Audiobooks on Climate Change
Learn more about the effects of climate change—and what you can do—with these nonfiction audiobook picks.
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
From the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change. The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental... Read more
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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
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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
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We Are the Weather
Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
By: Jonathan Safran Foer
Narrated by: Jonathan Safran Foer
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
This program is read by the author.
In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way.
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the... Read more
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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
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our... Read more
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Chesapeake Requiem
A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
By: Earl Swift
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“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
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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
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Listening to this on audio has been a special experience simply due to the fact that Jane Goodall’s voice as she delivers her philosophies on hope in regards to the environment is both a balm to a troubled mind and spark of inspiration towards action. There is someone in your life that needs this book and it would make a great gift for them. Read more
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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
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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
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Vesper Flights
By: Helen Macdonald
Narrated by: Helen Macdonald
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I wish I could give Vesper Flights twelve stars out of five. In this beautiful, loving, poignant portrait of a nature lover’s world — gosh, what an understatement — Helen MacDonald continues to prove herself a nature-writing powerhouse. Her literary skills make her a modern legend, and Vesper Flights is sure to touch as many hearts, if not more,... Read more
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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
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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
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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
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The Well-Gardened Mind
The Restorative Power of Nature
By: Sue Stuart-Smith
Narrated by: Sue Stuart-Smith
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“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
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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
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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
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Unbowed
A Memoir
By: Wangari Maathai
Narrated by: Chinasa Ogbuagu
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, Wangari Maathai has been fighting for environmental responsibility and democracy in her native Kenya for over 35 years. Unbowed recounts the incredible journey that culminated in her appointment to Parliament in 2002. Despite repeated jailings, beatings, and other obstacles along the way, Maathai created... Read more
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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
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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
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