Environment & Nature audiobooks

Off-Grid Solar Power Solutions

By: Lucas Bennett

Narrated by: Lucas Bennett

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Off-Grid Solar Power Solutions: Harnessing Renewable Energy for Independent Living" is the best book for people who want to use solar technology to become energy-independent and environmentally friendly. This book goes into great detail about off-grid solar systems. It gives readers useful tips and expert opinions to help them plan, set up, and... Read more

Save the... Penguins

By: Anita Sanchez & Chelsea Clinton

Narrated by: De'Onna Prince & Chelsea Clinton

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguins have marched and waddled their ways into kids' hearts. With this audiobook, listeners can become penguin experts and learn how to save the animals they love. Featuring an introduction from Chelsea Clinton!

Did you know that penguins are the fastest-swimming birds on the planet? How about that their tuxedo-like coloring actually helps... Read more

Limits to Growth

By: Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows & Donella Meadows

Narrated by: Tia Rider

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global ‘overshoot,’ or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers,... Read more

Heart of the Hive

By: Hilary Kearney

Narrated by: Hilary Kearney

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Expert beekeeper and swarm-catcher Hilary Kearney offers a unique window into the social lives and biology of these remarkable creatures

Readers will be awestruck by the hive as superorganism and how the individual bee lives and behaves within it, perfectly suited to each specific job it performs. From their intricate dances and information-rich... Read more

Category Five

By: Porter Fox

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Superstorms, hurricanes, typhoons, and spiraling freak weather: the fallout of global warming is a real-life natural thriller, as captured in Porter Fox’s urgent and stunning story of chasing the world’s most devastating storms.

Here is the story of the largest storms on earth and how those storms are growing bigger and stronger. The tale of... Read more

Planet Aqua

By: Jeremy Rifkin

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we'd been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect is now. Our planetary hydrosphere, which animates all of life on Earth, is rebelling in the wake of a global warming climate, spurring biblical... Read more

Living on Earth

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

Narrated by: Mitch Riley & Peter Godfrey-Smith

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listening to Godfrey-Smith's exploration of animal consciousness will rattle every nook and cranny of your brain with an onslaught of interesting questions...the author leaves listeners with a radical new perspective." —AudioFile on Metazoa

This program is read by the author.

The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors... Read more

Here Comes The Sun

By: Andy McCarthy

Narrated by: Andy McCarthy

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Here Comes the Sun is a story of overcoming adversity, finding a purpose and avoiding the potholes that throw you off course.
When Andy McCarthy left school in Year 10 because of relentless bullying, his career prospects weren't great, but he was determined to prove the doubters wrong. At age 19, he connected his first solar panel and suddenly... Read more

El ajolote - Abridged

By: Andrés Cota Hiriart

Narrated by: Andrés Cota Hiriart

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El ajolote ha despertado el interés constante de gente muy diversa: se ha concebido mitológicamente, comido por placer y usado como remedio; habita en la oscuridad del agua, quizás con discreción, pero es quinta esencial para la cultura del Valle de México. Se ha venerado como fetiche y ha sido la musa involuntaria de toda clase de artistas en... Read more

Staks der Storch

By: Céline Landolt

Narrated by: Céline Landolt

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Der eigensinnige Jungstorch Staks handelt sich immer wieder Ärger mit seinem strengen und etwas übervorsichtigen Vater ein. Als er im Herbst den gemeinsamen Abflug in den Süden verpasst, macht er sich allein auf den Weg nach Afrika. Ob er es noch rechtzeitig zum grossen Familienfest schafft? Adventskalender-Geschichte mit 24 Tracks, einen für... Read more

The Art of Frugal Hedonism

By: Annie Raser-Rowland & Adam Grubb

Narrated by: Alice Ansara

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

It sounds too good to be true: you can save money and the world, inoculate yourself against many of the ills of modern life, and enjoy everything more on both the sensual and profound levels. Preposterous!Yet here is a toolkit to help you do just that. A tweak here, a twiddle there; every strategy in The Art of Frugal Hedonism has been designed... Read more

Shepherd's Sight

By: Barbara McLean

Narrated by: Robin Siegerman

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherd



For fifty years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her seventies, McLean faces a new... Read more

On Trails

By: Robert Moor

Narrated by: Robert Moor

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra Club

From a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a... Read more

Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Robert G. Slade

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature.
Much of Walden's material is derived from Thoreau's journals and contains such engaging pieces as "Reading"... Read more

The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries

By: Donald R. Prothero

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 4.5 billion years, Earth's climate has transformed tremendously. Before our more temperate recent past, the planet swung from one extreme to another—from a greenhouse world of sweltering temperatures and high sea levels to a "snowball earth"in which glaciers reached the equator. During this history, we now know, living things and the... Read more

The Naked Neanderthal

By: Ludovic Slimak

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals? For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in paleoanthropology in which... Read more

Die Plastikflasche

By: Valérie Guillaume

Narrated by: Marco Thiemann

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine namenlose Plastikflasche... Ein Fluss am anderen Ende der Welt... Die endlose Weite des Meeres... Eine abenteuerliche Odyssee beginnt… In einem fernen Land wird eine Plastikflasche in einen Fluss geworfen. Eben noch ein nützlicher Begleiter für durstige Menschen, ist sie plötzlich ungewollt ein Teil des weltweiten Müllproblems. Gibt es ein... Read more

Sustainability and Eco-friendly Practices: Embracing a Greener Lifestyle

By: Rachel Morgan

Narrated by: Rachel Morgan

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

For anyone looking to live more sustainably in the environmentally concerned world of today, "Sustainability and Eco-friendly Practices: Embracing a Greener Lifestyle: Practical Steps to Reduce Your Environmental Impact" is an essential reference. This book offers readers a step-by-step approach to incorporating eco-friendly practices into daily... Read more

Trash Talk

By: Iris Gottlieb

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening, illustrated look at something we often take for granted—our trash, and the systems in place that make it disappear (or not)

In a world of mass consumption and busy schedules, taking the time to understand our own trash habits can be daunting. In Trash Talk, the ever-curious and talented Iris Gottlieb pulls back the curtain on the... Read more

A Woman in the Polar Night

By: Christiane Ritter

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This rediscovered classic memoir tells the incredible tale of a woman defying society's expectations to find freedom and peace in the adventure of a lifetime.



In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it... Read more

Blood Memory

By: Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today—a moving work of natural history inspired by the PBS series American Buffalo



The American buffalo—our nation's official mammal—is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land... Read more

Why Elephants Cry

By: John T. Hancock

Narrated by: Michael Langan

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Why Elephants Cry is a fascinating frolic through the literature and evidence surrounding the use of unusual behavior of animals to measure and predict the environment. The role of animals, from the smallest ant to the biggest elephant, as predictors of environmental changes is framed around the climate crisis, which highlights the increasingly... Read more

When the Ice is Gone

By: Paul Bierman

Narrated by: David Marantz

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world's first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When geologist Paul Bierman and his team first melted a piece of this unique material, they were shocked to find perfectly preserved leaves, twigs, and moss. That observation led them to a startling discovery:... Read more

Southern Wonder

By: R. Scot Duncan

Narrated by: Chris Abernathy

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When all the species of birds, trees, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, wildflowers, dragonflies, tiger beetles, and ants are tallied, Alabama harbors more species than ninety percent of the other states in the US. The state's 4,533 species, with more being inventoried and discovered each year, are supported by no less than sixty-four... Read more