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    • The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
    • By: Vince Beiser
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it - and sometimes, even kill for it....

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    • The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
    • By: William R. Catton
    • Narrated by: MJ McGalliard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Our day-to-day experiences over the past decade have taught us that there must be limits to our tremendous appetite for energy, natural resources, and consumer goods....

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    • Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
    • By: Seth M. Siegel
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Story of Energy
    • By: Michael E. Webber
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A global tour of energy - the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat....

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    • What's Wrong with What We Drink
    • By: Seth M. Siegel
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author Seth Siegel tells how contaminants got in our drinking water, what they’re doing to us, and what we must do to make our water safe....

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    • A True Story from a Hotter World
    • By: John Vaillant
    • Narrated by: Alan Carlson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • From the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce comes a stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind....

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    • The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
    • By: Peter H. Gleick
    • Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Bottled & Sold shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last 100 years - and why we are poorer for it....

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    • The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
    • By: David Sedlak
    • Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges....

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    • Global Solutions for a Changing Climate
    • By: David Sedlak
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • It is not your imagination: water crises are more frequent. Our twentieth-century systems for providing the water that grows food, sustains cities, and supports healthy ecosystems are failing to meet the demands of growing population and the challenges brought on by climate change....

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    • How We’ll Win the Climate War
    • By: Tom Steyer
    • Narrated by: Tom Steyer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Renowned investor and climate champion Tom Steyer gives us a unique and unvarnished perspective on how we can all fight climate change—joyfully, knowledgeably, and even profitably—at a time of unparalleled consequence and opportunity.

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    • Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
    • By: Timothy Egan
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest....

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    • Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
    • By: William Cronon
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England....

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    • My Quest in the Territory of Alaska
    • By: Sam Keith
    • Narrated by: Michael Kirby
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • After serving as a US Marine during World War II and attending college on the GI Bill, Sam Keith decided to seek adventure in Alaska as a laborer on the Adak Navy base....

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    • An Environmental History
    • By: Donald Edward Davis
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Before 1910 the American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern United States. An important natural resource, chestnut wood was preferred for woodworking, fencing, and building construction, as it was rot resistant and straight grained....

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    • My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier
    • By: Mark Adams
    • Narrated by: Mark Adams
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • From the acclaimed, best-selling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journey into Alaska, America's last frontier, retracing the historic 1899 Harriman Expedition....

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    • By: Stephen Moss
    • Narrated by: Stephen Moss
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. Naturalist and author Stephen Moss tells the gripping story of this long and intimate relationship through key species from all seven of the world’s continents....

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