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Cradle to Cradle
by William McDonough
Formats: Audio Download ($15.99) | 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
Formats: 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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Rising Tide
by John M. Barry
Formats: Audio Download ($15.95)
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
Formats: Audio Download ($4.95)
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
Formats: Audio Download ($12.57)
This engaging and authoritative portrait of animals' emotional lives is as groundbreaking as Darwin's Origin of Species...
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Following Nature's Lead
by Jeremy Narby
Formats: Audio Download ($4.95)
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
Formats: Audio Download ($17.95)
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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The Outermost House
by Henry Beston
Formats: Audio Download ($19.95)
In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. He had not intended to stay longer, but, as he later wrote, "I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not go."
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Blessed Unrest
by Paul Hawken
Formats: Audio Download ($19.95)
Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice.
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A Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
Blending the poet's soul with the prophet's vision, this collection of writings about Leopold's experiences on his farm along the Wisconsin River is a clarion call to preserve natural habitat. It's as profound and timely today as when it first appeared over 50 years ago.
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