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  • Escape from Overshoot Audiobook By Peter A. Victor cover art

    • Escape from Overshoot

    • Economics for a Planet in Peril
    • By: Peter A. Victor
    • Narrated by: Robert Lawrenson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Earth is in overshoot. The cumulative impact of eight billion humans, combined with the relentless pursuit of economic growth in the name of "progress", has stressed the planet beyond its limits. We must act now....

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  • Science Be Dammed Audiobook By Eric Kuhn, John Fleck cover art

    • Science Be Dammed

    • How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River
    • By: Eric Kuhn, John Fleck
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • Science Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management - and perils in the mismanagement - of water in the Western United States....

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  • Ten Billion Audiobook By Stephen Emmott cover art

    • Ten Billion

    • By: Stephen Emmott
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us. As the population continues to grow, our problems will increase....

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  • The Vertical Farm Audiobook By Dickson Despommier cover art

    • The Vertical Farm

    • Feeding the World in the 21st Century
    • By: Dickson Despommier
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up....

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  • The Japanese Invasion of Manchuria Audiobook By Charles River Editors cover art

    • The Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

    • The History of the Occupation of Northeastern China That Presaged World War II
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Though scarcely mentioned in the world of early 21st century politics, Manchuria represented a key region of Asia during the first half of the 20th century....

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  • Burn Audiobook By Albert Bates, Kathleen Draper cover art

    • Burn

    • Using Fire to Cool the Earth
    • By: Albert Bates, Kathleen Draper
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings

    • Burn looks beyond renewable biomass or carbon capture energy systems to offer a bigger and bolder vision for the next phase of human progress, moving carbon from wasted sources into soils and agricultural systems to rebalance the carbon, nitrogen, and related cycles....

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  • Troubled Water Audiobook By Seth M. Siegel cover art

    • Troubled Water

    • 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 60 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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  • This Contested Land Audiobook By McKenzie Long cover art

    • This Contested Land

    • The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments
    • By: McKenzie Long
    • Narrated by: McKenzie Long
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • One woman's enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments....

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  • A Thirsty Land Audiobook By Seamus McGraw cover art

    • A Thirsty Land

    • The Making of an American Water Crisis
    • By: Seamus McGraw
    • Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • As a changing climate threatens the whole country with deeper droughts and more furious floods that put ever more people and property at risk, Texas has become a bellwether state for water debates. Will there be enough water for everyone? Is there the will to take the steps necessary to defend ourselves against the sea....

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  • Sustainability Audiobook By Kent E. Portney cover art

    • Sustainability

    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Kent E. Portney
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • In this accessible guide to the meanings of sustainability, Kent Portney describes the evolution of the idea and examines its application in a variety of contemporary contexts....

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  • Land Is a Big Deal Audiobook By Lars A. Doucet cover art

    • Land Is a Big Deal

    • Why Rent Is Too High, Wages Too Low, and What We Can Do about It
    • By: Lars A. Doucet
    • Narrated by: Lars A. Doucet
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • Land and the policies that govern it hold an incredible but largely forgotten power over our lives. When land is wasted and squandered, we get sky-high rents, oppressed workers, ruined businesses, depleted natural resources, a polluted earth, and an impoverished society....

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  • History for Tomorrow Audiobook By Roman Krznaric cover art

    • History for Tomorrow

    • Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity
    • By: Roman Krznaric
    • Narrated by: Roman Krznaric
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Here, leading social philosopher Roman Krznaric unearths fascinating insights and inspiration from the last 1000 years of world history that could help us confront the most urgent challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

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  • Who Owns the Moon? Audiobook By A.C. Grayling cover art

    • Who Owns the Moon?

    • In Defense of Humanity's Common Interests in Space
    • By: A.C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Kris Dyer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world's superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars.

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  • The Age of Resilience Audiobook By Jeremy Rifkin cover art

    • The Age of Resilience

    • Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth
    • By: Jeremy Rifkin
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

    • The viruses keep coming, the climate is warming, and the Earth is rewilding....

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  • World on the Edge Audiobook By Lester R. Brown cover art

    • World on the Edge

    • How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse
    • By: Lester R. Brown
    • Narrated by: Alan Robertson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now....

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  • Blood Oil Audiobook By Leif Wenar cover art

    • Blood Oil

    • Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World
    • By: Leif Wenar
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Natural resources empower the world's most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression....

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  • Rainwater Harvesting Made Easy Audiobook By Perennial Publishing cover art

    • Rainwater Harvesting Made Easy

    • A Beginner's Guide to Build and Maintain Your Own Sustainable Clean Water System for Your Urban Home, Rural Farm, or Homestead
    • By: Perennial Publishing
    • Narrated by: Warren Sandwell
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings

    • Did you know that in the United States alone, an estimated 345 billion gallons of water are used daily? This shouldn’t be surprising–we live in a world of consumerism, and unfortunately, this even correlates to how we use natural resources like electricity and water....

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  • Cape Cod Bay: A History of Salt & Sea Audiobook By Theresa Mitchell Barbo, Richard G. Gurnon - foreword cover art

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  • Crossed Wires Audiobook By Dan Schiller cover art

    • Crossed Wires

    • The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, from the Post Office to the Internet
    • By: Dan Schiller
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 32 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
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    • Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on United States telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States...

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  • The Nature of Tomorrow Audiobook By Michael Rawson cover art

    • The Nature of Tomorrow

    • A History of the Environmental Future
    • By: Michael Rawson
    • Narrated by: BJ Harrison
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
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    • For centuries, the West has produced stories about the future in which humans use advanced science and technology to transform the Earth....

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