Environment & Nature audiobooks

Green Mama

By: Tracey Bianchi

Narrated by: Tracey Bianchi & Rev. Tracey Bianchi

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Moms today are busier than ever. Taking care of the planet sounds like a great idea—but in the midst of taking care of your kids, it becomes just one more thing to feel guilty about not doing. Tracey Bianchi knows what it’s like to live in the middle of suburbia with a to-do list too long to write down. In this unabridged audio download of Green... Read more

People Over Profit

By: Dale Partridge

Narrated by: Dale Partridge

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Serial entrepreneur and business visionary Dale Partridge reveals seven core beliefs that create success by putting people first.Every day major headlines tell the story of a new and better American marketplace. Established corporations have begun reevaluating the quality of their products, the ethics of their supply chain, and how they can give... Read more

Green to Gold

By: Daniel C. Esty & Andrew S. Winston

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Green to Gold is an essential guide for forward-thinking business leaders who see the Green Wave coming and want to profit from it. This audio explores what every executive must know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and business. Based on the authors’ years of experience and hundreds of interviews with corporate leaders... Read more

Ivory's Ghosts

By: John Frederick Walker

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before gold and gemstones held allure, humans were drawn to the “jewels of the elephant” – its great tusks. Ivory is a supreme organic treasure, prized throughout the world for its pale, lustrous beauty and ability to be finely carved. In Ivory’s Ghosts, John Frederick Walker layers rich history and firsthand reportage to tell the... Read more

The Vegetarian Myth

By: Lierre Keith

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

We’ve been told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in The Vegetarian Myth, she argues that we’ve been led astray - not by our longings for a just and sustainable world, but by our ignorance.The truth is that... Read more

Global Weirdness

By: Climate Central

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Produced by Climate Central—a highly regarded independent, nonprofit journalism and research organization founded in 2008—and reviewed by scientists at major educational and research institutions the world over, Global Weirdness summarizes, in clear and accessible prose, everything we already know about the science of climate change; explains... Read more

Heart of a Lion

By: William Stolzenburg

Narrated by: Mike DelGaudio

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England’s forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion.Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor from a bygone century when lions last roamed the... Read more

Edible

By: Daniella Martin

Narrated by: Daniella Martin

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Insects. They’re what’s for dinner. Can you imagine a world in which that simple statement is not only true but in fact an unremarkable part of daily life? Daniella Martin, entomophagist and blogger, can.In this rollicking excursion into the world of edible insects, Martin takes us to the front lines of the next big trend in the global food... Read more

Get Big Fast and Do More Good

By: Ido Leffler & Lance Kalish

Narrated by: Nico Evers-Swindell

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Get Big Fast and Do More Good is a guide to modern entrepreneurship and accelerated brand-building from the founders of Yes To Inc, the company behind the breakthrough natural beauty brand Yes to Carrots.Ido Leffler and Lance Kalish, two 29-year-old Australians with very different backgrounds and skills, cofounded their company in 2006 with... Read more

Beyond Magenta

By: Susan Kuklin

Narrated by: Tanya Eby, Nick Podehl, Todd Haberkorn, Roxanne...

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2015 Stonewall Honor BookA groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens.Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and... Read more

The Boom

By: Russell Gold

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The “best all-around book yet on fracking” (San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: “Gold's work is a tour de force of contemporary journalism” (Booklist).First invented in 1947, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has not only become a major source of energy, it is changing the way we use energy, and the energy we use. It is... Read more

American Catch

By: Paul Greenberg

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author of Four Fish Paul Greenberg looks to New York oysters, gulf shrimp, and Alaskan salmon to tell the surprising story of why Americans no longer eat from local watersIn 2005, the United States imported twelve billion dollars’ worth of seafood, nearly double what we had imported ten years earlier. During that same period, our... Read more

Eyes Wide Open

By: Paul Fleischman

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

What's really going on with the environment - in our own backyards and the wider world? Conflicting information is offered by websites, magazines, and documentaries that blur the line between news and opinion. Not every report is reliable; not every interest group is actually composed of concerned citizens. In this dynamic account, award-winning... Read more

Is Shame Necessary?

By: Jennifer Jacquet

Narrated by: Jennifer Jacquet

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgent, illuminating exploration of the social nature of shame, and of the ways in which it might be used, sparingly and pointedly, to promote political change and social reform.In cultures that champion the individual, guilt is advertised as the cornerstone of conscience. Yet while guilt holds individuals to personal standards, it proves... Read more

Rain

By: Cynthia Barnett

Narrated by: Christina Traister

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A natural history of rain, told through a lyrical blend of science, cultural history, and human dramaIt is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of all the world's water. Yet this is the first audiobook to tell the story of rain.Cynthia Barnett's... Read more

The Good Rain

By: Timothy Egan

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics. Read more

Cosmos

By: Carl Sagan

Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Ty...

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOXCosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of... Read more

The Five Roles of a Master Herder

By: Linda Kohanov

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Linda Kohanov, author of the bestselling The Tao of Equus, pioneered a deep understanding of “the way of the horse,” including the extraordinary nonverbal communication of skilled riders and the collaborative power of “herding cultures” through the centuries. She has adapted this profound, time-tested approach to modern life and the... Read more

Birds Singing

By: Greg Cetus

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Birdsong relaxes physically and stimulates cognitively at the same time. People find birdsong relaxing and reassuring because over thousands of years they have learnt when the birds sing they are safe. This natural soundscape is productivity boosting and can be used at work to help focus, improve cognition and reduce tiredness. Gentle birdsong... Read more

Waterfall of Mindfulness

By: Greg Cetus

Narrated by: Greg Cetus

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Waking up in the middle of the night because of some silly worrying thought such as lost car keys or imaginary exam the next day is never fun. Our mind is often fixated on stressful thoughts until we find a way to get rid of them. This technique will help you do just that by rewiring your circuits and reconnecting with sleep. Read more

Mountain Springs

By: Greg Cetus

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine walking along a beautiful mountain stream. You can hear birds singing as the stream rushes by. Light waves of fresh air are cooling your face and the sun warming your back as you keep walking. In the distance you see a beautiful waterfall. You start walking towards this waterfall and begin to feel the mist on your face and hands as you... Read more

Birds Art Life

By: Kyo Maclear

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A writer’s search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to things small and significant.

When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear isn’t seeking the exotic. Rather she discovers joy in the seasonal birds that find their way into view in city parks and... Read more

Animal Wisdom

By: Linda Bender

Narrated by: Ellen Jaffe

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

How is it that pets are able to travel thousands of miles through unknown territory to reunite with their beloved humans? How can dogs detect cancer with up to a 98 percent accuracy rate, and foresee epileptic or diabetic seizures in their owners? How do animals seem to know an earthquake is coming long before the world's best seismologists?
In... Read more

Inheritors of the Earth

By: Chris D. Thomas

Narrated by: Bob Reed

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad.

It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and of course climate change. But in Inheritors of the Earth, biologist Chris Thomas shows that this obscures a more... Read more