The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

Getting Green Done: Hard Truths From the Frontlines of Sustainability Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Auden Schendler
• Narrated By Walter Dixon

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?

Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Richard Heinberg
• Narrated By Edward Dalmas

Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological and practical changes we will have to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. This latest book from Richard Heinberg, author of three of the most important books on Peak Oil, touches on the most important aspects of the human condition at this unique moment in time.

A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book tells how we might make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty with grace and satisfaction....

Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 28 mins)
• By James Hansen
• Narrated By John Allen Nelson

In Storms of My Grandchildren, James Hansen - the nation's leading scientist on climate issues - speaks out for the first time with the full truth about global warming: the planet is hurtling even more rapidly than previously acknowledged to a climatic point of no return. Although Hansen was Al Gore's science adviser for the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, his recent data shows that our situation is even more dire today.

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 38 mins)
• By James Lovelock
• Narrated By Simon Vance

In The Vanishing Face of Gaia, British scientist James Lovelock predicts global warming will lead to a Hot Epoch. Lovelock is best known for formulating the controversial Gaia theory in the 1970s, with Ruth Margulis of the University of Massachusetts, which states that organisms interact with and regulate Earth's surface and atmosphere. We ignore this interaction at our peril.

Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Andres R. Edwards
• Narrated By Dave Adams
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Every 15 seconds, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day, we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million tons of carbon dioxide into an already warming atmosphere. But against this bleak backdrop, beacons of hope shine from thousands of large and small initiatives. Thriving Beyond Sustainability draws a collective map of individuals, organizations, and communities that are committed to building an alternative future.