Environment & Nature audiobooks
Survival und Selbstversorgung - 4 in 1 Sammelband: Suvival & Prepping | Selbstversorger werden | Camper Ausbau | Tiny House
By: Jonas Sandersfeld
Narrated by: Frank Krimphove
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Krisenvorsorge und Survival für Einsteiger Allein in der Wildnis und Sie kennen den Rückweg nicht? Sie laufen immer weiter und verirren sich bloß immer mehr? Sie haben seit einer gefühlten Ewigkeit keine anderen Menschen gesehen und auch kein Zeichen von Zivilisation? Sie haben nicht genug Wasser eingepackt, um längere Zeit davon leben zu... Read more
View audiobookO Poder transformador dos Biocombustíveis - Abridged
By: Donizete Tokarski
Narrated by: Voz Sintética
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Nesta obra, buscamos apresentar as diversas variáveis que devem compor a equação para a decisão de qual o melhor combustível a usar. Alguns fatores relevantes estão presentes na legislação, em acordos internacionais, tendências mundiais, oportunidade de mercado e em análises sociais, econômicas, ambientais e de saúde pública. Tratamos uma... Read more
View audiobookGenius Ideas for Planetary Healing
By: Lucille Whitaker
Narrated by: Tom Chi & Lucille Whitaker
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
Genius Ideas for Planetary healing is about envisioning a healthier planet for all. It’s a survey of the innovations and transformations that can support a world where humanity and nature both prosper. Building off of foundational concepts, we explore the challenges we face and the inspired responses that we are starting to take. Read more
View audiobookWildlife in the Balance
By: Simon Mustoe
Narrated by: Simon Mustoe
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
You are among the last in a long line of animals that were the likeliest to survive half a billion years of evolution. But you couldn't be here today
without all other wildlife. Over the past fifty years we've killed three quarters of the creatures we need to keep ecosystems healthy. Now we
have a choice to make: re-find our place among them, or... Read more
In the Light of the Full Moon
By: Don Langford
Narrated by: Don Langford
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Don Langford’s poetry is inseparable from self exploration. Here, the poet examines impermanence, patience, and interconnectedness with a seeker’s longing for equanimity and meaning. With keen observations and strands of wit and humor, In the Light of the Full Moon is a meditation on finding one’s way in the present world. A poet’s sense of... Read more
View audiobookNature's Wild Ideas
By: Kristy Hamilton
Narrated by: Patricia Shade
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
When astronomers wanted a telescope that could capture X-rays from celestial bodies, they looked to the lobster. When doctors wanted a medication that could stabilize Type II diabetic patients, they found their muse in a lizard. When scientists wanted to drastically reduce emissions in cement manufacturing, they observed how corals construct... Read more
View audiobookGrass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World
By: Ridge Shinn & Lynn Pledger
Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities of our globalized food system and highlighted the desperate need for local and regional supplies of healthy meat. We must replace corn-based feedlots, which are responsible for significant climate emissions, nitrogen pollution, and animal suffering. Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World... Read more
View audiobookWalking with Spring
By: Earl V. Shaffer
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1948, the Appalachian Trail had been a continuous, 2,000-mile footpath for eleven years, but no one had walked its length alone in a continuous journey—until Earl Shaffer, a quiet Pennsylvanian, became a hiking legend and the first of what is now more than 5,500 A.T. "thru-hikers," walking from Georgia to Maine as spring arrived to each area.... Read more
View audiobookNational Geographic Birding Basics
By: Noah Strycker
Narrated by: Dan Bittner
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Targeted to beginners and beyond, National Geographic's fun, inspiring guide to the art, craft, and science of bird-watching combines practical know-how and expert knowledge. Browsable and bursting with helpful illustrations and photographs, Birding Basics offers new ideas for when, where, and how to get to know the birds in your world. Not a... Read more
View audiobookMusical Tables
By: Billy Collins
Narrated by: Billy Collins
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the former United States Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love, a collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, and each a thought or observation compressed to its emotional essence
“Whenever I pick up a new book of poems, I flip through the pages looking for small ones. Just as... Read more
Drawing Out Leviathan
By: Keith M. Parsons
Narrated by: Will Tulin
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
" . . . are dinosaurs social constructs? Might not all of our beliefs about dinosaurs merely be figments of the paleontological imagination? A few years ago such questions would have seemed preposterous, even nonsensical. Now they must have a serious answer."
At stake in the "Science Wars" that have raged in academe and in the media is nothing... Read more
Living for Future
By: Corentin de Chatelperron
Narrated by: Jan Sören Meyer
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Nachhaltigkeit mit Zukunft: Wie man wirklich umweltbewusst leben kann Zwei Hühner, eine Ente und ein paar Pflanzen: Viel mehr hat Corentin de Chatelperron nicht im Gepäck, als er für vier Monate auf eine schwimmende Bambusplattform in Thailand zieht. Sein Ziel: Mit kreativen Low-Tech-Lösungen eine eigene Biosphäre schaffen und als... Read more
View audiobookSilent Spring Revolution
By: Douglas Brinkley
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 29 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of... Read more
View audiobookThe Nature of Economies
By: Jane Jacobs
Narrated by: Kate Rudd
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Decades after The Death and Life of Great American Cities forever changed the field of urban studies, Jane Jacobs—one of the few contemporary thinkers whose works will remain in print for generations—brought us a modern classic on economies and ecology. Original and eloquent, this book looks at the connection between the economy and nature,... Read more
View audiobookThe Trials of Life
By: David Attenborough
Narrated by: David Attenborough
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. ‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David Attenborough on... Read more
View audiobookThe Salton Sea: The History of America’s Most Unique Lake
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: David van der Molan
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In the list of popular American geological oddities and attractions, one sizeable phenomenon remains surprisingly unfamiliar to the average citizen. This may be due in part to its remote desert location, but perception of the Salton Sea in southern California is also laden with environmental concerns and is in a constant state of flux. The... Read more
View audiobookNineteen Reservoirs
By: Lucy Sante
Narrated by: Lucy Sante
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Without the nineteen upstate reservoirs that supply its water, New York City as we know it would not exist today.
From 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties. This feat of engineering served to meet New York... Read more
An Inconvenient Apocalypse
By: Wes Jackson & Robert Jensen
Narrated by: Graham Rowat
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
For decades, our world has understood that we are on the brink of an apocalypse—yet the only implemented solutions have been small and convenient, feel-good initiatives that avoid unpleasant truths about the root causes of our impending disaster. Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen argue that we must reconsider the origins of the consumption crisis... Read more
View audiobookBlue Horses
By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature.Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry, and impermanence. Whether considering a bird’s nest, the seeming... Read more
View audiobookLichtblick statt Blackout - Abridged
By: Vince Ebert
Narrated by: Vince Ebert
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Gedankenblitze statt Blackout! Kann eine Nation, die mit dem Bau eines Flughafens überfordert war, wirklich das Weltklima retten? Und lässt sich die Erderwärmung reduzieren, wenn man das Eisfach offen lässt? Mit humoristischer Feder hinterfragt Vince Ebert unseren Ehrgeiz, die Welt zu retten. Klimaforschung ist objektive Wissenschaft.... Read more
View audiobookKF Mezzi 8 - Milli steins og sleggju
By: Daniel Zimakoff
Narrated by: Árni Beinteinn Árnason
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Lífið leikur við félaga KF Mezzi, Tómas er kominn í meistarabúðir á Karólínuvelli og allt er eins og best verður á kosið ... eða hvað?Tómas þarf jú líka að sinna skólanum, vinunum og kærustunni og það er ekki auðvelt að halda svona mörgum boltum á lofti. Hann þarf hann að hafa sig allan við að koma jafnvægi aftur á - og bjarga KF Mezzi!KF Mezzi... Read more
View audiobookBring Me Back Home, New Orleans
By: Asia Briana Brown
Narrated by: Asia Briana Brown
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
“Dear New Orleans, I miss you. Crescent City, I love you.” On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated a number of homes and communities, scattering families as they sought refuge. Bring Me Back Home, New Orleans, is a Katrina survivor’s story of loss told through poetry, a reflection on home, and an ode to New Orleans. Read more
View audiobookHowExpert Guide to Show Pigs
By: HowExpert & Keiren Cook
Narrated by: Robert Taylor
Length: 3 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
If you want to learn how to breed, raise, and prepare show hogs for pig shows, then check out HowExpert Guide to Show Pigs. This guide is an information-dense piece of text that is a step-by-step guide for raising show pigs from farrow to table.In the first section of the book, you will discover everything there is to know about picking a sow... Read more
View audiobookThe Age of Resilience
By: Jeremy Rifkin
Narrated by: Adam Barr
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization and a transformative vision of how our species will thrive on an unpredictable Earth.
The viruses keep coming, the climate is warming, and the Earth is rewilding. Our human family has no playbook to address the mayhem unfolding around us. If there is a change to reckon with, argues the... Read more