Sustainability

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 72 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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 28 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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    • Economic Solutions for a Planet in Crisis
    • By: Tom Rand
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Rejecting the old Left/Right ideologies, Rand develops a more pragmatic view capable of delivering practical solutions to this critical problem. A renewed capitalism harnessed to the task is the only way we might replace fossil fuels fast enough to mitigate severe climate risk....

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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 GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do About It
    • By: Dirk Philipsen
    • Narrated by: Peter Larkin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Little Big Number explores a possible road map for a future that advances quality of life rather than indiscriminate growth....

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    • Embracing Brand Citizenship to Fuel Both Purpose and Profit
    • By: Anne Bahr Thompson
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Good works are no longer optional. For many businesses, success comes in unexpected ways. Toms grew into a $600-million company by giving away 35 million pair of shoes....

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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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    • The Case for Sustainable Meat Production
    • By: Nicolette Hahn Niman
    • Narrated by: Nicolette Hahn Niman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • For decades, it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists and health advocates that cattle and beef are public enemy number one. But is the matter really so clear? Hardly, argues environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman in her new book, Defending Beef....

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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 1,310 ratings
    • Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian....

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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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