Craig R. Roach
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Bushwhacked
- Life in George W. Bush's America
- De: Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
In their second book on our current White House occupant, Ivins and Dubose take the wire brush to the Bush presidency and show how he has applied the same flawed strategies he used in governing Texas to running the largest superpower in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Richly informative & entertaining...
- De Native Texan en 10-29-03
De: Molly Ivins, y otros
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Dealing with China
- An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
- De: Henry M. Paulson
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 18 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 353
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 314
When Hu Jintao, China's then vice president, came to visit the New York Stock Exchange and Ground Zero in 2002, he asked Hank Paulson to be his guide. It was a testament to the pivotal role that Goldman Sachs played in helping China experiment with private enterprise. In Dealing with China, the best-selling author of On the Brink draws on his unprecedented access to both the political and business leaders of modern China to answer several key questions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Valuable Book on China
- De Michael Moore en 09-04-15
De: Henry M. Paulson
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The Quest
- Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
- De: Daniel Yergin
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 29 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 906
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 757
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 757
A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize. 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. The Quest tells the inside stories, tackles the tough questions, and reveals surprising insights about coal, electricity, and natural gas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best nonfiction book of 2011
- De Joshua Kim en 05-06-12
De: Daniel Yergin
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The Profiteers
- Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World
- De: Sally Denton
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 300
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 254
The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story. It begins with Warren A. "Dad" Bechtel, who led a consortium that constructed the Hoover Dam. From that auspicious start, the family and its eponymous company would go on to build the world, from the construction of airports in Hong Kong and Doha to pipelines and tunnels in Alaska and Europe to mining and energy operations around the globe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Your Liberal Bias is showing
- De Anonymous User en 03-29-18
De: Sally Denton
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Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition
- The American West and Its Disappearing Water
- De: Marc Reisner
- Narrado por: Joe Spieler, Kate Udall
- Duración: 27 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 581
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 488
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants to transform the West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too much mouth noise in narration
- De AES en 07-23-19
De: Marc Reisner
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Getting Green Done
- Hard Truths From the Frontlines of Sustainability Revolution
- De: Auden Schendler
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
Soccer moms drive Priuses. Sport utility vehicles are going hybrid. Families are using hemp shopping bags. More and more companies are developing "green" buildings. What's more, the business consultants say going green is easy and profitable. In reality, though, many green-leaning businesses, families, and governments are still fiddling with the small stuff while the planet burns. Why?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Green's Dirty Little Secrets
- De Martin en 07-10-09
De: Auden Schendler
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The Source
- How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers
- De: Martin Doyle
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how rivers have often been the source of arguments at the heart of the American experiment - over federalism, taxation, regulation, conservation, and development. Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the US Constitution's roots in interstate river navigation, the origins of the Army Corps of Engineers, the discovery of gold in 1848, and the construction of the Hoover Dam and the TVA during the New Deal, to the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great historical read without compare.
- De Thomas P Dore en 04-10-18
De: Martin Doyle
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The Bet
- Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future
- De: Paul Sabin
- Narrado por: Anthony Haden Salerno
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public’s imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, resource scarcity, and famine—with apocalyptic consequences for humanity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why can't we even discuss Global Overpopulaion???
- De Leslie deGraffenried en 10-19-15
De: Paul Sabin
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Divided Highways
- Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
- De: Tom Lewis
- Narrado por: Jim D. Johnston
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lots of interesting facts. Poor narration
- De Richard en 06-01-21
De: Tom Lewis
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Faster, Higher, Farther
- The Volkswagen Scandal
- De: Jack Ewing
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 193
A shocking exposé of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal. In mid-2015 Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world's largest automaker. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million cars that deceived emissions-testing mechanisms. By early 2017 VW had settled with American regulators and car owners for $20 billion, with additional lawsuits still looming.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent recap of VW, its structure and culture
- De Northern IN Mark en 05-27-17
De: Jack Ewing
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Vanishing Frontiers
- The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
- De: Andrew Selee
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Through portraits of business leaders, migrants, chefs, movie directors, police officers, and media and sports executives, Andrew Selee looks at this emerging Mexico, showing how it increasingly influences our daily lives in the United States in surprising ways - the jobs we do, the goods we consume, and even the new technology and entertainment we enjoy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A mandatory read, now more than ever
- De Haydon Hill en 08-04-19
De: Andrew Selee
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Deadly Spin
- An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
- De: Wendell Potter
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
In June 2009, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. This former senior vice president of CIGNA explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they skew political debate with multibillion-dollar public relations campaigns designed to spread disinformation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must Read
- De Randy en 01-11-11
De: Wendell Potter
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The Third Industrial Revolution
- How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
- De: Jeremy Rifkin
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Author Jeremy Rifkin presents an insider's account of the next great economic era: the Third Industrial Revolution, when a new ethic of sustainability will revolutionize the world we live in.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Lamenting "The Third Industrial Revolution"
- De Joshua Kim en 05-01-12
De: Jeremy Rifkin
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That Used to Be Us
- How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
- De: Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 16 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 601
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 492
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 485
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption - and spell out what we need to do now to rediscover America and rise to this moment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We have met the enemy and it is us.... Pogo
- De Soudant en 09-16-11
De: Thomas L. Friedman, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Force for Nature
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Susie
- 11-28-12
A True David vs. Goliath Feat of Eco-Salvation
I would like to preface this review by saying: Force for Nature blew my mind.
Force for Nature has all the humor, back-room deals, politics, and action of ANY Hollywood government conspiracy movie. It's about one of the most influential environmental movements that's ever existed, an organization that rocked the terrestrial boat—a true David vs. Goliath feat of ecological salvation.
If you ever wondered how small communities and neighborhoods conquered what seemed to be inevitable water/air/natural resource destruction, this is the true story of the characters that did it. Absolutely heroic and fearless!
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