Environment & Nature audiobooks

Seeds of Hope

By: Jane Goodall

Narrated by: Edita Brychta & Jane Goodall

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a fascinating examination of the critical role that trees and plants play in our world.

From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a fascinating examination of the critical role... Read more

Climate Change

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A UN report warns that the effects of climate change -- flood, drought and food shortages -- have already caused harm, and will worsen quickly if we don't take immediate action. Judy Woodruff takes a closer look at the global implications with two people who worked on the report: Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University and Patricia Romero... Read more

Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You

By: Dan Riskin, PhD

Narrated by: Dan Riskin

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin explains, it's also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our guide through the natural world at its most... Read more

Cathedral of the Wild

By: Boyd Varty

Narrated by: Boyd Varty

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is a gorgeous, lyrical, hilarious, important book. . . . Read this and you may find yourself instinctively beginning to heal old wounds: in yourself, in others, and just maybe in the cathedral of the wild that is our true home.”—Martha Beck, author of Finding Your Own North Star

Boyd Varty had an unconventional upbringing. He grew up on... Read more

Agriculture Course

By: Rudolf Steiner

Narrated by: Peter Bridgmont

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

When Rudolf Steiner gave these lectures 80 years ago, industrial farming was on the rise and organic methods were being replaced in the name of science, efficiency and technology. With the widespread alarm over the quality of food in recent years, and the growth of the organic movement and its mainstream acceptance, perceptions are changing. The... Read more

The Ogallala Road

By: Julene Bair

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A love affair unfolds as crisis hits a family farm on the High Plains.Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas' beautiful Smoky Valley. A single mother, she means to provide her son with the father he longs for and preserve the Bair farm for the next generation, honoring her own father's... Read more

Can the U.S. compel global collaboration?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The global approach to addressing climate change has shifted from putting the onus on wealthy countries, to recognizing that big, fast-growing developing countries must also play a big part in reducing emissions. Judy Woodruff talks to Andrew Steer of the World Resources Institute and Scott Barrett of Columbia University about ways countries... Read more

A Storm Too Soon

By: Michael J. Tougias

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, survival, and daring rescue from a master storytellerSeventy-foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out to sea in one of the world's most dangerous places, the Gulf Stream. Hanging on to the raft are three men, a Canadian, a Brit, and their captain, Jean Pierre de Lutz, a dual citizen... Read more

Beyond Magenta

By: Susan Kuklin

Narrated by: Tanya Eby, Nick Podehl, Todd Haberkorn, Roxanne...

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2015 Stonewall Honor BookA groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens.Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and... Read more

Edible

By: Daniella Martin

Narrated by: Daniella Martin

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Insects. They’re what’s for dinner. Can you imagine a world in which that simple statement is not only true but in fact an unremarkable part of daily life? Daniella Martin, entomophagist and blogger, can.In this rollicking excursion into the world of edible insects, Martin takes us to the front lines of the next big trend in the global food... Read more

Play Is More Than Just Fun

By: Stuart Brown, M.D.

Narrated by: Phil Cousineau

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Play is deeply embedded in our natures. It contributes to optimism and hope for the future. It enables us with the ability to persevere. Brown concludes, “Play is a fundamental survival drive of humanity without which long term survival of our species may be at stake.” He describes research showing that most sociopaths suffer from play... Read more

Designing with Nature In Mind

By: Sim Van der Ryn

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Van der Ryn has been leading the way for a more regenerative, resilient, and sustainable future as a pioneer of the green building movement. This movement emphasizes the value to our health and well-being of a direct connection to nature. Designing in collaboration with nature is a major tool toward creating a vital new architecture for an... Read more

The Forest Unseen

By: David George Haskell

Narrated by: Michael Healy

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window into the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life.



Each of this book's short chapters begins with a... Read more

Eating Local Food As An Act Of Belonging

By: Vicki Robin

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Robin shares how industrial agriculture has distanced us from the hands that grow and process our food. She explores why eating from your bioregion is good for you, good for your community, and good for the planet. As we commit, in some small way, to eating within a radius of where we live, we help turn the tide toward sustainable living and... Read more

Kakamega The Rainforest Story

By: Shirley Choi

Narrated by: Shirley Choi & Adrian da Silver

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Great fun story with catchy tunes and lyric to educate young children about the importance of conservation Read more

Beautiful Swimmers

By: William Warner

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

William Warner exhibits his skill as a naturalist and as a writer in this Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the pugnacious Atlantic blue crab and of its Chesapeake Bay territory. Penguin Nature Library. Read more

A Primate's Memoir

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa.



An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A... Read more

Living Up There

By: Jane Wodening

Narrated by: Jane Wodening

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"What I find so rare and immediate in this journal is the self-grown quality of the knowledge gained from the presented experience. How many of us live with this degree of attention to the events of our experience..." - Reed Bye, ForwardThis book is a series of short vignettes of a life lived in a way few human beings will ever know: in a tiny... Read more

Facing the Wave

By: Gretel Ehrlich

Narrated by: Sumalee Montano

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**
**Kansas City Star Best Books of the Year (2013)**

A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration... Read more

Arctic Thaw

By: Peter Lourie

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Travel north-beyond the Arctic Circle-to Barrow, Alaska, and meet the proud INupiaq people. For thousands of years they have hunted whales on the open sea, but now global climate change threatens their way of life. The whale hunt is about to begin, and you're invited to come along! Just as soon as the ice covering the ocean cracks apart, the... Read more

Get Big Fast and Do More Good

By: Ido Leffler & Lance Kalish

Narrated by: Nico Evers-Swindell

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Get Big Fast and Do More Good is a guide to modern entrepreneurship and accelerated brand-building from the founders of Yes To Inc, the company behind the breakthrough natural beauty brand Yes to Carrots.Ido Leffler and Lance Kalish, two 29-year-old Australians with very different backgrounds and skills, cofounded their company in 2006 with... Read more

Geology

By: Kate Zeigler

Narrated by: Kate Zeigler

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Geology is often thought of as simply the study of rocks. In reality, geology is the study of our planet on all scales, from microscopic to planet-wide, and ranging in time from almost instantaneous events, like earthquakes, to the glacially slow motion of the tectonic plates. Everything we know about our world from a geologic perspective is... Read more

The Gathering Wind

By: Gregory A. Freeman

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In October 2012, a replica of the famous HMS Bounty, an eighteenth-century tall sailing ship, was on a collision course with a storm that would become the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic—a clash that would prove dramatic, tragic, perplexing, and ultimately one of the most unforgettable stories of Superstorm Sandy.



Crewed by an... Read more

Becoming a Minimalist

By: Kimberly Wilson

Narrated by: Zehra Fazal

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

** Discover that having LESS is MORE... Get more freedom, more time, save money and more, by eliminating the excess in your life and focusing on the essentials. **Would you like to go to sleep at night knowing that your day was spent as you truly wanted to spend it? Would you like to feel sure that you didn’t waste time and energy on meaningless... Read more