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Environmental Audiobooks

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    Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition

    The American West and Its Disappearing Water

    by Marc Reisner, Lawrie Mott ...
    Narrated by Kate Udall, Lawrie Mott, Francis J Spieler ...

    Unabridged

    27 hours 59 min

    The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Tendre vers le zéro déchet

    by Mélissa de La Fontaine ...
    Narrated by Marie-Josée Forget ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 34 min

    Mélissa de La Fontaine a amorcé un virage zéro déchet après avoir découvert ce mode de vie grâce à l’expérience de l’initiatrice du mouvement, la Franco-Américaine Béa Johnson. Dès lors, elle a décidé de revoir ses habitudes de consommation et de réduire au maximum son empreinte écologique. Son livre, Tendre vers le zéro déchet, est le fruit de cette démarche entreprise en 2013. Il retrace son ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How to Give Up Plastic

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

    by Will McCallum ...
    Narrated by Joe Sutherland ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 56 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum, read by Joe Sutherland.'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David AttenboroughAround 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals.By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than fish by weight.Plastic pollution is the ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Future of Packaging

    From Linear to Circular

    by Tom Szaky ...
    Narrated by Jeff Hoyt, Natalie Hoyt ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 32 min

    Only 35 percent of the 240 million metric tons of waste generated in the United States alone gets recycled, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. This extraordinary collection shows how manufacturers can move from a one-way take-make-waste economy that is burying the world in waste to a circular, make-use-recycle economy.Steered by Tom Szaky, recycling pioneer, eco-capitalist, and ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Year of No Garbage

    by Eve O. Schaub ...
    Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 29 min

    In this book, Eve O. Schaub, humorist and stunt memoirist extraordinaire, tackles her most difficult challenge to date: garbage. Convincing her husband and two daughters to go along with her, Schaub attempts the seemingly impossible: living in the modern world without creating any trash at all—for an entire year and, as it turns out, during a pandemic. In the process, Schaub learns some startling ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Inconspicuous Consumption

    The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have

    by Tatiana Schlossberg ...
    Narrated by Tatiana Schlossberg ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 49 min

    *First Place Winner of the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Award*"If you're looking for something to cling to in what often feels like a hopeless conversation, Schlossberg's darkly humorous, knowledge-is-power, eyes-wide-open approach may be just the thing."--VogueFrom a former New York Times science writer, this urgent call to action will empower you to stand ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Essential Rainwater Harvesting

    A Guide to Home-Scale System Design

    by Rob Avis, P. Eng, Michelle Avis, P. Eng ...
    Narrated by Nate Drury ...
    Audiobook 11 - Sustainable Building Essentials Series

    Unabridged

    6 hours

    Design a rainwater harvesting system for any home in any climate.Water is a crucial resource increasingly under stress. Yet rainfall, even in arid climates, can make up a sizable portion of any home, acreage, or farm's water requirements if harvested and utilized with care. The key is appropriate planning and high-quality site- and climate-specific design.Essential Rainwater Harvesting is a ... Read more

    $58.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Running Out

    In Search of Water on the High Plains

    by Lucas Bessire ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 19 min

    Finalist for the National Book AwardThis audiobook narrated by John Chancer recounts an intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Nineteen Reservoirs

    On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City

    by Lucy Sante ...
    Narrated by Lucy Sante ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 47 min

    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 City's ever-increasing need for water, sustaining its ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Rewilding the Sea

    How to Save our Oceans

    by Charles Clover ...
    Narrated by Nathaniel Priestley ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 14 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In this indispensable follow up to his acclaimed The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World, Charles Clover chronicles how determined individuals are proving that the crisis in our oceans can be reversed, with benefits for both local communities and entire ecosystems. Rewilding the Sea celebrates what happens when we step aside and let nature repair the ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Great Plant-Based Con

    Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve your health or save the planet

    by Jayne Buxton ...
    Narrated by Laurel Lefkow ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 24 min

    'The most incredible book' Delia Smith'Persuasive, entertaining and well researched' Sunday TimesPlant-based is best for health, go vegan to help save the planet, eat less meat... Almost every day we are bombarded with the seemingly incontrovertible message that we must reduce our consumption of meat and dairy - or eliminate them from our diets altogether.But what if the pervasive message that the ... Read more

    $55.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Burn

    Using Fire to Cool the Earth

    by Albert Bates, Kathleen Draper ...
    Narrated by Tia Rider ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    New Exclusive Content: Author Albert Bates in conversation with Soil Association’s Head of Horticulture Ben Raskin during the 2019 Hawkwood Seed FestivalAn 800-CEO-READ "Editor's Choice" March 2019How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate CrisisIn order to rescue ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how humans live on Earth. We have to go from spending carbon to ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    How moss revealed undetected air pollution

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    5 min

    Portland, Oregon, prides itself on being very focused on the environment. So many people were shocked to discover that certain neighborhoods contain high levels of toxic metals. Scientists made the discovery when ordinary moss samples taken from all over town revealed the unexpected contamination. Special correspondent Cat Wise reports on how it led to some significant changes in the city. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Wasteland

    The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters

    by Oliver Franklin-Wallis ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    ‘A gripping read that will anger as much as it fascinates’ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall**‘An incredible journey into the world of rubbish, full of fascinating characters and mind-bending facts’ Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland‘Urgent, probing and endlessly interesting’ Cal Flyn, author of** Islands of Abandonment'There are stories in all our discarded things: who made them, what they meant to a ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Holding Back the River

    The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways

    by Tyler J. Kelley ...
    Narrated by Samantha Desz ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 10 min

    A revelatory work of reporting on the men and women wrestling to harness and preserve America’s most vital natural resource: our rivers.The Mississippi. The Missouri. The Ohio. America’s rivers are the very lifeblood of our country. We need them for nourishing crops, for cheap bulk transportation, for hydroelectric power, for fresh drinking water. Rivers are also part of our mythology, our ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Solar Power: Off Grid Power That Anyone Can Use

    by Mark J. Carlton ...
    Narrated by Nick Dolle ...

    Unabridged

    28 min

    Are you looking for a greener way to live?Are you concerned about the state of the planet and what we are doing to it?Do you want to try an alternative to power that damages the environment?The last 100 years has seen a much greater awareness that we humans are causing lasting and irreparable damage to our planet, through a reckless disregard of its resources and how we use them. Climate change, ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    An Unpromised Land

    by Leon Gettler ...
    Narrated by Leon Gettler ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 25 min

    In the 1930s, in the wake of the Nazi ascendancy in Germany, a wave of vicious anti-Semitism swept Europe, as Jews became outcasts in their own lands. As they clamoured to escape persecution, the world turned a blind eye to their plight. One man, Isaac Steinberg, had a vision of leading his people from the holocaust to a new paradise on the other side of the world. His enthusiastic and resolute ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Nature’s Best Hope

    The Essential Guide on How to Go Green. Discover Practices That Will Help You Protect Mother Earth

    by Tristan Salem ...
    Narrated by Marcus Mulenga ...

    Unabridged

    14 min

    Nature’s Best Hope: The Essential Guide on How to Go Green. Discover Practices That Will Help You Protect Mother EarthReports on global warming and climate change seem to be everywhere and people are starting to get alarmed. However, the publication of these reports may be a good thing since it presents that there is awareness of this particular problem. As a response, people want to find ways on ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change

    by Dieter Helm ...
    Narrated by Malk Williams ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 51 min

    What can we really do about the climate emergency?The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing – or even just slowing – it will affect all of us. But it can be done.In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Blue Mind

    How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do

    by Wallace J. Nichols ...
    Narrated by Wallace J. Nichols ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 34 min

    Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water.Grounded in cutting-edge studies in neurobiology, cognitive psychology, economics, and medicine, and made real by ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Getting To Zero

    A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

    by Sarah Woods ...
    Narrated by Don Gilet, Janice Acquah, Jonathan Tafler, Kate Ashfield, Malcom Tierney, Poppy Lee Friar, Ryan Watson, Stephen Hogan ...

    Unabridged

    43 min

    With George Monbiot, Paul Allen and Peter Harper. Have you got what it takes to get to zero carbon? Our expert panel set one average family the task of eliminating their carbon footprint... and living with the consequences. Originally broadcast in March 2009. Starring Kate Ashfield, Don Gilet, Poppy Lee Friar, Ryan Watson, Malcolm Tierney, Jonathan Tafler, Janice Acquah, and Stephen Hogan. ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Countdown: Unsere Zeit läuft ab – was wir der Klimakatastrophe noch entgegensetzen können

    by Mojib Latif, Mojib Latif ...
    Narrated by Irina Salkow ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 6 min

    Der neueste Bericht des Weltklimarats hat es auf dramatische Weise bestätigt: Bereits heute bestimmt der Klimawandel unseren Alltag massiv. Und sein Einfluss wird schneller wachsen, als bislang angenommen. Nicht nur weltweit, auch in Deutschland häufen sich Phänomene wie extreme Hitze, lang anhaltende Dürre, Starkniederschläge mit Überschwemmungen. Und auch wir müssen uns die Frage stellen, wie ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD

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    Creative Recycling Side: The Ultimate Guide on Recycling, Discover Effective Ways to Recycle So We Can Save the Earth and Create a Better Future For Our Children

    by Rene Hedley ...
    Narrated by Luke Jeffrey ...

    Unabridged

    32 min

    Creative Recycling Side: The Ultimate Guide on Recycling, Discover Effective Ways to Recycle So We Can Save the Earth and Create a Better Future For Our ChildrenThere have been many debates surrounding the health of our planet. Even if you’re not familiar with the arguments, I’m sure you have at least heard the words climate change. Some people can’t be bothered to care about this because they ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Heißzeit: Mit Vollgas in die Klimakatastrophe - und wie wir auf die Bremse treten

    by Mojib Latif ...
    Narrated by Irina Salkow ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 36 min

    Dass unser Umgang mit fossilen Brennstoffen zu einer Erwärmung des globalen Klimas führt, ist seit Jahrzehnten bekannt. Doch anstatt endlich den Anstieg der weltweiten Temperatur zu begrenzen, steigern wir unseren Ausstoß von CO2 immer noch weiter. Angesichts populistischer Regierungen, die den Klimawandel weiterhin leugnen, aber auch Bewegungen wie Fridays for Future, ergreift der prominente ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD