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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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    • 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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    • Capitalism vs. the Climate
    • By: Naomi Klein
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,586 ratings
    • In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care....

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    • Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028 and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
    • By: Jeremy Rifkin
    • Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • An urgent, workable plan to confront climate change and transform America's economy for a post-fossil fuel world....

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    • An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science
    • By: Clair Brown PhD
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Traditional economics measures the ways in which we spend our income, but doesn't attribute worth to the crucial human interactions that give our lives meaning....

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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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    • The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Farm
    • By: Forrest Pritchard, Ellen Polishuk
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies, Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • Do you dream of starting your own farm but wonder where to begin? Or do you already have a farm but wish to become more sustainable to compete in today's market? Start Your Farm, the first comprehensive business guide of its kind, covers these essential questions and more....

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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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    • 101 Steps to Making Better Places
    • By: Jeff Speck
    • Narrated by: Jeff Speck
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his best-selling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now....

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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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    • 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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    • The Organic Grower's Guide to Mycorrhizae (Science for Gardeners, Book 6)
    • By: Jeff Lowenfels
    • Narrated by: Lane Hakel
    • Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Almost every plant in a garden forms a relationship with fungi, and many plants would not exist without their fungal partners. By better understanding this relationship, home gardeners can take advantage of the benefits of fungi....

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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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    • By: Theresa Husarik
    • Narrated by: Brett Barry
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Do you long for the country life? Hobby Farming For Dummies is a practical guide that will show you how to handle all the basics of small-scale farming....

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    • What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability
    • By: David Owen
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is New York City....

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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 859 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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    • 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 998 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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    • By: Michael E. Webber
    • Narrated by: Tom Pile
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Although it is widely understood that energy and water are the world’s two most critical resources, their vital interconnections and vulnerabilities are less often recognized. This farsighted audiobook offers a new, holistic way of thinking about energy and water....

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