Environment & Nature audiobooks

The Great Turning Or The Great Unraveling: It's Our Choice

By: Joanna Macy

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Macy inspires us to strengthen our capacity to face the planetary crisis with hope for the future. She’s co-author of Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In without Going Crazy. Read more

Global Weirdness

By: Climate Central

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Produced by Climate Central—a highly regarded independent, nonprofit journalism and research organization founded in 2008—and reviewed by scientists at major educational and research institutions the world over, Global Weirdness summarizes, in clear and accessible prose, everything we already know about the science of climate change; explains... Read more

Climate Change Strikes

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

On Thursday’s NewsHour, NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan moderated a panel discussion on how Native American tribes are coping with climate change.The panel included four native leaders representing their communities at the First Stewards symposium: Jeff Mears – Oneida tribe, Wisconsin, Environmental Area Manager Micah McCarty – Makah... Read more

It's Not Rocket Science

By: Ben Miller

Narrated by: Ben Miller

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Top Ten Bestseller

Black holes. DNA. The Large Hadron Collider. Ever had that sneaking feeling that you are missing out on some truly spectacular science?

You do? Well, fear not, for help is at hand.

Ben Miller was working on his Physics PhD at Cambridge when he accidentally became a comedian. But first love runs deep, and he has returned to... Read more

Gifts of the Crow

By: Tony Angell & John Marzluff

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New research indicates that crows are among the brightest animals in the world. And professor of Wildlife Science at the University of Washington John Marzluff has done some of the most extraordinary research on crows, which has been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic, and the Chicago Tribune, as well as on NPR and PBS. Now he... Read more

How to Think Seriously about the Planet

By: Roger Scruton

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the overexploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution. In How to Think Seriously about the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects... Read more

Cat Daddy

By: Joel Derfner & Jackson Galaxy

Narrated by: Jackson Galaxy

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Cat behaviorist and star of Animal Planet's hit television show My Cat from Hell, Jackson Galaxy, a.k.a. "Cat Daddy," isn't what you might expect for a cat expert (as the New York Times noted, with his goatee and tattoos he "looks like a Hell's Angel"). Yet Galaxy's ability to connect with even the most troubled felines—not to mention the... Read more

Love, Life, and Elephants

By: Daphne Sheldrick

Narrated by: Virginia McKenna

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya's rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting the right husbandry and milk formula have saved countless... Read more

The Earth Moved

By: Amy Stewart

Narrated by: Heather Henderson

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

They destroy plant diseases. They break down toxins. They plough the earth. They transform forests. They’ve survived two mass extinctions, including the one that wiped out the dinosaur. Not bad for a creature that’s deaf, blind, and spineless. Who knew that earthworms were one of our planet’s most important caretakers? Or that Charles Darwin... Read more

Travels in Alaska

By: John Muir

Narrated by: Noah Waterman

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half poet and half geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections in Travels in Alaska, a work he was in the process... Read more

The Conundrum

By: David Owen

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent lightbulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: everything you've been told about being green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car is a dangerous fantasy. We are consumers, and we like to consume greenly and efficiently. But David Owen argues that our best intentions are still at... Read more

The Finest Hours

By: Michael J. Tougias & Casey Sherman

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor’easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril, setting the stage for one of the most heroic rescue stories ever lived.On February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer,... Read more

The Great Animal Orchestra

By: Bernie Krause

Narrated by: Bernie Krause

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his life discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world's honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where natural soundscapes exist virtually unchanged... Read more

The Monkey Wrench Gang

By: Edward Abbey

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power—taking on the... Read more

The Vegetarian Myth

By: Lierre Keith

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

We’ve been told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in The Vegetarian Myth, she argues that we’ve been led astray - not by our longings for a just and sustainable world, but by our ignorance.The truth is that... Read more

Wisdom, the Midway Albatross

By: Darcy Pattison

Narrated by: Greg Robinson

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Survival! The oldest bird in the world had survived plastic pollution, longline fishing, and lead poisoning. But in 2011, she faced one of her hardest challenges: the Japanese tsunami.
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake struck off the shore of Japan sending a tsunami wave west to overrun Tōhoku, Japan. It killed thousands and destroyed a nuclear... Read more

Getting To Zero

By: Sarah Woods

Narrated by: Don Gilet, Janice Acquah, Jonathan Tafler, Kate...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

With George Monbiot, Paul Allen and Peter Harper. Have you got what it takes to get to zero carbon? Our expert panel set one average family the task of eliminating their carbon footprint... and living with the consequences. Originally broadcast in March 2009. Starring Kate Ashfield, Don Gilet, Poppy Lee Friar, Ryan Watson, Malcolm Tierney,... Read more

Fatal Flaws

By: Hank Hanegraaff

Narrated by: Hank Hanegraaff

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Materials drawn from The Face That Demonstrates The Farce of Evolution (ISBN 0-8499-4272-1) Today's generation is bombarded with theories about humankind and its origins. The danger for Christians lies in the wealth of misinformation and miscommunication about simple biblical truths such as: (1) How and when the world began, (2) Whether humans... Read more

Nature As Guide in Perilous Times

By: Osprey Orielle Lake

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Lake offers a frank inquiry into the causes leading to our current global peril and provides a deep well of hope and profound insight. She regales us with many stories of her adventures in nature including taking inner city young people to the desert where, for the first time in their lives, they experienced the full measure of the night sky... Read more

Desert Solitaire

By: Edward Abbey

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road, and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the... Read more

The Great Disruption

By: Paul Gilding

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul
Gilding. We need instead to brace for impact because global crisis is no longer avoidable. This Great Disruption started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological changes, such as the melting ice caps. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon... Read more

Trashing the Planet

By: Dixy Lee Ray

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Trashing the Planet is the one book you need to get a commonsense grasp on the contentious issues of environmentalism, where science and politics overlap and well-meaning idealism turns to counterproductive ecoterrorism. Dixy Lee Ray, a marine biologist and former chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, calls for environmentalists to regain a... Read more

Plastic Ocean

By: Capt. Charles Moore & Cassandra Phillips

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu with the sole intention of returning home after competing in a trans-Pacific race. To get to California, he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a vast "oceanic desert" where winds are slack and sailing ships languish. There, Moore... Read more

Creating The New Dream and The New Future Of The Earth

By: Elisabeth Sahtouris, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Biologist Sahtouris is optimistic about the future and points to biology saying, “Life gets creative in a time of crisis.” She explains how the survival of bacteria, which have been on the planet for over four billion years, has given us a model of how we may evolve into a mature species. She’s co-author, with the late Willis Harman, of Biology... Read more