{"id":161953,"date":"2025-04-21T09:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=161953"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:08:15","slug":"listening-to-the-earth-environmental-science-audiobooks-on-libby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=161953","title":{"rendered":"Listening to the Earth: Environmental Science audiobooks on Libby"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-161954 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NMC-environmental-science-audiobooks.png\" alt=\"NMC library environmental science audiobooks\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NMC-environmental-science-audiobooks.png 800w, https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NMC-environmental-science-audiobooks-480x240.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find these audiobooks and more on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libbyapp.com\/library\/omia\/curated-1671538\/page-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NMC Library\u2019s Libby app<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If you\u2019re new to Libby, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/teaching.nmc.edu\/student\/libby-by-overdrive-account-setup-audiobook-and-ebook-platform\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">follow these instructions to set up your account<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World by Oliver Milman<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>\u201c[The Insect Crisis] is a somber book, a catalogue of loss and unravelling, but also a lucid homage to the fabulous utility of insects and a critique of our fixation with backbones\u2026If its visions are sometimes mournful, there is also something wondrous in Milman\u2019s revelation of our fragile dependency on insect life as well as its beauty and strangeness.\u201d <i>\u2013 The Guardian<\/i><\/p>\n<h3><b><\/b><b>Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life by Ferris Jabr<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThis exploration of the Earth as a living entity is lyrical, smart, and will make you appreciate our home planet in countless new ways. It\u2019s really a fascinating book.\u201d\u2014<em>Science Friday<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><b>Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration by Sara Dykman<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;An extraordinary story in which Dykman seamlessly weaves together science, a real love of nature and the adventure and hazards of biking with butterflies from Mexico to Canada and back. They share an epic journey and encounter hardships, but they do not give up. The book is a lament for our thoughtless destruction of nature and at the same time a celebration of the beauty that remains. The migration of the monarch butterflies is one of the wonders of the world\u2014we must save it for future generations.&#8221; \u2014Dr. Jane Goodall<\/p>\n<h3><b>How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World by Ethan Tapper<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>A personal narrative on the importance of forest ecologies by a Vermont forester.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cBraiding Sweetgrass is instructive poetry. Robin Wall Kimmerer has put the spiritual relationship that Chief Seattle called the \u2018web of life\u2019 into writing. Industrial societies lack the understanding of the interrelationships that bind all living things\u2014this book fills that void. I encourage one and all to read these instructions.\u201d\u2014Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper, Onondaga Nation and Indigenous Environmental Leader<\/p>\n<h3><b>Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds &amp; Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cNearly every page of this book contained either an observation so interesting or a turn of phrase so lovely that I was moved to slow down, stop, and reread\u2026 This book rocked me into remembering that nature, especially fungal nature, is big and encompassing and creative and destructive. It reminded me that fungi are, like the Universe, sublime.\u201d \u2014 <i>Science<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find these audiobooks and more on the NMC Library\u2019s Libby app. If you\u2019re new to Libby, follow these instructions to set up your account. 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