Environment & Nature audiobooks

Best Friends

By: Samantha Glen

Narrated by: Juliette Parker

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover a place where every animal is safe, loved, and allowed to live out its natural life. Here is the inspiring true story of Best Friends, an animal sanctuary a few dedicated people made happen, and thousands of furry and feathered friends have called home. Meet the residents, including Sinjin, the badly burned black cat, and Sparkles, the... Read more

In the Heart of the Sea

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard.

Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson star in a film based on this National Book Award–winning account of the true events behind... Read more

In the Heart of the Sea - Abridged

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard

Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson star in the film based on this National Book Award–winning account of the true events behind Moby Dick.

In 1820, the... Read more

Earth Wisdom

By: Brooke Medicine Eagle

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ancient, yet new and practical ways of living in harmony with Earth's rhythms provide the focus here with Brooke Medicine Eagle, an American native Earthkeeper, teacher, healer, songwriter, ceremonial leader and sacred ecologist. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-04: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

By: Janine M. Benyus

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Leaders in the fields of agriculture, architecture, the arts, design, physics, engineering, theology, ecology and economics are rediscovering the genius of nature. And it's the genius of nature, they say, that just might save us. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Alive

By: John Mohawk, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a culture built on the infallibility of the rational mind perceive the sacred? Turtle Clan Seneca, John Mohawk, educator and traditional native farmer, is a Bioneer whose work it is to heal the artificial split between spirit and nature, mind and matter, creation and creator. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-12: The Age of Extinction and the Emerging Environmental Health Movement

By: Michael Lerner

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Who doesn't know someone touched by the nightmare of cancer? Scientists have proven that 70-90% of cancers are caused by environmental factors. Why is it so hard to fathom that human health and the health of the Earth are inseparable? The Environmental Health Movement could become THE most potent force for restoring the Earth. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-11: Global Green Plan and Urban Design

By: Mark Hertsgaard & Francesca Vietor

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Solutions, solutions, solutions. From the Global Green Deal, a comprehensive plan for restoring the Earth, to the inspiring programs and policies of one city that is going green. This program is full of practical strategies to turn eco-centered visions into living realities that deliver jobs and profits. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-10: First Nations and the Future of the Earth

By: Rebecca Adamson, Paula Gunn Allen, Ph.D. & John...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Indigenous peoples were the first "Bioneers" who worked with nature in a reciprocal relationship -- giving back as much as they took. This program highlights startling new studies that have identified "biodiversity hotspots" around the globe, lands that are critical to the health of the biosphere, lands which are under the care of indigenous... Read more

Bioneers Series 2-01: Re-Imagining Design: Becoming Tools of Nature

By: William McDonough

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill McDonough has long been at the forefront of what he calls "the next industrial revolution." McDonough suggests that the growth/no growth struggle between business interests and environmentalists is absurd. The real question is "what do you want to grow?" Read more

Bioneers Series 2-02: Gaian Wonders of the Co-Evolutionary Dance

By: Jeremy Narby, Ph.D., Steven Foster, Jennifer Gr...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Who needs TV when the waves at the beach are phosphorescing, the fungal internet is pulsing, and the laws of physics are being broken all around us by...water? These Bioneers celebrate the wonders of nature they encounter in their work for the Earth and explore, among other things, "the ocean eye" and variations on a nematode worm. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-03: Environmental Justice – Rising from the Flames

By: Terri Swearingen, RN, Henry Clark, Ph.D. & Carw...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the oil fields in Nigeria to an Ohio school yard downwind from a toxic incinerator, to a Richmond, California community surrounded by industry, these are inspiring stories of tragedy and the heroic victories of everyday people who are standing up to the deadly practices of big business polluters. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-05: Tree of Knowledge - Tree of Life: Towards an Agriculture of Relationships

By: Joel Salatin, Fred Kirschenmann & Wes Jackson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Agriculture, or industrial farming, as it is practiced today, may be the single most destructive human activity against the Earth that we currently employ. In response, a movement toward Restorative Farming, that looks to nature for its direction, is gaining momentum. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-06: Rewilding The Earth: Nurturing The Web Of Life

By: Dave Foreman & Dennis Martinez

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ecosystems are collapsing and Dave Foreman is working to return large carnivores, "keystone species," like the wolf and the jaguar to the American West. Native American Dennis Martinez is a restorative ecologist, who would say the true "keystone species" has traditionally been indigenous humans. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-07: Globalization: The Environment and Living Toward the Local

By: Jerry Mander, Kevin Danaher, Ph.D., Alisa Gravi...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Every dollar we spend is a vote for or against the Earth. These Bioneers call us to recognize that economics is actually a subset of ecology, not the other way around. Behind most environmental harm is an economic motive, so how do we move from the love of money to the love of life? Read more

Bioneers Series 2-08: Knowledge From Intimacy: Revaluing The Feminine

By: Paula Gunn Allen, Ph.D., Susan Griffin, Guji Co...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Here we acknowledge the "sheroic" work of 5 women who represent the millions who, in their work for the Earth, embody the "fierce feminine," feminine qualities they say that are in all of us no matter our gender. They are the qualities most called for in these pivotal times. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-09: Honoring the Heritage of Black Farmers on the Land

By: J.L. Chestnut

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Black farmers have been leaving the land at three and a-half times the rate of other farmers. It turns out that this loss of black farmers is due less to farming policies and practices than it is to generations of institutional racism. Civil Rights attorney J.L. Chestnut, in a brilliant and emotional speech, tells the story of the successful... Read more

A Walk in the Woods - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
 
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times 
 
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to... Read more

Kenya: Taking it Personally

By: Wantari Maathai, James Orengo & Amina Bakari

Narrated by: Christina Fleming

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sitting in her Kenyan homestay as an exchange student, Christina Fleming set the intention to share the Kenyan peoples' stories in their own voice.  You will hear from several Kenyan leaders as well as a Nairobi family sitting in their living room. Read more

Heart Of A Heroine:  Saving The Last Redwoods

By: Julia Butterfly Hill

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Julia 'Butterfly' Hill's remarkable and triumphant 738 day tree-sit atop the 1,000 year old, 200 foot tall redwood tree she named "Luna", ended December 18, 1999, when she negotiated a deal to save the ancient tree with Pacific Lumber, a division of the Maxxam Corporation, who owns the land on which "Luna" stands.  Hill's exuberant and... Read more

Spiritual Ecology

By: Thom Hartmann

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet a man who has helped set up hospitals, famine relief programs, schools and communities for orphaned and blind children on five continents:  Thom Hartmann.  He describes scenes that may bring tears to your eyes, but will awaken your heart to matters that  cry out for our attention. Read more

Fire on the Mountain - Abridged

By: John N. Maclean

Narrated by: John N. Maclean

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded by the district's Bureau of Land Management office as taking place in South Canyon, thereby mislabeling forever one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting. That seemingly small human error foreshadowed the numerous... Read more

Turning Crises Into Wisdom

By: Elisabet Sahtouris

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris blends biology, philosophy and spirituality into an intoxicating mix that will touch the very nucleus of your cells.  Offering a multitude of reasons to remain hopeful despite dire predictions for our environment, Sahtouris is confident we can turn things around—and quickly—because "life is too... Read more

Living the Wild Life

By: Jane Goodall

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

At a meeting in 1962, a young woman turned the scientific community upside down with the announcement that chimpanzees make tools in the wild.  Jane Goodall’s discovery was  the beginning of thirty years of patient and intimate primate observation in the wilds of Kenya; years that redefined what it is to be a human being. Read more