The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet, By Henry Fountain. New York: Crown, 2017

The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World, By Oliver Morton. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2015

A World to Live In: An Ecologist�s Vision for a Plundered Planet, By George M. Woodwell. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2016

Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, By Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2015

Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever By Maude Barlow. New York City: The New Press, 2014

The Great Reversal: How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet By David Edward Tabachnick. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013

The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People By Neil Shubin. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2013.

Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material By Robert Courland. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2011.

Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet By Tim Flannery. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011

NewsBriefs: Scientists Discover Water-Covered Planet

Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives By Michael Specter. New York City: Penguin Press, 2009;

The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet By Heidi Cullen. New York City: HarperCollins, 2010.

NewsBriefs: Earthlike Planet Discovered (MSNBC.com)

Corebits: Allied Organizations � In Memoriam; See our Planet from Orbit in Earth From Space

Short Takes: A Sustainable Future for the Planet

Development of a Partial Gravity Lunar Airlock
The Planetary Projects Office (PPO) at the Johnson Space Center is developing design reference missions for human exploration of the Moon and Mars. Missions for both planets require a...

Global Environmental Change: Geoengineering Technology
The `overview effect,' looking at the entire Planet Earth from space, has communicated the reality of the limited extent of our environment and its apparent fragility. Space continues...

Resource Recovery Facilities for Earth Approaching Comets
Mankind's next large resource location may be off the planet. The facilities required for mining and material processing offer interesting concepts for the development of mankind's first...

Mars Terraformation Revisited
This report is a look into the future; not only that of the solar system, but of humans. With the goal of changing Mars into a living planet, we also have to face the change of the human...

Is It Possible to Colonize Mars?
Is it possible to colonize the planet Mars? A planet that is believed to be the most clement planet in the solar system, next to Earth. Despite the fact that it is a very clement planet,...

 

 

 

 

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