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    • The American West and Its Disappearing Water
    • By: Marc Reisner
    • Narrated by: Joe Spieler, Kate Udall
    • Length: 27 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 577 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,974 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
    • By: Bill Gates
    • Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,613 ratings
    • Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions....

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    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • By: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,329 ratings
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

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    • The Future Is Better Than You Think
    • By: Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • Authors Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years....

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    • Life and Death Along the Colorado River
    • By: David Owen
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland....

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    • How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World
    • By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
    • Narrated by: Steven Kotler
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,654 ratings
    • Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth....

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    • Essential Techniques, Tools, and Tips to Survive Any Water Emergency
    • By: Carlos Mack
    • Narrated by: Zachary Locklear
    • Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Are you prepared to face water emergencies head-on? When it comes to survival, having a reliable water source is absolutely crucial. Don't leave your family's safety to chance....

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    • The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
    • By: Dana Thomas
    • Narrated by: Dana Thomas
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • In Fashionopolis, Thomas sees renewal in a host of developments, including printing 3-D clothes, clean denim processing, smart manufacturing, hyperlocalism, fabric recycling - even lab-grown materials....

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    • How to Find, Harvest, Filter, Purify, and Store Water Off the Grid
    • By: Johnathan Nash
    • Narrated by: Bill Ayers
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Water is the most fundamental of survival needs. While many communities around the world are used to struggling with water shortages, many of us have no clue what we would do in this sort of situation....

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    • The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
    • By: Henry Sanderson
    • Narrated by: Rory Barnett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars....

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    • The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
    • By: Charles Fishman
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 477 ratings
    • As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this delightful narrative excursion, water runs our world in a host of awe-inspiring ways....

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    • Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
    • By: Kristen Iversen
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Kristen Iversen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America"....

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    • William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • In 1907 Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles....

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    • Remaking the Way We Make Things
    • By: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 428 ratings
    • In this book, authors William McDonough and Michael Braungart challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world....

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    • The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
    • By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
    • Narrated by: Chris Harper
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry—the secretive multi-billion dollar world that underpins the modern economy, quietly profiting from what we leave behind....

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    • The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
    • By: Jon Wilkman
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 07-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, a 20-story-high concrete structure just fifty miles north of Los Angeles, suddenly collapsed, releasing a devastating flood that roared 54 miles to the Pacific Ocean, destroying everything in its path....

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