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Cradle to Cradle
by William McDonough
Available on: Audio Download ($15.99) | Audio CD | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Reduce, reuse, recycle, urge environmentalists. In other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in this provocative book that this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates back to the Industrial Revolution, a model that casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic.
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Earth in the Balance
by Al Gore
Available on: Audio Download ($10.47)
Before becoming Vice President, Al Gore spent 15 years leading the fight in Congress to save the...
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The Future of Life
by Edward O. Wilson
Available on: Audio Download ($24.47) | Audio CD
From one of the world's most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author) comes his most timely and important book yet...
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Global Warming, Global Threat
by Michael B. McElroy
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The issue of global warming has captured the attention of people worldwide over the past 20 years. Scientists studying the effects of human activities on the global environment today believe we are changing the climate of the planet on a global basis.
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Rising Tide
by John M. Barry
Available on: Audio Download ($15.95) | Audio CD
An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known, the Mississippi flood of 1927.
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Living Systems
by Fritjof Capra
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
A new scientific understanding of life at all levels of living systems is currently evolving. At its heart is the awareness that everything is interconnected and interrelated.
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When Elephants Weep
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Available on: Audio Download ($12.57) | Audio Cassette
This engaging and authoritative portrait of animals' emotional lives is as groundbreaking as Darwin's Origin of Species...
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Fueling the Planet
by Michael B. McElroy
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Renowned professor Michael B. McElroy leads a comprehensive examination of energy, including its history, use in the world today, and environmental consequences.
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Following Nature's Lead
by Jeremy Narby
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
The essence of nature may not be the competitive struggle for survival we have been taught to believe.
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Field Notes From a Catastrophe
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Available on: Audio Download ($17.95) | Audio CD
Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate.
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