Environment & Nature audiobooks

How to Do Things

By: William Campbell

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren & Peter Ganim

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

How to Do Things is a fascinating window into life in early 20th century

America, and was the first book to collect centuries of practical information, neighborly wisdom, and generational knowledge and compile it into one comprehensive volume. Read more

New Slow City

By: William Powers

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent... Read more

Twelve by Twelve

By: William Powers

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Why would a successful American physician choose to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or electricity? To find out, writer and activist William Powers visited Dr. Jackie Benton in rural North Carolina. No Name Creek gurgled through Benton’s permaculture farm, and she stroked honeybees’ wings as she shared her... Read more

Reforesting Faith

By: Matthew Sleeth

Narrated by: Matthew Sleeth

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This groundbreaking walk through Scripture by former physician and carpenter Dr. Matthew Sleeth makes the convincing case that trees reveal more about God and faith than you ever imagined. 

“Christians looking to reconnect to the natural world will relish Sleeth’s passionate call to Christian stewardship of the Earth.”—Publishers Weekly

Fifteen... Read more

Dispatches from the Sweet Life

By: William Powers

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Many fantasize about dramatically changing their lives — living in accordance with their ideals rather than the exigencies of job, bills, and possessions. William Powers actually does it. In his book Twelve by Twelve, Powers lived in an off-grid tiny house in rural North Carolina. In New Slow City, he and his wife, Melissa, inhabited a Manhattan... Read more

Mid-Course Correction Revisited

By: Ray Anderson & John A. Lanier

Narrated by: John A. Lanier

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The original Mid-Course Correction, published 20 years ago, became a classic in the sustainability field. It put forth a new vision for what its author, Ray C. Anderson, called the “prototypical company of the 21st century”—a restorative company that does no harm to society or the environment. In it Anderson recounts his eureka moment as founder... Read more

Losing Earth

By: Nathaniel Rich

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is an important, infuriating, enlightening, engaging, and engrossing audiobook...Anyone wishing to learn how the world has gotten to the point of almost inevitable climate disaster will be well served by listening to Godfrey's measured but emphatic reading." — AudioFile Magazine

By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today... Read more

Mrs Moreau's Warbler

By: Stephen Moss

Narrated by: Stephen Moss

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Swallow and starling, puffin and peregrine, blue tit and blackcap. We use these names so often that few of us ever pause to wonder about their origins. What do they mean? Where did they come from? And who created them? The words we use to name birds are some of the most lyrical and evocative in the English language. They also tell incredible... Read more

As Long as Grass Grows

By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism

Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty... Read more

Urban Forests

By: Jill Jonnes

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

As nature's largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cities; they are living landmarks that define space, cool the air, soothe our psyches, and connect us to nature and our past. Today, four-fifths of Americans live in or near urban areas, surrounded by millions of trees of hundreds of different... Read more

Don't Let Them Disappear

By: Chelsea Clinton

Narrated by: Chelsea Clinton

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted comes a beautiful book about the animals who share our planet--and what we can do to help them survive.

Did you know that blue whales are the largest animals in the world? Or that sea otters wash their paws after every meal? The world is filled with millions of animal species, and... Read more

Wild at Heart

By: Alice Outwater

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Through a narrative that roams in unexpected directions through surprising details and history, then periodically grounds itself by looping back to her own family before it soars off again, Alice Outwater’s infectiously readable Wild at Heart captures the essence of ecology: Everything is connected, and every connection leads to ourselves."... Read more

How to Know the Birds

By: Ted Floyd

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Become a better birder with brief portraits of 200 top North American birds. This friendly, relatable book is a celebration of the art, science, and delights of bird-watching. How to Know the Birds introduces a new, holistic approach to bird-watching, by noting how behaviors, settings, and seasonal cycles connect with shape, song, color, gender,... Read more

Plant Spirit Medicine

By: Eliot Cowan

Narrated by: Paul Brion

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether you live in a mountain cabin or a city loft, plant spirits present themselves to us everywhere. Since its first edition in 1995, Plant Spirit Medicine has passed among countless readers drawn to indigenous spirituality and all things alive and green. In this updated edition, Eliot Cowan invites us to discover the healing power of... Read more

Waldspaziergang: Naturgeräusche und Meditationen (ohne Musik) zur Entspannung von Körper und Geist

By: Patrick Lynen

Narrated by: Patrick Lynen

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Waldspaziergang: Hängematte für die Seele - Naturgeräusche und Meditationen (ohne Musik) zur Entspannung von Körper und Geist Die Natur hat eine ganz erstaunliche Wirkung auf unseren Körper. Sie bringt uns zur Ruhe, löst uns aus den Grübelzwängen des Alltags, hilft uns endlich loszulassen. Naturgeräusche können Empfindungen auslösen, die... Read more

Calming Songbirds: Nature Sounds Recording Of Bird Calls - A songbird concert for Meditation, Relaxation and Creating a Soothing Atmosphere

By: Yella A. Deeken

Narrated by: Ian Brannan

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Calming Songbirds - A Hammock for the Soul Birds have always fascinated mankind. With this audiobook, experience the power of nature like on a dreamlike vacation. Over 3 hours of bird calls, recorded all over the world. Using state-of-the-art recording technology, with extremely high fidelity, and the best spatial atmosphere. Gentle to... Read more

Shucked

By: Erin Byers Murray

Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Buford's Heat meets Phoebe Damrosch's Service Included in this unique blend of personal narrative, food miscellany, and history



In March of 2009, Erin Byers Murray ditched her pampered city girl lifestyle and convinced the rowdy and mostly male crew at Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury, Massachusetts, to let a completely unprepared,... Read more

The Big Necessity

By: Rose George

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"One smart book . . . delving deep into the history and implications of a daily act that dare not speak its name." —NewsweekAcclaimed as "extraordinary" (The New York Times) and "a classic" (Los Angeles Times), The Big Necessity is on its way to removing the taboo on bodily waste—something common to all and as natural as breathing. We prefer not... Read more

Living with a Green Heart

By: Gay Browne

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

With a brand-new approach to environmental responsibility, environmental expert and publisher of the bestselling Greentopia Guides, Gay Browne offers small and simple changes we can make that will have a huge impact on the environment and our health. In an increasingly toxic world, the paths to environmental safety and personal well-being run... Read more

Trees of Power

By: Akiva Silver

Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The organic grower's guide to planting, propagation, culture, and ecology Trees are our allies in healing the world. Partnering with trees allows us to build soil, enhance biodiversity, increase wildlife populations, grow food and medicine, and pull carbon out of the atmosphere, sequestering it in the soil. Trees of Power explains how we can... Read more

Downriver

By: Heather Hansman

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some of the most significant natural gas fields in the country, as it provides water for 33 million... Read more

Animal Music / Tiermusik: Team of Jeremy Roht

By: Oswald Wiener & Helmut Schoener

Narrated by: Team of Jeremy

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Tiermusik: Gibt es über den blinden Trieb von Hunger, Angst und Fortpflanzung hinaus eine Lust des Animalischen am eigenen Laut? Ein Lautwerden im Dienst des Ästhetischen? Hört man Oswald Wieners Feldaufnahmen der nächtlichen Klagegesänge kanadischer Schlittenhunde (Wiener baute dazu eigens einen Recorder, der auch bei extremen Außentemperaturen... Read more

A favor de los toros

By: Jesús Mosterín

Narrated by: Juan Magraner

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A favor de los animales y en contra de las corridas de toros. Una crítica feroz de la tauromaquia hecha por un gran filósofo. Grabado en español ibérico (España). Read more

The Eye of the Elephant

By: Mark Owens & Delia Owens

Narrated by: Donna Postel & Sean Runnette

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The authors of Secrets of the Sahara battle the elephant poachers of Zambia in this "exciting . . . part adventure story, part wildlife tale" (The Boston Globe).



Intelligent, majestic, and loyal, with lifespans matching our own, elephants are among the greatest of the wonders gracing the African wilds. Yet, in the 1970s and 1980s, about a... Read more