Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations

Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Barry Estabrook
• Narrated By Pete Larkin
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Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, The Price of Tomatoes, investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue.

The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Brian Fagan
• Narrated By Tavia Gilbert
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The history of the Great Warming of a half millennium ago suggests that we may yet be underestimating the power of climate change to disrupt our lives todayand our vulnerability to drought, writes Fagan, is the silent elephant in the room.

The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 1 min)
• By Lierre Keith
• Narrated By Joyce Bean
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We’ve been told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in The Vegetarian Myth, she argues that we’ve been led astray - not by our longings for a just and sustainable world, but by our ignorance. e truth is that agriculture is a relentless assault against the planet, and more of the same won’t save us. In service to annual grains, humans have devastated prairies and forests, driven countless species extinct, altered the climate, and destroyed the topsoil - the basis of life itself....

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....

Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Brian Fagan
• Narrated By James Langton

Elixir spans five thousand years, from the beginnings of civilization to the parched American Sun Belt of today. It is a story of human endeavor: our present-day interaction with this most essential resource has deep roots in the remote past, and every human culture has been shaped by its relationship to water.