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Earth Day: Audiobook Picks

From nonfiction and fiction reads on climate change, guides to re-connecting to nature, and Indigenous wisdom, these picks encourage an insightful Earth Day—no matter which genre you choose.

An Immense World

How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Ed Yong
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong
 
“One of this year’s finest works of narrative... 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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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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How to Be a Climate Optimist

Blueprints for a Better World

By: Chris Turner
Narrated by: Chris Turner
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

WINNER OF THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING

From the National Business Book Award winner and GG finalist, a very different book about facing the climate crisis, and what awaits us on the other side.


Chris Turner has reported from the places where the sustainable future first emerged—from green islands in Denmark and green office... Read more

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The Climate Book

The Facts and the Solutions

By: Greta Thunberg
Narrated by: Amelia Stubberfield, Greta Thunberg, Nicholas Khan & Olivia Forrest
Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.

You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before... Read more

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Eat Like a Fish

My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

By: Bren Smith
Narrated by: Bren Smith
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Part memoir, part manifesto, in Eat Like a Fish Bren Smith—a former commercial fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer—shares a bold new vision for the future of food: seaweed.

Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers, from pioneering new forms of ocean... Read more

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Flight Paths

How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration

By: Rebecca Heisman
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

The captivating, little-known true story of a group of scientists and the methods and technology they developed to uncover the secrets of avian migration.For the past century, scientists and naturalists have been steadily unravelling the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate the skies, traveling from continent to continent—flying... Read more

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The Invention of Nature

Alexander von Humboldt's New World

By: Andrea Wulf
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

The acclaimed author of The Brother Gardeners and Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of the visionary German naturalist whose ideas continue to influence how we view ourselves and our relationship with the natural world today. Alexander von Humboldt (1769 - 1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His... Read more

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The Story of More

How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

By: Hope Jahren
Narrated by: Hope Jahren
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

The essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it. • Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet?" Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction

"The voice that science has been waiting for.” —Nature


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Nature Obscura

A City’s Hidden Natural World

By: Kelly Brenner
Narrated by: Erica Sullivan
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

A distinctive, funny, inspiring, and intimate dive into urban nature.With wonder and a sense of humor, Nature Obscura author Kelly Brenner aims to help us rediscover our connection to the natural world that is just outside our front door—we just need to know where to look.Through explorations of a rich and varied urban landscape, Brenner reveals... Read more

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The Healing Organization

Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World

By: Raj Sisodia & Michael J. Gelb
Narrated by: Josh Childs & Gabe Wicks
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

The image of modern corporations has been shaped by a profits over people approach, but we are at a point where business must take the lead in healing the crises of our time. The Healing Organization shows how corporations can become healing forces.Conscious Capitalism pioneer Raj Sisodia and organizational innovation expert Michael J. Gelb were... Read more

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The Story of Stuff

How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change

By: Annie Leonard
Narrated by: Annie Leonard
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

A classic exposé in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the “stuff” we use everyday, offering a galvanizing critique and steps for a changed planet.

The Story of Stuff was... Read more

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Nature beyond Solitude

Notes from the Field

By: John Seibert Farnsworth
Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

John Seibert Farnsworth’s delightful notes are not only about nature, but from nature as well.In Nature Beyond Solitude, he lets us peer over his shoulder as he takes his notes. We follow him to a series of field stations where he teams up with scientists, citizen scientists, rangers, stewards, and grad students engaged in long-term ecological... Read more

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The Future We Choose

Surviving the Climate Crisis

By: Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac
Narrated by: Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

A cautionary but optimistic book about the world’s changing climate and the fate of humanity, from two of the architects of the 2015 Paris Agreement. • "One of the most inspiring books I've ever read." —Yuval Harari

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac outline two possible scenarios for our planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth... Read more

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The Container Victory Garden

A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Your Own Groceries

By: Maggie Stuckey
Narrated by: Charity Spencer
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Even if all you have is a postage stamp's worth of space on a balcony, patio, or front stoop, The Container Victory Garden equips you to dig into the joys of container gardening—right where you are.Imagine this: In the morning, you pluck a few mint leaves from your backdoor herb garden and add them to your tea. A few hours later, you step out... Read more

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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

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One Green Thing

Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet

By: Heather White
Narrated by: Heather White & Diana Batarseh
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

The climate crisis and its resulting eco-anxiety is the biggest challenge of our time. The anxiety that comes with worrying about how environmental harm will impact our—and our children’s—lives can be overwhelming. Learn how to balance practicing daily sustainability actions while caring for your own eco-anxiety in this revolutionary book from... Read more

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All We Can Save

Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson
Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, Sophia Bush, Kimberly Drew, America Ferrera, Jane Fonda, Ilana Glazer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Janet Mock, Bahni Turpin & Alfre Woodard
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.
 
There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection,... Read more

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The Lives of Bees

The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild

By: Thomas D. Seeley
Narrated by: William Hope
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

This captivating audiobook narrated by William Hope reveals why wild honey bees may hold the key to saving the world’s managed bee colonies

Humans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, yet only in recent decades have biologists begun to investigate how these industrious insects live in the wild. The Lives of Bees is Thomas Seeley’s... Read more

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Not on My Watch

How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon

By: Alexandra Morton
Narrated by: Katie Ryerson
Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
 
Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance.

Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first... Read more

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