One Shot
Trees as Our Last Chance for Survival
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John Leary
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Drawing on 15 years of humanitarian work with communities on the verge of collapse, John Leary conveys how restoring agricultural lands with a diverse combination of trees and crops is the answer to reversing desertification, water scarcity, hunger, poverty, climate change and forced migration.
This book provides a compelling look at the state of the world's agriculture and its evolving impact on people and the environment. One Shot takes listeners on an evolving journey from the peanut fields of Africa to the corn fields of America; connecting seven of the world's most pressing challenges to farming practices, and offering the revival of forest gardens as a core agricultural solution.
In the coming decades, we have one shot to work together to rebuild our dying food systems and ecosystems. Discover how trees are our last chance for survival.
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Organic Manifesto
- How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
- De: Maria Rodale, Eric Scholsser - foreword
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 5 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment. She traces the genesis of chemical farming and the rise of the immense companies that profit from it, bringing to light the government's role in allowing such practices to flourish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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those in power must read and work upon it.
- De Jaktip en 12-20-17
De: Maria Rodale, y otros
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Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 27 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,718
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,480
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,472
In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Jared Diamond Downs You in Explanation
- De Rob en 07-20-18
De: Jared Diamond
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Enough
- Why the World's Poorest Starve in An Age of Plenty
- De: Roger Thurow, Scott Kilman
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 65
For more than 30 years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the Green Revolution succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every yearmost of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It's Time For Us To Be More Compassionate
- De James en 07-18-10
De: Roger Thurow, y otros
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Farmageddon
- The True Cost of Cheap Meat
- De: Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 170
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health, and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent insight of industrial farming
- De Grazyna en 04-19-14
De: Philip Lymbery, y otros
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Countdown
- Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
- De: Alan Weisman
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 18 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
Weisman visits an extraordinary range of the world's cultures, religions, nationalities, tribes, and political systems to learn what in their beliefs, histories, liturgies, or current circumstances might suggest that sometimes it's in their own best interest to limit their growth.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- De NorthFLADiver en 01-14-14
De: Alan Weisman
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
- De: Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch - associate editor
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
While everything appears to be collapsing around us - ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, water shortages, global famine, wars - we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children's children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary movie The 11th Hour, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture's blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Most Important Books of our Time
- De Jana en 04-24-20
De: Thom Hartmann, y otros
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Water in Plain Sight
- Hope for a Thirsty World
- De: Judith D. Schwartz
- Narrado por: Tia Rider
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 26
Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Crucial solutions
- De Shane Emanuelle en 07-25-19
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The Rational Optimist
- How Prosperity Evolves
- De: Matt Ridley
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,469
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,010
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,015
Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people's lives as never before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Personal
- De Robert F. Jones en 09-15-17
De: Matt Ridley
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The Upcycle
- Beyond Sustainability - Designing for Abundance
- De: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 127
The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the most consequential ecological manifesto of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons gained from 10 years of putting the cradle-to-cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people, William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: We don't just reuse resources with greater effectiveness, we actually improve them as we use them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A "must read" for the environmental movement.
- De Love owls en 07-09-13
De: William McDonough, y otros
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An Edible History of Humanity
- De: Tom Standage
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 571
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 468
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 468
Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is a pithy, entertaining account of how a series of changes---caused, enabled, or influenced by food---has helped to shape and transform societies around the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Flawed, but worthwhile
- De Ary Shalizi en 12-28-17
De: Tom Standage
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Banana
- The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
- De: Dan Koeppel
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 122
Banana combines a pop-science journey around the globe, a fascinating tale of an iconic American business enterprise, and a look into the alternately tragic and hilarious banana subculture (one does exist) - ultimately taking us to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world's most beloved fruit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Book - History, Science, and Economics
- De Jose en 11-08-17
De: Dan Koeppel
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Animal, Vegetable, Junk
- A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
- De: Mark Bittman
- Narrado por: Mark Bittman
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 196
The story of humankind is usually told as one of technological innovation and economic influence—of arrowheads and atomic bombs, settlers and stock markets. But behind it all, there is an even more fundamental driver: Food. In Animal, Vegetable, Junk, trusted food authority Mark Bittman offers a panoramic view of how the frenzy for food has driven human history to some of its most catastrophic moments.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Mostly Junk
- De Daniel Ducat en 05-22-21
De: Mark Bittman
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Apocalypse Never
- Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
- De: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,014
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,593
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,583
Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions. But in 2019, as some claimed "billions of people are going to die", contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Environmentalist with integrity!
- De Wayne en 07-01-20
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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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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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Silent Earth
- Averting the Insect Apocalypse
- De: Dave Goulson
- Narrado por: Dave Goulson
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
In the tradition of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking environmental classic Silent Spring, an award-winning entomologist and conservationist explains the importance of insects to our survival and offers a clarion call to avoid a looming ecological disaster of our own making.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thorough presentation of how we arrived at the current situation.
- De watergirl en 02-19-25
De: Dave Goulson
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Fruitless Fall
- The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
- De: Rowan Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Rowell Gormon
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality when, in 2007, beekeepers watched 30 billion bees mysteriously die. And they continue to disappear. The remaining pollinators, essential to the cultivation of a third of American crops, are now trucked across the country and flown around the world, pushing them ever closer to collapse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compulsory Reading - Share with Everyone!
- De Charles Koenen en 04-12-20
De: Rowan Jacobsen