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The Wizard and the Prophet Audiobook by Charles C. Mann
Tuesday, January 9, 2018 • Duration 18:56:00
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Title: The Wizard and the Prophet
Subtitle: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
Author: Charles C. Mann
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-09-18
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 12 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Environment
Publisher's Summary:
From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493 - an incisive portrait of the two little-known 20th-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the 21st century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.
In 40 years, Earth's population will reach 10 billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups - Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces - food, water, energy, climate change - grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.
Critic Reviews:
"A fascinating story of two forgotten men whose ideas changed our understanding of humanity's place in nature.
The Wizard and the Prophet is an intellectual history of the clash between techno-optimists and environmentalists, but it's also the very personal story of two thinkers, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt. Mann offers a sympathetic, nuanced way to understand one of the fundamental debates of our time: How will 10 billion humans live sustainably on Earth, when our demands for energy and food are growing? This book showcases an important new kind of futurism, which looks to the past to understand how we'll survive. Never preachy nor dogmatic, Mann asks his readers to do the most difficult thing possible: choose a path to a better world, by consulting your own conscience." (Annalee Newitz, editor,
Ars Technica )
Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment Audiobook by Jody Butterfield, Allan Savory
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 • Duration 17:17:00
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Title: Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment
Subtitle: Third Edition
Author: Jody Butterfield, Allan Savory
Narrator: Paul W. Griffiths
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-20-17
Publisher: ACX
Genres: Science & Technology, Environment
Publisher's Summary:
Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger problem, he warns, is our mismanagement of resources. Livestock grazing is not the problem; it's how we graze livestock. If we don't change the way we approach land management, irreparable harm from climate change could continue long after we replace fossil fuels with environmentally benign energy sources.
Holistic management is a systems-thinking approach for managing resources, developed by Savory decades ago after observing the devastation of desertification in his native Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Properly managed livestock are key to restoring the world's grassland soils, the major sink for atmospheric carbon, and minimizing the most damaging impacts on humans and the natural world.
This audiobook updates Savory's paradigm-changing vision for reversing desertification, stemming the loss of biodiversity, eliminating fundamental causes of human impoverishment throughout the world, and climate change. Reorganized chapters make it easier for listeners to understand the framework for holistic management and the four key insights that underlie it.
This long-anticipated new edition is written for new generations of ranchers, farmers, ecological and social entrepreneurs, and development professionals working to address global environmental and social degradation. It offers new hope that a sustainable future for humankind and the world we depend on is within reach.
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Cows Save the Planet Audiobook by Judith D. Schwartz
Tuesday, December 5, 2017 • Duration 10:57:00
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Title: Cows Save the Planet
Subtitle: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
Author: Judith D. Schwartz
Narrator: Judith D. Schwartz
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-05-17
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Environment
Publisher's Summary:
In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems - climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity - there are positive, alternative scenarios to the degradation and devastation we face. In each case, our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil.
Drawing on the work of thinkers and doers, renegade scientists and institutional whistleblowers from around the world, Schwartz challenges much of the conventional thinking about global warming and other problems. For example, land can suffer from undergrazing as well as overgrazing, since certain landscapes, such as grasslands, require the disturbance from livestock to thrive. Regarding climate, when we focus on carbon dioxide, we neglect the central role of water in soil - "green water" - in temperature regulation. And much of the carbon dioxide that burdens the atmosphere is not the result of fuel emissions, but from agriculture; returning carbon to the soil not only reduces carbon dioxide levels but also enhances soil fertility.
Cows Save the Planet is at once a primer on soil's pivotal role in our ecology and economy, a call to action, and an antidote to the despair that environmental news so often leaves us with.
Thirst for Power: Energy, Water, and Human Survival Audiobook by Michael E. Webber
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 • Duration 08:34:00
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Title: Thirst for Power: Energy, Water, and Human Survival
Author: Michael E. Webber
Narrator: Tom Pile
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-15-17
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Environment
Publisher's Summary:
How changing the way we think about water and energy can secure the long-term sustainability of both precious resources.
Although it is widely understood that energy and water are the worlds two most critical resources, their vital interconnections and vulnerabilities are less often recognized. This farsighted audiobook offers a new, holistic way of thinking about energy and water - a big picture approach that reveals the interdependence of the two resources, identifies the seriousness of the challenges, and lays out an optimistic approach with an array of solutions to ensure the continuing sustainability of both.
Michael Webber, a leader and teacher in the field of energy technology and policy, explains how energy and water supplies are linked and how problems in either can be crippling for the other. He shows that current population growth, economic growth, climate change, and shortsighted policies are likely to make things worse. Yet, Webber asserts, more integrated planning with long-term sustainability in mind can avert such a daunting future. Combining anecdotes and personal stories with insights into the latest science of energy and water, he identifies a hopeful path toward wise, long-range water-energy decisions and a more reliable and abundant future for humanity.
Published by Yale University Press.
This is an important and deeply readable book. - Susan Tierney, Analysis Group
A wide-ranging, nuanced view of difficult but important issues that require serious consideration at every level, from policymakers, opinion shapers, and educators down to everyday citizens. - Kirkus Reviews
Concise, relevant, and engaging - Choice
Kiss the Ground Audiobook by Josh Tickell, John Mackey - foreword
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 • Duration 11:52:00
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Title: Kiss the Ground
Subtitle: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World
Author: Josh Tickell, John Mackey - foreword
Narrator: Josh Tickell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-14-17
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 22 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Environment
Publisher's Summary:
Discover the hidden power soil has to reverse climate change and how a regenerative farming diet not only delivers us better health and wellness but also rebuilds our most precious resource - the very ground that feeds us.
Josh Tickell, one of America's most celebrated documentary filmmakers and director of Fuel, has dedicated most of his life to saving the environment. Now, in Kiss the Ground, he explains an incredible truth: By changing our diets to a soil-nourishing, regenerative agriculture diet, we can reverse global warming, harvest healthy, abundant food, and eliminate the poisonous substances that are harming our children, our pets, our bodies, and ultimately our planet.
Through fascinating and accessible interviews with celebrity chefs, ranchers, farmers, and top scientists, this remarkable book, soon to be a full-length documentary film narrated by Woody Harrelson, will teach you how to become an agent in humanity's single most important and time sensitive mission. Reverse climate change and effectively save the world - all through the choices you make in how and what to eat.
The Inner Life of Animals Audiobook by Peter Wohlleben
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 • Duration 07:23:00
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Title: The Inner Life of Animals
Subtitle: Love, Grief, and Compassion: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
Author: Peter Wohlleben
Narrator: Mike Grady
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-08-17
Publisher: Novel Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Environment
Publisher's Summary:
Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, The Inner Life of Animals weaves the latest scientific research into how animals interact with the world with Peter Wohlleben's personal experiences in forests and fields.
Horses feel shame, deer grieve, and goats discipline their kids. Ravens call their friends by name, rats regret bad choices, and butterflies choose the very best places for their children to grow up.
In this, his latest book, Peter Wohlleben follows the hugely successful The Hidden Life of Trees with insightful stories into the emotions, feelings, and intelligence of animals around us. Animals are different from us in ways that amaze us - and they are also much closer to us than we ever would have thought.
Critic Reviews:
"Like
The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben's
The Inner Life of Animals will rock your world. Surprising, humbling, and filled with delight, this book shows us that animals think, feel and know in much the same way as we do - and that their lives are, to them, as precious as ours are to us." (Sy Montgomery, author of
The Soul of an Octopus)
"With the same charm and clarity that drew so many readers to
The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben has produced another gem. I found delight on every page, thanks to the author's rare skill at blending scientific discoveries with his own wealth of insightful personal experiences. Read this book, and never again doubt that we share the Earth with other beings living rich and colorful lives." (Jonathan Balcombe, author of
What a Fish Knows)
"Animal lovers everywhere will be enthralled by
The Inner Life of Animals. Find out what squirrels, deer, and other animals really do out in the woods." (Temple Grandin)
Warnings Audiobook by Richard A. Clarke, R.P. Eddy
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 • Duration 12:44:00
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Title: Warnings
Subtitle: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
Author: Richard A. Clarke, R.P. Eddy
Narrator: L.J. Ganser
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-07-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Environment
Publisher's Summary:
Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the US economy, and possibly the fate of civilization.
In Greek mythology Cassandra foresaw calamities, but was cursed by the gods to be ignored. Modern-day Cassandras clearly predicted the disasters of Katrina, Fukushima, the Great Recession, the rise of ISIS, and many more. Like the mythological Cassandra, they were ignored. There are others right now warning of impending disasters, but how do we know which warnings are likely to be right?
Through riveting explorations in a variety of fields, the authors - both accomplished CEOs and White House National Security Council veterans - discover a method to separate the accurate Cassandras from the crazy doomsayers. They then investigate the experts who today are warning of future disasters: the threats from artificial intelligence, bio-hacking, mutating viruses, and more, and whose calls are not being heeded. Clarke's and Eddy's penetrating insights are essential for any person, any business, or any government that doesn't want to be a blind victim of tomorrow's catastrophe.
Critic Reviews:
"
Warnings is an important book, vividly presenting a way for leaders to make crucial decisions." (Henry Kissinger)
The Water Will Come Audiobook by Jeff Goodell
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 • Duration 09:02:00
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Title: The Water Will Come
Subtitle: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Author: Jeff Goodell
Narrator: Ian Ferguson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-25-17
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 80 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Environment
Publisher's Summary:
An eye-opening and essential tour of the vanishing world
What if Atlantis wasn't a myth but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages. With each crack in the great ice sheets of the Arctic and Antarctica and each tick upward of Earth's thermometer, we are moving closer to the brink of broad disaster.
By century's end, hundreds of millions of people will be retreating from the world's shores as our coasts become inundated and our landscapes transformed. From island nations to the world's major cities, coastal regions will disappear. Engineering projects to hold back the water are bold and may buy some time. Yet, despite international efforts and tireless research, there is no permanent solution - no barriers to erect or walls to build - that will protect us in the end from the drowning of the world as we know it.
The Water Will Come is the definitive account of the coming water, why and how this will happen, and what it will all mean. As he travels across 12 countries and reports from the front lines, acclaimed journalist Jeff Goodell employs fact, science, and first-person, on-the-ground journalism to show vivid scenes from what already is becoming a water world.
Critic Reviews:
"In this engaging book, environmental writer Goodell points out that while sea levels have always risen and fallen, the current rise is driven primarily by the dramatically accelerating melting of the arctic ice caps, and with so many cities on seashores, this will be devastating." (
Booklist)
"Jeff Goodell has taken on some of the most important issues of our time, from coal mining to geoengineering. In
The Water Will Come, he explains the threat of sea level rise with characteristic rigor and intelligence. The result is at once deeply persuasive and deeply unsettling." (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning and
New York Times best-selling author of
The Sixth Extinction)
L'ecologia del profondo: Intervista ad Arne Naess Audiolibro di Simone Bedetti
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Title: How to Read Nature
Subtitle: An Expert's Guide to Discovering the Outdoors You've Never Noticed
Author: Tristan Gooley
Narrator: Qarie Marshall
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-03-17
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Environment
Publisher's Summary:
Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides to shut down their senses and stumble through each day in an oblivious bubble, and yet some people end up having much richer experiences than others. In this guidebook, natural navigator Tristan Gooley strives to reawaken our senses to help us understand and deepen our personal experience of nature.
His message is to connect - however we can and to whatever draws us in. Some listeners will find they have a knack for predicting rain or, after 10 minutes of trying to draw a tree, that they will never look at trees the same way again. For others, the landscape will come to life once they see everything from butterflies to bears as locked in a Darwinian struggle for survival.
By pairing his philosophy - that there's much more to nature than meets the eye if we know where and how to look - with 15 simple get-out-the-door exercises, Gooley invites listeners who have shared his previous adventures to go out and make their own discoveries.
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