Best Sellers
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Abundance
- The Future Is Better Than You Think
- Written by: Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9
Authors Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even though it's older ideas still very relevant
- By Joe on 2022-12-19
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- Written by: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good but not excellent
- By Taras T. on 2019-11-14
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Speed & Scale
- An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
- Written by: John Doerr, Ryan Panchadsaram
- Narrated by: John Doerr, Sundar Pichai, Margot Brown, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it.” Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this existential problem....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A lifelong investment stud; John Doerr
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-12-09
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Bold
- How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World
- Written by: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Narrated by: Steven Kotler
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 67
Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rapid Evolution!
- By Steve on 2018-08-18
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- Written by: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book!
- By Sschonwa on 2023-06-23
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- Written by: Bill Gates
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 607
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 489
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 485
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Who's this for?
- By SB The Student on 2021-02-21
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Abundance
- The Future Is Better Than You Think
- Written by: Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9
Authors Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even though it's older ideas still very relevant
- By Joe on 2022-12-19
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- Written by: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good but not excellent
- By Taras T. on 2019-11-14
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Speed & Scale
- An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
- Written by: John Doerr, Ryan Panchadsaram
- Narrated by: John Doerr, Sundar Pichai, Margot Brown, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it.” Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this existential problem....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A lifelong investment stud; John Doerr
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-12-09
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Bold
- How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World
- Written by: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Narrated by: Steven Kotler
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 67
Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rapid Evolution!
- By Steve on 2018-08-18
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- Written by: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book!
- By Sschonwa on 2023-06-23
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- Written by: Bill Gates
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 607
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 489
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 485
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Who's this for?
- By SB The Student on 2021-02-21
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Zero Waste Home
- The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste
- Written by: Bea Johnson
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4 out of 5 stars 64
In Zero Waste Home, Bea Johnson shares the story of how she simplified her life by reducing her waste....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some good ideas some not.
- By me on 2020-02-22
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Wasteland
- The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
- Written by: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
- Narrated by: Chris Harper
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry—the secretive multi-billion dollar world that underpins the modern economy, quietly profiting from what we leave behind....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential listening
- By Beatrice Miu on 2023-10-12
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Where the Water Goes
- Life and Death Along the Colorado River
- Written by: David Owen
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 2
The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland....
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American Trash
- Hard-Earned Lessons from a Heartland Entrepreneur
- Written by: Nate Morris
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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A lesson-packed success story for the twenty-first century, from a ninth-generation Kentuckian who imported the Silicon Valley playbook to the heartland, American Trash reveals how the entrepreneurial mindset can be applied anywhere, and even to our most stubborn industries....
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Fashionopolis
- The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
- Written by: Dana Thomas
- Narrated by: Dana Thomas
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
In Fashionopolis, Thomas sees renewal in a host of developments, including printing 3-D clothes, clean denim processing, smart manufacturing, hyperlocalism, fabric recycling - even lab-grown materials....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating!
- By Anonymous User on 2021-04-27
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Essential Rainwater Harvesting
- A Guide to Home-Scale System Design (Sustainable Building Essentials Series, Book 11)
- Written by: Rob Avis, Michelle Avis
- Narrated by: Nate Drury
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Essential Rainwater Harvesting is a comprehensive manual for designing, building, and maintaining water-harvesting systems for the warm and cold climates of the world....
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The End of Growth
- Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
- Written by: Richard Heinberg
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Good Listen
- By Zane Gates on 2021-01-28
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Unraveled
- The Life and Death of a Garment
- Written by: Maxine Bedat
- Narrated by: Maxine Bedat
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth - and death - of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet....
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Secondhand
- Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
- Written by: Adam Minter
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 8
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
In Secondhand, Adam Minter delves into the vast, multibillion-dollar industry that resells used stuff around the world. He follows the trail of unwanted objects from the closets, garages, and storage units of Middle America to epic used-goods markets in Canada, Mexico, and beyond....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Read by robot Will Shatner
- By GiantSquid! on 2021-11-29
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Get Abundance
- Why Your Future Is Brighter Than You Think
- Written by: Peter Diamandis
- Narrated by: Peter Diamandis
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3
How would you like to be the center of a massive outpouring of wealth, innovation, success, and prosperity....
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The Unnatural World
- The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age
- Written by: David Biello
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
The Unnatural World examines the world we have created and analyzes the glimmers of hope emerging from the efforts of incredible individuals seeking to change our future....
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Water 4.0
- The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
- Written by: David Sedlak
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges....
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A Poison Like No Other
- How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
- Written by: Matt Simon
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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It's in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It's microplastic and it's everywhere—including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming....
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Wasted
- How We Squander Time, Money, and Natural Resources-and What We Can Do About It
- Written by: Byron Reese, Scott Hoffman
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Wasted is a riveting exploration of the complicated, and often surprising, ways that waste occurs in our businesses, our communities, and our lives....
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Inconspicuous Consumption
- The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
- Written by: Tatiana Schlossberg
- Narrated by: Tatiana Schlossberg
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
With urgency and wit, Tatiana Schlossberg explains that far from being only a distant problem of the natural world created by the fossil fuel industry, climate change is all around us, all the time, lurking everywhere in our convenience-driven society, all without our realizing it....
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The Big Necessity
- The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
- Written by: Rose George
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Acclaimed as "extraordinary" (The New York Times) and "a classic" (Los Angeles Times), The Big Necessity is on its way to removing the taboo on bodily waste - something common to all and as natural as breathing....
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Net Zero
- How We Stop Causing Climate Change
- Written by: Dieter Helm
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
What can we really do about the climate emergency? The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon-intensive lifestyles and that fixing - or even just slowing - it will affect all of us. But it can be done.
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The Great Indoors
- The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
- Written by: Emily Anthes
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4
In this wide-ranging, character-driven audiobook, science-journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound and sometimes unexpected ways that they shape our lives....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I liked this book so much i bought an actual copy
- By Stephanie Poole on 2021-01-28
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Power
- Limits and Prospects for Human Survival
- Written by: Richard Heinberg
- Narrated by: David Skulski
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: Tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources - most significantly, fossil fuels....
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Junkyard Planet
- Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
- Written by: Adam Minter
- Narrated by: William Elsman
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
Adam Minter - veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner - travels deep into a vast, often hidden, 500-billion-dollar industry that’s transforming our economy and environment....
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Electric Revolution
- Myths & Truths About Electric Vehicles and Climate Disaster
- Written by: Aidan McClean
- Narrated by: James Coyle
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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This comprehensively researched book reveals the truth behind climate change and the role internal combustion engines and Big Oil had in affecting it....
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Troubled Water
- What's Wrong with What We Drink
- Written by: Seth M. Siegel
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
New York Times best-selling author Seth Siegel tells how contaminants got in our drinking water, what they’re doing to us, and what we must do to make our water safe....
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The Conundrum
- How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse
- Written by: David Owen
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4 out of 5 stars 21
Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent lightbulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've been told about being green is wrong....
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5 out of 5 stars
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We're in trouble
- By Brad Lockey on 2019-06-19
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Garbage Land
- On the Secret Trail of Trash
- Written by: Elizabeth Royte
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Royte, Jennifer Aquino
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away? In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on the wild adventure that begins once our trash hits the bottom of the can....