Sustainability

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    • What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
    • By: Amanda Little
    • Narrated by: Amanda Little
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • In the fascinating story of the sustainable food revolution, an environmental journalist and professor asks the question: Is the future of food looking bleak - or better than ever? Climate models show that global crop production will decline every decade for the rest of this century....

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    • Hard Truths From the Frontlines of Sustainability Revolution
    • By: Auden Schendler
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Soccer moms drive Priuses. Sport utility vehicles are going hybrid. Families are using hemp shopping bags. More and more companies are developing "green" buildings....

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    • By: Adam Rome, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Adam Rome
    • Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • We’ve been celebrating Earth Day for 50 years now, but even the most ardent activists of today would have a hard time picturing the intensity and excitement that the first Earth Day in 1970 brought....

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    • A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming
    • By: Jean-Martin Fortier
    • Narrated by: Diego Footer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 355 ratings
    • The Market Gardener is a compendium of proven horticultural techniques and innovative growing methods....

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    • Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America
    • By: Liz Carlisle
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • The story of the "Lentil Underground" begins on a 280-acre homestead rooted in America's Great Plains: the Oien family farm. Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness threatened these small farmers....

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    • Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
    • By: Rebecca Burgess
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear - by a leader in the movement for local textile economies....

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    • Working with Nature to Build Soil Health (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
    • By: Robert Pavlis
    • Narrated by: David Skulski
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Soil Science for Gardeners is an accessible, science-based guide to understanding soil fertility and, in particular, the rhizosphere - the thin layer of liquid and soil surrounding plant roots, so vital to plant health....

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    • The Erosion of Civilizations
    • By: David R. Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • Dirt, soil, call it what you want, it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times....

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    • 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 113 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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    • How the Modern World Was Made
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization - in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics - that have transformed the way we live....

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    • 15 Proven Plans for Market Farms on 5 Acres or Less
    • By: Josh Volk, Michael Ableman - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Compact Farms is a guide for anyone dreaming of starting, expanding, or perfecting a profitable farming enterprise on five acres or less. The farm plans explain how to harness an area's water supply, orientation, and geography in order to maximize efficiency and productivity....

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    • By: Jonathan Safran Foer
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,311 ratings
    • Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian....

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    • And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
    • By: Judith D. Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Judith D. Schwartz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems there are positive, alternative scenarios....

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    • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 999 ratings
    • An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....

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    • Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
    • By: Daniel Yergin
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 29 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 898 ratings
    • In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them....

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    • Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 858 ratings
    • An incisive portrait of the two little-known 20th-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment.....

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    • Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America
    • By: Thomas L. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 20 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,128 ratings
    • Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy....

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    • How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity
    • By: Joseph G. Allen, John D. Macomber
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • From our offices and homes to schools, hospitals, and restaurants, the indoor spaces where we work, learn, play, eat, and heal have an outsized impact on our performance and well-being....

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    • How Growing Our Newest Cash Crop Can Improve Our Health, Clean Our Environment, and Slow Climate Change
    • By: Jen Hobbs
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Melanie Carey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • American Hemp lays out where we are as a nation on expanding this entirely new (yet ancient) domestic industry while optimistically reasoning that by sowing hemp, we can grow a better future and save the planet in the process....

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