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How Degrowth Will Save the World

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Brought to you by Penguin.The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: DEGROWTH.If we want to have a shot at halting the crisis, we need to restore the ... Read more

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

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Brought to you by Penguin.Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide toward certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward ... Read more

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This program is read by Carl Pope and Charles Pellett with an introduction read by the author.From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more prosperous, aiming to begin a new type ... Read more

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Tiempo para la vida habla de la ecología, la ética, el lugar de los animales en las sociedades industrializadas y la tecnociencia. Explora las causas y el sentido de la crisis ecológica que agobia al mundo desde una renovadora perspectiva de la filosofía moral.
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How the World Really Works

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10 hours 8 min

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The Human Age

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Empire at the Edge of the World

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10 hours

One man's lust for empire sent a team of adventurers into the Arctic - only one came back.1913, the Arctic Circle. Charismatic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson is obsessed with a frozen speck of land in the Siberian Arctic: Wrangel Island. Believing that whoever possesses it will control the future - air routes, resources, even the balance of power in the northern hemisphere, he takes an impossible ... Read more

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One man's lust for empire sent a team of adventurers into the Arctic - only one came back.1913, the Arctic Circle. Charismatic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson is obsessed with a frozen speck of land in the Siberian Arctic: Wrangel Island. Believing that whoever possesses it will control the future - air routes, resources, even the balance of power in the northern hemisphere, he takes an impossible
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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In this insightful book, explore the interconnected relationship between waste management and air pollution. Delve into the overarching issue of waste and its detrimental effects on our atmosphere. The first section examines the various sources of air pollution that originate from waste management practices. Gain a comprehensive understanding of how ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In this insightful book, explore the interconnected relationship between waste management and air pollution. Delve into the overarching issue of waste and its detrimental effects on our atmosphere. The first section examines the various sources of air pollution that originate from waste management practices. Gain a comprehensive understanding of how
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Reasons For Optimism in Our Changing World

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Unabridged

10 hours 30 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible.We are living in an age of turmoil, destruction and uncertainty. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human expansion has caused the extinction of countless species, and Neoliberalism has led to a destructive divide in wealth and a polarisation of ... Read more

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Rising

Dispatches from the New American Shore

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Unabridged

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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 reportage, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the
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The Britannias

An Island Quest

by Alice Albinia ...

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Unabridged

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Brought to you by Penguin.The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche. From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest reaches of Britain's island topography, once known (wrote Pliny) by the collective term, Britanniae. Sailing over borders, between languages and genres, trespassing through the past ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche. From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest reaches of Britain's island topography, once known (wrote Pliny) by the collective term, Britanniae. Sailing over borders, between languages and genres, trespassing through the past
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Reading the Glass

A Captain's View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships

by Elliot Rappaport ...

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Unabridged

9 hours 49 min

A sea captain’s beautifully written tour of our planet, our oceans, and our ever-changing atmosphereWhat’s in a cloud? Did you know that water vapor is invisible and actually lighter than dry air? What separates a tropical storm from a winter blizzard? And what exactly is El Niño? Elliot Rappaport, a professional captain of traditional sailing ships, has spent three decades at sea, where ... Read more

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A sea captain’s beautifully written tour of our planet, our oceans, and our ever-changing atmosphereWhat’s in a cloud? Did you know that water vapor is invisible and actually lighter than dry air? What separates a tropical storm from a winter blizzard? And what exactly is El Niño? Elliot Rappaport, a professional captain of traditional sailing ships, has spent three decades at sea, where
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Conquering Climate Change Anxiety

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by Daniel I Stein ...

Narrated by Luke Andreen ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Simple Sustainable Living
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2 hours 22 min

***SILVER MEDALIST - GLOBAL BOOKS AWARD***If you’re worried, if you’re stressed, if you’re scared…that just means you know what’s coming next.This book isn’t going to help you stop worrying about climate change. We should all be worrying.But if you are the type of person who feels that action is the cure for anxiety, this book is for you.What do we really need to worry about? How can we actually ... Read more

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Danske dyr i vandhullet

by Jørgen Liljensøe ...

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3 hours 7 min

De danske vandhuller rummer et mangfoldigt dyreliv, som de færreste er klar over. "Danske dyr i vandhullet" beskriver økologien i vandhullerne og omkring 20 dyrearter, der lever der. Mange af de insekter, der bor i vandhullerne, kan også holdes derhjemme, og bogen fortæller om, hvordan man skal indrette et akvarium og fodre insekterne.Den danske forfatter Jørgen Liljensøe blev født i 1943 på ... Read more

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De danske vandhuller rummer et mangfoldigt dyreliv, som de færreste er klar over. "Danske dyr i vandhullet" beskriver økologien i vandhullerne og omkring 20 dyrearter, der lever der. Mange af de insekter, der bor i vandhullerne, kan også holdes derhjemme, og bogen fortæller om, hvordan man skal indrette et akvarium og fodre insekterne.Den danske forfatter Jørgen Liljensøe blev født i 1943 på
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Eat Like a Fish

My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

by Bren Smith ...

Narrated by Bren Smith ...

Unabridged

7 hours 43 min

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 farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement, ... Read more

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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 farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement,
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