Environment & Nature audiobooks

Bioneers Series 3-06: Actual Perils Of Genetically Modified Organisms

By: Elaine Ingham, Michael Pollan & Peter Montague

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Master soil scientist Elaine Ingham describes a genetically modified organism she discovered in her screening work that, if released, could have devastated global plant life. Writer Michael Pollan probes issues from food safety to the evolutionary significance of the power to genetically modify life, and Peter Montague reports on grassroots... Read more

Shark Trouble - Abridged

By: Peter Benchley

Narrated by: Peter Benchley

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Drawing on more than three decades of experience writing about sharks and other marine animals, the bestselling author of Jaws combines high adventure with practical information in a book that is at once a thriller and a valuable guide to being safe in, on, under, and around the sea.

“Shark attacks on human beings generate a tremendous amount... Read more

Bioneers Series 1-04: The Original Instructions: It's All Related

By: Oren Lyons, Rebecca Adamson, Katsi Cook, Malcol...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What were the Original Instructions that tribal communities lived by for the vast majority of human existence? Native leaders Oren Lyons, Rebecca Adamson, Katsi Cook, Melissa Nelson, and writer Malcolm Margolin invoke the Original Instructions. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-01: Working with Nature to Heal Nature

By: Kenny Ausubel, Nina Simons, Amory Lovins, Anna ...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature" introduces us to the past half-century's most visionary designers, practitioners and pioneers of sustainable living. Inspired by the philosophies of the Deep Ecology movement, the Bioneers are heroic examples of people living as if nature mattered. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-02: Climate Change and the Next Industrial Revolution

By: Bill McKibben & Amory Lovins

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Author and climate change expert Bill McKibben takes us into the unstable future that is already showing itself. Amory Lovins presents inspiring industrial design innovations that are capable of shrinking human impacts on the biosphere by over 90%. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-03: Natural Capitalism and Green Design

By: Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins & Will...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What would life be like if the monetary value of Gaia's services such as pollination, oxygen production, and soil fertility were taken into account? Paul Hawken, Amory and Hunter Lovins and William McDonough highlight existing methods and emerging solutions which are transforming commerce toward ecological principles. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-05: Quantum Jazz: It's All Connected

By: Mae Won Ho, Fritjof Capra & John Mohawk, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Biochemist Mae Won Ho, physicist Fritjof Capra, and John Mohawk discuss an organic revolution that is emerging in the field of science that spells good news for the Earth. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-06: Bioremediation: In Nature, Everybody is Somebody's Lunch

By: Dan Dagget, Paul Stamets & John Todd

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bioneers Dan Dagget, Paul Stamets, and John Todd show how cows, mushrooms, fungi and "living machines," are being used to restore Superfund sites, "eat" diesel spills and decontaminate soil and water. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-07: Wise Women of the Earth: It's All Intelligent

By: Nina Simons, Katsi Cook, Kirstin Wilson, Marta ...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this program we explore the restoration of the feminine and the feminization of the restoration, with a dance, a Mam'on, a meditation, and a prayer with Nina Simons, Katsi Cook, Starhawk, Terry Tempest Williams, Marta Benevides, and Kirstin Wilson. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-08: Genetic Engineering or Genetic Roulette?

By: Kenny Ausubel, Andrew Kimbrell & Luke Anderson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What lies behind the fascination to tinker with the building blocks of life? Kenny Ausubel and Andrew Kimbrell shed light on the disturbing genetic engineering debate, and activist Luke Anderson reports from the successful campaign that has derailed the spread of "biological pollution" in Great Britain and Europe. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-09: Biodynamic Growing: Sacred Cows and Cosmic Science

By: Hugh Lovel, Peter Proctor & Fred Kirschenmann

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Industrial agriculture is the single most destructive human activity against the environment. Hugh Lovel, Peter Proctor and Fred Kirschenmann present an amazing approach to agriculture, stemming from the ideas of Rudolf Steiner, Founder of Waldorf Education, which grows nutritious foods and restores land and water. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-10: World Trade with a Human Face

By: Anita Roddick, David Korten & Kevin Danaher, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Alert to the human rights violations and ecological damage being sown by the "Economization of the Globe," Anita Roddick, David Korten and Kevin Danaher are working not just to slow the corporate limousine down, or change its color to green, but to pull up the pavement it is running on. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-11: Environmental Health and the Politics of Cancer-

By: Kenny Ausubel & Samuel Epstein, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

While the medical establishment has been losing the celebrated war on cancer, it has conducted a very successful campaign against promising alternative approaches. Kenny Ausubel and Samuel Epstein, M.D. present one of the greatest scandals of the 20th century and call attention to the rising tide of alternative approaches. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-12: Wisdom at the End of a Hoe: Farming as if Biology Mattered

By: John Jeavons, Starhawk, Bob Cannard, Catherine ...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

What is it like living at a planet's pace? Is the gardener growing the garden or is the garden transforming the gardener? John Jeavons, Starhawk, Catherine Sneed, Bob Cannard and Penny Livingston point to genuine solutions for farming harmony with the earth. Read more

Bioneers Series 1-13: Overview: Bioneers-Creating New Solutions

By: Paul Hawken, Fritjof Capra, Amory Lovins, Ana E...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Bioneers recognize that technical solutions to the ecological challenges we face must be accomplished by a change of heart. Read more

The Power Of One: Making Choices For A Better World

By: Julia Butterfly Hill

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this moving dialogue, Julia speaks about her heart-wrenching experiences in the redwood tree she named Luna, and the work she has been doing since she ended her tree sit.  Julia continues to speak out for the Earth, and acknowledges how easily we can become overwhelmed by the problems of the world. Read more

Last Train to Paradise

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: Del Roy

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores.

In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D.... Read more

Tying Down the Wind

By: Eric Pinder

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Where can you find the worst weather on earth? The surprising answer in Tying Down the Wind is: everywhere. You don’t need to climb Mount Everest or voyage to the icy desert of Antarctica to witness both the beauty and the destructiveness of weather. The same forces are at work in your own backyard.Eric Pinder, certified observer at Mount... Read more

The 1960'S Live On In The 21St Century

By: James Fadiman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dynamic conversation, James Fadiman revisits that seminal moment in our history, and talks about the power and impact of the sixties and why the decade was so important. "Most of everything that we're doing that we're proud of today - the ecology movement, civil rights, and alternative medicine, feminism and more began then. Without... Read more

Shark Trouble

By: Peter Benchley

Narrated by: Peter Benchley

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on more than three decades of experience writing about sharks and other marine animals, the bestselling author of Jaws combines high adventure with practical information in a book that is at once a thriller and a valuable guide to being safe in, on, under, and around the sea.

“Shark attacks on human beings generate a tremendous... Read more

Diamond - Abridged

By: Matthew Hart

Narrated by: Daniel Gerroll

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On a hot morning in May 1999, three Brazilian garimpeiros(small-scale miners) found a large pink diamond in the muddy waters of the Abaete River, a discovery that captivated the diamond trade. Beginning with this dramatic and revealing story, Matthew Hart takes readers on a journey far beyond the window at Tiffany's, into an obsessive, largely... Read more

Journey Into Wisdom

By: Pramila Jayapal

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

India, an ancient culture, has many gifts to share with the western world.  Pramila Jayapal, is an Indian-born, Western educated woman, banker turned community activist, who returns to India to explore the complex issues of progress and development, immersing herself in the life of her native land. Read more

Close to Shore - Abridged

By: Michael Capuzzo

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.

In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual... Read more

Engaging Creativity / Riding Change

By: David La Chapelle

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

David La Chapelle, an environmental writer and leader of over 150 Wilderness Quests, weaves together insights integrating psychology, meditation, storytelling and the creative process in considering the challenges we face today. Read more