Earth Day Books

Slow Down

The Degrowth Manifesto

By: Kohei Saito
Narrated by: Troy Glasgow & Kohei Saito
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

"Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs, and are nevertheless unable to make ends meet, with no future prospects, while the planet is burning? In his international bestseller, Kohei Saito argues that while unfettered capitalism is often blamed for inequality and... Read more

Rising

Dispatches from the New American Shore

By: Elizabeth Rush
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant―and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways.In this highly original work of lyrical... Read more

The Ends of the World

Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

By: Peter Brannen
Narrated by: Adam Verner
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future.Our world has... Read more

How to Give Up Plastic

A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time

By: Will McCallum
Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

An accessible guide to the changes we can all make—small and large—to rid our lives of disposable plastic and clean up the world’s oceans

It takes 450 years for a plastic bottle to fully biodegrade, and there are around 12.7 million tons of plastic entering the ocean each year. At our current pace, in the year 2050 there could be more plastic in... Read more

Losing Earth

A Recent History

By: Nathaniel Rich
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

"This is an important, infuriating, enlightening, engaging, and engrossing audiobook...Anyone wishing to learn how the world has gotten to the point of almost inevitable climate disaster will be well served by listening to Godfrey's measured but emphatic reading." — AudioFile Magazine

By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today... Read more

Don't Even Think About It

Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change

By: George Marshall
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Bloomsbury presents Don't Even Think About It by George Marshall, read by John Lee.

An Esquire Essential Book on Climate Change

From the founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network, a groundbreaking take on the most urgent question of our time: Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change?

“Please... Read more

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

By: Frans de Waal
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

“A triumph of common sense and empathy over dogmatic (and decades out-of-date) scientific views. De Waal's arguments here are deeply rooted in the scientific method, and he is able to help the reader peek through cracks in the wall of human egocentrism that has dominated the study of animal cognition from the very beginning. Read more

Where the Water Goes

Life and Death Along the Colorado River

By: David Owen
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal

An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes.

The Colorado River is an... Read more

Merchants of Doubt

How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

By: Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway
Narrated by: Liza Seneca
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Bloomsbury presents Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway, read by Liza Seneca.

Featuring a new Foreword by former Vice President Al Gore

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

"Important and timely. We ignore this message at our peril."—Elizabeth Kolbert

Merchants of Doubt has been praised—and attacked—around the world,... Read more

Silent Spring

By: Rachel Carson
Narrated by: Kaiulani Lee
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

First published in 1962, Silent Spring can singlehandedly be credited with sounding the alarm and raising awareness of humankind's collective impact on its own future through chemical pollution. No other book has so strongly influenced the environmental conscience of Americans and the world at large. "Silent Spring came as a cry in the... Read more

The Uninhabitable Earth

Life After Warming

By: David Wallace-Wells
Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon

With a new afterword

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are... Read more

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

By: Bill Gates
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton & Bill Gates
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.

Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics,... Read more

The Conscious Closet

The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good

By: Elizabeth L. Cline
Narrated by: Elizabeth L. Cline
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

From journalist, fashionista, and clothing resale expert Elizabeth L. Cline, “the Michael Pollan of fashion,”* comes the definitive guide to building an ethical, sustainable wardrobe you'll love.

Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigation Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion,... Read more

Flight Behavior

By: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
Length: 16 hours 56 minutes

New York Times Bestseller""An intricate story that entwines considerations of faith and faithlessness, inquiry, denial, fear and survival in gorgeously conceived metaphor. Kingsolver has constructed a deeply affecting microcosm of a phenomenon that is manifesting in many different tragic ways, in communities and ecosystems all around the globe.”... Read more

The Lorax

By: Dr. Seuss
Narrated by: Ted Danson
Length: 15 minutes

Long before saving the earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss, speaking through his character the Lorax, warned against mindless progress and the danger it posed to the earth's natural beauty. Read more