Audiobooks on Climate Change

The Intersectional Environmentalist

How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

By: Leah Thomas
Narrated by: Leah Thomas, Hayden Bishop & Erin Walker
Length: 4 hours 1 minute

“Acclaimed environmental activist Leah Thomas has put together an expert and necessary introduction into the ways climate change has most aggressively impacted marginalized communities while simultaneously pinpointing the ways those same voices have historically been ignored within environmentalism movements. The Intersectional Environmentalist... 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 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

We Are the Weather

Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

By: Jonathan Safran Foer
Narrated by: Jonathan Safran Foer
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

“In signature literary fashion, Jonathan Safran Foer draws on the threads of history, science, and family history to illustrate the power in a single human choice to change the world—and the challenge to make it. His premise is simple: You can stop climate change’s devastation by not eating animal products before dinner. While light on practical... Read more

Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

“The hype over this book is real! Consider this your sign to pick it up and give it a listen if you have been thinking about it. Kimmerer narrates her own book with emotion and heart, and I absolutely enjoyed every minute of it! Braiding Sweetgrass will make you see the world differently, and I truly think everyone can relate to a chapter in this... Read more

Chesapeake Requiem

A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

By: Earl Swift
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

“I was so impressed with this story of Tangier, an exploration of science, history, religion, and culture driven by emotionally salient commentary from people who live there today. I thought it was particularly interesting to learn that the community is conservative both religiously and politically, but their home is being swept away by rising... Read more

The Book of Hope

A Survival Guide for Trying Times

Global Icons Series

By: Jane Goodall & Douglas Abrams
Narrated by: Douglas Abrams & Jane Goodall
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

“Fascinating interview of naturalist Dr Jane Goodall by biographer Douglas Adams. I listened to the Libro.fm edition which is narrated by both. Interesting to learn how she first got interested in studying animal behavior and how the field has changed. Her research at Gombe National Park has given us an in-depth understanding of chimpanzee... Read more

The Nature Fix

Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

By: Florence Williams
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; Nikola Tesla conceived the electric motor while visiting a park. Intrigued by our storied renewal in the natural world, Florence Williams sets out to uncover the... 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

Vesper Flights

By: Helen Macdonald
Narrated by: Helen Macdonald
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

“This audio book was my daily meditation. It is the perfect way to wrap up 2020. Soothing and inspirational, I am recommending to all my friends and family. Read more

Climate

A New Story

By: Charles Eisenstein
Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

A stirring case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction
 
With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our “fight” mentality. With an entire chapter unpacking the climate change... Read more

This One Wild and Precious Life

The Path Back to Connection in a Fractured World

By: Sarah Wilson
Narrated by: Sarah Wilson
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

“Sarah Wilson is a force of nature – quite literally. She has taken her pain and grief about our sick and troubled world and alchemized it into action, advocacy, adventure, poetry, and true love.” — ELIZABETH GILBERTWill you sleep through the revolution? Or do you want to wake up and reclaim your one, wild and precious life? From New York... 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

The Well-Gardened Mind

The Restorative Power of Nature

By: Sue Stuart-Smith
Narrated by: Sue Stuart-Smith
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

“I listened to this on audio (from libro.fm/avidbookshop) and really loved it. I'm a longtime lover of being outdoors, but it wasn't until the pandemic hit that I started growing potted plants on my own in earnest. This book highlights the ways in which gardening, in all its forms, has a demonstrably positive impact on your mind, your body, your... Read more

Disposable City

Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe

By: Mario Alejandro Ariza
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.
Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today.... Read more

On a Farther Shore

The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson

By: William Souder
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental movement.She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea around Us. But it was with her fourth book, Silent Spring, that... Read more

Unbowed

A Memoir

By: Wangari Maathai
Narrated by: Chinasa Ogbuagu
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Hurston/Wright Legacy Award A remarkable memoir of courage, faith, and the power of persistence about one woman’s extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. “[Maathai’s] story provides uplifting proof of the power of perseverance—and of the power of principled, passionate people to change... 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