Sustainability

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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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    • The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
    • By: Tatiana Schlossberg
    • Narrated by: Tatiana Schlossberg
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • With urgency and wit, Tatiana Schlossberg explains that far from being only a distant problem of the natural world created by the fossil fuel industry, climate change is all around us, all the time, lurking everywhere in our convenience-driven society, all without our realizing it....

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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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    • How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse
    • By: David Owen
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent lightbulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've been told about being green is wrong....

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    • The New Economics of True Wealth
    • By: Juliet B. Schor
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Plenitude, economist and bestselling author Juliet B. Schor offers a groundbreaking intellectual statement about the economics and sociology of ecological decline....

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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 1,584 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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    • A History
    • By: Jeremy L. Caradonna
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Caradonna's unique and concise history broadens our understanding of what "sustainability" means, revealing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept....

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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 857 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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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Paul B. Thompson, Patricia E. Norris
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • While politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of them, and many of us, may struggle to define the term, let alone trace its history....

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    • Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
    • By: David R. Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • The problem of agriculture is as old as civilization. Throughout history, great societies that abused their land withered into poverty or disappeared entirely....

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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 997 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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    • 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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    • A Five-Step Process to Design and Develop Land (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
    • By: Rob Avis, Takota Coen, Michelle Avis
    • Narrated by: Adam Farnsworth
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome overwhelm in the complex process of resilient land design....

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    • By: Satyajit Das
    • Narrated by: Satyajit Das
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The global economy is entering an era of protracted stagnation, similar to what Japan has experienced for over a decade....

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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 27 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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    • How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food
    • By: Ben Hewitt
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • Over the past several years, Hardwick, Vermont, a typical hardscrabble farming community of three thousand residents, has jump-started its economy and redefined its self-image through a local, self-sustaining food system.....

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