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Journey Into Wisdom
By: Pramila Jayapal
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
India, an ancient culture, has many gifts to share with the western world. Pramila Jayapal, is an Indian-born, Western educated woman, banker turned community activist, who returns to India to explore the complex issues of progress and development, immersing herself in the life of her native land. Read more
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Close to Shore - Abridged
By: Michael Capuzzo
Narrated by: Len Cariou
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.
In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual... Read more
Engaging Creativity / Riding Change
By: David La Chapelle
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
David La Chapelle, an environmental writer and leader of over 150 Wilderness Quests, weaves together insights integrating psychology, meditation, storytelling and the creative process in considering the challenges we face today. Read more
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Best Friends
By: Samantha Glen
Narrated by: Juliette Parker
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover a place where every animal is safe, loved, and allowed to live out its natural life. Here is the inspiring true story of Best Friends, an animal sanctuary a few dedicated people made happen, and thousands of furry and feathered friends have called home. Meet the residents, including Sinjin, the badly burned black cat, and Sparkles, the... Read more
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In the Heart of the Sea
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard.
Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson star in a film based on this National Book Award–winning account of the true events behind... Read more
In the Heart of the Sea - Abridged
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the author of Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard
Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson star in the film based on this National Book Award–winning account of the true events behind Moby Dick.
In 1820, the... Read more
Earth Wisdom
By: Brooke Medicine Eagle
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Ancient, yet new and practical ways of living in harmony with Earth's rhythms provide the focus here with Brooke Medicine Eagle, an American native Earthkeeper, teacher, healer, songwriter, ceremonial leader and sacred ecologist. Read more
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Bioneers Series 2-07: Globalization: The Environment and Living Toward the Local
By: Jerry Mander, Kevin Danaher, Ph.D., Alisa Gravi...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Every dollar we spend is a vote for or against the Earth. These Bioneers call us to recognize that economics is actually a subset of ecology, not the other way around. Behind most environmental harm is an economic motive, so how do we move from the love of money to the love of life? Read more
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Bioneers Series 2-04: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
By: Janine M. Benyus
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Leaders in the fields of agriculture, architecture, the arts, design, physics, engineering, theology, ecology and economics are rediscovering the genius of nature. And it's the genius of nature, they say, that just might save us. Read more
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Bioneers Series 2-13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Alive
By: John Mohawk, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Can a culture built on the infallibility of the rational mind perceive the sacred? Turtle Clan Seneca, John Mohawk, educator and traditional native farmer, is a Bioneer whose work it is to heal the artificial split between spirit and nature, mind and matter, creation and creator. Read more
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Bioneers Series 2-03: Environmental Justice – Rising from the Flames
By: Terri Swearingen, RN, Henry Clark, Ph.D. & Carw...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
From the oil fields in Nigeria to an Ohio school yard downwind from a toxic incinerator, to a Richmond, California community surrounded by industry, these are inspiring stories of tragedy and the heroic victories of everyday people who are standing up to the deadly practices of big business polluters. Read more
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Bioneers Series 2-08: Knowledge From Intimacy: Revaluing The Feminine
By: Paula Gunn Allen, Ph.D., Susan Griffin, Guji Co...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Here we acknowledge the "sheroic" work of 5 women who represent the millions who, in their work for the Earth, embody the "fierce feminine," feminine qualities they say that are in all of us no matter our gender. They are the qualities most called for in these pivotal times. Read more
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Bioneers Series 2-09: Honoring the Heritage of Black Farmers on the Land
By: J.L. Chestnut
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Black farmers have been leaving the land at three and a-half times the rate of other farmers. It turns out that this loss of black farmers is due less to farming policies and practices than it is to generations of institutional racism. Civil Rights attorney J.L. Chestnut, in a brilliant and emotional speech, tells the story of the successful... Read more
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Bioneers Series 2-02: Gaian Wonders of the Co-Evolutionary Dance
By: Jeremy Narby, Ph.D., Steven Foster, Jennifer Gr...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Who needs TV when the waves at the beach are phosphorescing, the fungal internet is pulsing, and the laws of physics are being broken all around us by...water? These Bioneers celebrate the wonders of nature they encounter in their work for the Earth and explore, among other things, "the ocean eye" and variations on a nematode worm. Read more
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Bioneers Series 2-01: Re-Imagining Design: Becoming Tools of Nature
By: William McDonough
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Bill McDonough has long been at the forefront of what he calls "the next industrial revolution." McDonough suggests that the growth/no growth struggle between business interests and environmentalists is absurd. The real question is "what do you want to grow?" Read more
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Bioneers Series 2-12: The Age of Extinction and the Emerging Environmental Health Movement
By: Michael Lerner
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Who doesn't know someone touched by the nightmare of cancer? Scientists have proven that 70-90% of cancers are caused by environmental factors. Why is it so hard to fathom that human health and the health of the Earth are inseparable? The Environmental Health Movement could become THE most potent force for restoring the Earth. Read more
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Bioneers Series 2-06: Rewilding The Earth: Nurturing The Web Of Life
By: Dave Foreman & Dennis Martinez
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Ecosystems are collapsing and Dave Foreman is working to return large carnivores, "keystone species," like the wolf and the jaguar to the American West. Native American Dennis Martinez is a restorative ecologist, who would say the true "keystone species" has traditionally been indigenous humans. Read more
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Bioneers Series 2-11: Global Green Plan and Urban Design
By: Mark Hertsgaard & Francesca Vietor
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Solutions, solutions, solutions. From the Global Green Deal, a comprehensive plan for restoring the Earth, to the inspiring programs and policies of one city that is going green. This program is full of practical strategies to turn eco-centered visions into living realities that deliver jobs and profits. Read more
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Bioneers Series 2-05: Tree of Knowledge - Tree of Life: Towards an Agriculture of Relationships
By: Joel Salatin, Fred Kirschenmann & Wes Jackson
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Agriculture, or industrial farming, as it is practiced today, may be the single most destructive human activity against the Earth that we currently employ. In response, a movement toward Restorative Farming, that looks to nature for its direction, is gaining momentum. Read more
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Bioneers Series 2-10: First Nations and the Future of the Earth
By: Rebecca Adamson, Paula Gunn Allen, Ph.D. & John...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Indigenous peoples were the first "Bioneers" who worked with nature in a reciprocal relationship -- giving back as much as they took. This program highlights startling new studies that have identified "biodiversity hotspots" around the globe, lands that are critical to the health of the biosphere, lands which are under the care of indigenous... Read more
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A Walk in the Woods - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to... Read more
Kenya: Taking it Personally
By: Wantari Maathai, James Orengo & Amina Bakari
Narrated by: Christina Fleming
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Sitting in her Kenyan homestay as an exchange student, Christina Fleming set the intention to share the Kenyan peoples' stories in their own voice. You will hear from several Kenyan leaders as well as a Nairobi family sitting in their living room. Read more
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Heart Of A Heroine: Saving The Last Redwoods
By: Julia Butterfly Hill
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Julia 'Butterfly' Hill's remarkable and triumphant 738 day tree-sit atop the 1,000 year old, 200 foot tall redwood tree she named "Luna", ended December 18, 1999, when she negotiated a deal to save the ancient tree with Pacific Lumber, a division of the Maxxam Corporation, who owns the land on which "Luna" stands. Hill's exuberant and... Read more
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Spiritual Ecology
By: Thom Hartmann
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet a man who has helped set up hospitals, famine relief programs, schools and communities for orphaned and blind children on five continents: Thom Hartmann. He describes scenes that may bring tears to your eyes, but will awaken your heart to matters that cry out for our attention. Read more
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