Environmental Cities

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    • Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
    • By: Anna Clark
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • In Anna Clark's full account of this American tragedy, The Poisoned City recounts the gripping story of Flint’s poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city....

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    • Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
    • By: Mario Alejandro Ariza
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City - a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide....

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    • Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
    • By: Deb Chachra
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes listeners on a fascinating tour of essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs....

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    • New York City and the Catskills (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
    • By: David Stradling
    • Narrated by: Paul E Silbermann
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • For over 200 years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process....

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    • A Novel
    • By: K.T. Tomb
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • Take one massive, futuristic oil rig off the coast of San Clemente, California. Mix in eco-terrorists who see it as an abomination against nature. ...

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    • A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
    • By: Mona Hanna-Attisha
    • Narrated by: Mona Hanna-Attisha
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 730 ratings
    • Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water - and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash....

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    • How a Small Seed Can Change the World
    • By: Ash Rowan
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • In the futuristic city of Greyville, where smog fills the air and nature seems to have disappeared, three friends—Maddie, Joey, and Charlie—set...

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    • Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America's Coasts
    • By: Gilbert M. Gaul
    • Narrated by: Gilbert M. Gaul, Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • This century has seen the costliest hurricanes in US history - but who bears the brunt of these monster storms? Consider this: Five of the most expensive hurricanes in history have made landfall since 2005....

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    • How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
    • By: Gaia Vince
    • Narrated by: Gaia Vince
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • While the planetary emergency of climate change is finally getting the attention it deserves, the inevitability of mass migration has been largely ignored. In Nomad Century, Gaia Vince provides, for the first time, an examination of the most pressing question facing humanity....

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    • A Practical Guide to Transforming City Waste into Environmental Treasure
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • Transform your kitchen scraps and urban lifestyle into a lush, green revolution with "Urban Compost Alchemy," the definitive guide to mastering the...

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    • An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply
    • By: David Soll
    • Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Empire of Water explores the history of New York City’s water system - from the late 19th century to the early 21st century - focusing on the geographical, environmental, and political repercussions of the city’s search for more water....

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    • Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    • By: Dawn Day Biehler
    • Narrated by: Sarah Mariza
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Biehler argues that urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical features of cities, but also by social inequalities....

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    • Cities and Trees in the American Northeast (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
    • By: Ellen Stroud
    • Narrated by: Diane Neigebauer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of Northeastern forests....

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    • An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
    • By: Joanna L. Dyl
    • Narrated by: Ginger White
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements - earthquake, fires, and recovery - profoundly disrupted the urban order....

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    • A Memoir of Healing
    • By: Clayton Thomas-Muller
    • Narrated by: Clayton Thomas-Muller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada's residential school system....

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    • A New Vision of Land Use in America
    • By: Bruce Babbitt
    • Narrated by: Bruce Babbitt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in....

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    • How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis
    • By: David Miller
    • Narrated by: David Miller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly.

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    • Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West
    • By: Judith Nies
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC....

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