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Natural Resources Audiobooks

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    Civilized To Death

    The Price of Progress

    by Christopher Ryan ...
    Narrated by Christopher Ryan ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 20 min

    The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die—in this “engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking” (Booklist) book.Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How the World Really Works

    A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Narrated by Stephen Perring ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 8 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Regenesis

    Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

    by George Monbiot ...
    Narrated by George Monbiot ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 29 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.People talk a lot about the problems with intensive farming. But the problem isn't the adjective. It's the noun. Around the world, farming has been wiping out vast habitats, depleting freshwater, polluting oceans, and accelerating global heating, while leaving millions undernourished and unfed. Increasingly, there are signs that the system itself is beginning to flicker. ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The World in a Grain

    The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization

    by Vince Beiser ...
    Narrated by Will Damron ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 49 min

    A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardThe gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives.After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Desert Solitaire

    A Season in the Wilderness

    by Edward Abbey ...
    Narrated by Michael Kramer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 31 min

    When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road, and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the essence of his life during three seasons as a park ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Grand Transitions

    How the Modern World Was Made

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Narrated by Robert Fass ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 15 min

    What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization-in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics-which have transformed the way we live. Societies that have undergone all four transitions emerge into an era of radically different population dynamics, food surpluses (and waste), abundant energy use, and expanding ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Numbers Don't Lie

    71 Things You Need to Know About the World

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Narrated by Stephen Perring ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 45 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy?From earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this affects the planet itself - in Numbers Don't Lie, Professor Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure, using ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside

    by Dieter Helm ...
    Narrated by Mike Grady ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    ‘One of the most important books of the decade’ Country LifeFinally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature.News about Britain’s wildlife and ecosystems tends to be grim. In Green and Prosperous Land, Oxford economist and Natural Capital Committee chair Dieter Helm shares his radical but tangible plan for positive change.This pragmatic approach to environmentalism ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Eating Animals

    by Jonathan Safran Foer ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    **To reduce risk of pandemics for ourselves, our gaze needs to turn to the health of animals.From the bestselling author of the essential new 2019 book on animal agriculture and climate crisis: We are the WeatherDiscover Jonathan Safran Foer's eye-opening and life-changing account of the meat we eat'Should be compulsory reading. A genuine masterwork. Read this book. It will change you' Time Out* ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Remedios Naturales Para El Dolor De Espalda

    by MENTES LIBRES ...
    Narrated by MENTES LIBRES ...

    Unabridged

    22 min

    El dolor de espalda puede ser mental y físicamente debilitante. Puede afectar a todo lo que se hace, desde el trabajo y el ejercicio hasta las simples tareas cotidianas. El dolor de espalda puede ser de corta duración o convertirse rápidamente en una lucha de por vida debido a una lesión o enfermedad.Por suerte, hay formas naturales de aliviar el dolor de espalda sin tener que recurrir a la ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Material

    Making and the Art of Transformation

    by Nick Kary ...
    Narrated by Nick Kary ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    A master craftsperson explores the ways in which working with our hands reveals the essence of both our humanity and our relationship with the natural, material worldIn our present age of computer-assisted design, mass production and machine precision, the traditional skills of the maker or craftsperson are hard to find. Yet the desire for well-made and beautiful objects from the hands (and mind) ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Cobalt

    Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower

    by Charlie Angus ...
    Narrated by Charles Constant ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 25 min

    The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this "demon metal" has a horrific present and a troubled history. The modern search for cobalt has brought investors back to a small town in Northern Canada, a place called Cobalt. Like the demon metal, this town has a dark and turbulent history. The tale of the early-twentieth-century mining rush ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Tides

    The Science and Spirit of the Ocean

    by Jonathan White ...
    Narrated by Dan Woren ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 13 min

    In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides.In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    How To Read Water

    Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

    by Tristan Gooley ...
    Narrated by Tristan Gooley ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 22 min

    A Sunday Times 'Must Read' book'This study of rivers, lakes, puddles and seas brims over with astonishing facts...His observational skills can be breathtaking' The Sunday TimesA must-have book for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural world, in How To Read Water, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares knowledge, skills, tips and useful observations to help you ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth

    by Tom Burgis ...
    Narrated by Dugald Bruce Lockhart ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 9 min

    Overseas Press Club Award Winner 2016A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, ‘The Looting Machine’ explores the dark underbelly of the global economy.Africa: the world’s poorest continent and, arguably, its richest. While accounting for just 2 percent of global GDP, it is home to 15 per cent of the planet’s crude oil, 40 per cent of its gold and 80 ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    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

  • Audiobook

    Bringing Back the Beaver

    The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways

    by Derek Gow, Isabella Tree ...
    Narrated by Calum Beaton ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 22 min

    A bold new voice in nature writing, from the front lines of Britain's rewilding movementBringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow’s inspirational and often riotously funny firsthand account of how the movement to rewild the British landscape with beavers has become the single most dramatic and subversive nature conservation act of the modern era. Since the early 1990s – in the ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Material World

    A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

    by Ed Conway ...

    Unabridged

    Brought to you by Penguin.'A compelling narrative of the human story'Tim Marshall, author of Prisoners of GeographySand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium.The struggle for these tiny, magical materials has razed empires, demolished civilizations, fed our greed and our ingenuity for thousands of years. But the story is not over. We are often told we now live in a weightless world of information ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Climate Justice

    Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future

    by Mary Robinson ...
    Narrated by Ruth Urquhart ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 3 min

    An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward. Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson's mission to bring together the fight against climate change and the global struggle for human rights has taken her all over the world. It also brought her to a heartening ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Soul Full of Coal Dust

    A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia

    by Chris Hamby ...
    Narrated by Gary Tiedemann ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 1 min

    In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resilient mining communities who refuse to back down.Decades ago, a grassroots uprising forced Congress to enact long-overdue legislation designed to virtually eradicate black lung disease and provide fair ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    In Search of the Canary Tree

    The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World

    by Lauren E. Oakes ...
    Narrated by Ellen Archer ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 27 min

    The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming worldSeveral years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Meeresrauschen: Beruhigende Ozeanwellen, Meeresvögel im Wind, Klänge der Unterwasserwelt

    Erlebe die wundervolle Welt der Natur

    by Yella A. Deeken, Patrick Lynen ...
    Narrated by Stephan Müller ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 14 min

    Erleben Sie das Meer und seine Magie aus verschiedenen Perspektiven und tauchen Sie ein in eine Welt der grenzenlosen Entspannung. Finden Sie Ihren ganz persönlichen Ort der Ruhe und des Friedens, an dem Sie tief entspannen und vollends zur Ruhe kommen können. "Meeresrauschen" wurde aufgenommen an entlegenen Orten am und auf dem Meer - auf Menorca, an der Küste von Neuseeland und in Tansania. ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Turning the Tide on Plastic

    How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again

    by Lucy Siegle ...
    Narrated by Lucy Siegle, Hugo Tagholm ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 45 min

    Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 timesMore than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every yearAn estimated 15-51 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans38.5 million plastic bottles are used every day in the UKA million plastic bottles are used per minute around the world500 million ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Bæredygtig badass - En zero waste livsstilsguide

    by Gittemarie Johansen ...
    Narrated by Line Hesdam ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 54 min

    Denne bog er til dig, som ønsker at minimere dit forbrug og gøre dine vaner grønnere, uanset hvem du er. Som en livsstilsguide til grøn omstilling og en introduktion til zero waste-livsstilen viser bogen dig, hvorfor du skal melde dig ud af forbrugerræset, og hvordan du bærer dig ad. Her finder du lavpraktiske tips og vigtige fakta om plastikforurening, overforbrug og klimakrisen – men vigtigst af ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD