Future Earth

In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public’s imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, resource scarcity, and famine—with apocalyptic consequences for humanity.

This unique collection brings together nature poems by poet and writer, Wayne Visser, celebrating the diversity, beauty and ever-changing moods of our planet. The anthology includes many old favourites like "I Think I Was a Tree Once" and "A Bug's Life", as well as brand new poems like "Monet's Dream" and "The Environmentalist". Then as we turned our faces to the moon Our hands entwined, our hearts in sync, in tune We felt the fingers of the silken breeze And made our wishes on the falling leaves

Here are nine tales of Henghis Hapthorn, foremost freelance discriminator of Old Earth in the planet's penultimate age. Included are the six stories that ran in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (and were previously collected in The Gist Hunter and Other Stories), leading up to the events that began the first Hapthorn novel, Majestrum, plus three more.

It all begins with a simple search and rescue mission that quickly goes horribly wrong. Nikola Papandreou, ace troubleshooter for the United Nations suddenly finds himself at war in a strange alternate world, facing magic users, monsters and deity wanna-be’s enough to drive him crazy. What’s worse, he can’t decide if he’s fighting for the right side as he struggles to save a world gone mad.

Long dismissed as a relic of a bygone era, coal is back -- with a vengence. Coal is one of the nation's biggest and most influential industries -- Big Coal provides more than half the electricity consumed by Americans today -- and its dominance is growing, driven by rising oil prices and calls for energy independence. Is coal the solution to America's energy problems?

We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society set us on a path to certain self-destruction. In this profound new audiobook, Korten shares the results of his search for a story that reflects the fullness of human knowledge and understanding and provides a guide to action adequate to the needs of our time.

Satellites may exist out in space, but they let us study Earth from the outside looking in. From climate change to natural disasters and more, find out how scientists are using satellites to tackle some of our world's most challenging problems.

Ever since we first started discovering dinosaurs in the early 1800s, our obsession for uncovering everything about these creatures has been insatiable. Each generation has made huge strides in trying to better our understanding of these animals, and in the past 20 years, we have made more discoveries than in the previous 200. There have been extraordinary advances in palaeontological methods, and ever more dinosaur fossils promise a landslide of new data and huge leaps forward in our understanding of these incredible animals.

In 2017, Avi Loeb, Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, went public with a theory that shook the scientific community - our solar system has been visited by advanced alien technology. His provocative and persuasive argument (and internationally bestselling book Extraterrestrial) has opened thousands of minds to the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth. This book tackles the huge question of what happens next?

What if your future was a nightmare you could still prevent? Can a nation on the brink be saved by going back in time? What happens when division goes too far? Could your country collapse from within while you're not looking? And if given the chance, would we make better choices—or repeat our mistakes? Author Aithal, known for The Galaxy Series, crafts powerful speculative fiction grounded in emotional truths and social insight. Now he brings us a gripping vision of tomorrow gone wrong—and a daring mission to rewrite the past before it’s too late. Divided States of America is a ...

Helen Southcote is looking for a purpose to life through her Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence work on the United Nations Space Station when she watches the Earth destroyed by an asteroid. What can she do next?

Prepare to embark on a transformative culinary journey with "Earth to Table," the revolutionary eBook that redefines what it means to cook and eat sustainably. Inside this comprehensive guide, you'll uncover the profound connection between the stove in your kitchen and the natural world around you, learning how every ingredient, every method, and every mouthful can contribute to a healthier planet. "Earth to Table" invites you into a world where your food choices become powerful actions for environmental change. Discover the foundations of sustainable cooking in an illuminating opening ...

To the Corinthians, (1 Co. 2:9) the Apostle Paul wrote: “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” But there are gentle ideas suggested throughout Scripture through symbolisms, typologies, and metaphors which are indicative of future events and experiences that await us. Read about some of them here. Future events are cataloged and explained.

Wise, witty and just a little weird, FOOLS ERRANT wryly strolls the satirical path laid down by Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Jack Vance, heralding the brilliant debut of a gifted new voice. Foppish young Filidor Vesh wants only to dally among his shallow pastimes. But a simple errand for his uncle, the vaguely all-powerful Archon of those parts of Old Earth still populated by human beings, becomes a frenetic odyssey across a planet speckled with eccentric nations pursuing odd aims with intense determination. Harried at every step by the irascible dwarf, Gaskarth, and frequently at the...

Weird, wonderful, and sometimes disgusting, figuring out "what's for dinner on Mars" is far from trivial. If we can figure out how to sustain ourselves on Mars, we will know how to do it on Earth too. In Dinner on Mars, authors Fraser and Newman show how setting the table off-planet will supercharge efforts to produce food sustainably here at home. For futurists, sci-fi geeks, tech nuts, business leaders, and anyone interested in the future of food, Dinner on Mars puts sustainability and adaptability on the menu in the face of our climate crisis.

Save Your Life with Creative Caster Oil Did you know that the castor plant has been in use by the human family to support health for at least 24,000 years? If you’ve never particularly thought about castor oil, you may be surprised by some of what you’ll read in Save Your Life with Creative Caster Oil. When you put the easy-to-accomplish, easy-to-understand suggestions into practice, you and your loved ones will experience a strengthened immune system, heightened emotional well-being, and healthy longevity. Castor oil has anti-allergenic, anti-cancer, antidiabetic, antihistamine, anti-...

We are all Future Ancestors, and we must nurture and protect our Mother Earth. Through insightful stories and life lessons, First Nations woman of the Mutti Mutti tribe Annabelle Sharman will guide you to unravel a piece of who you truly are from within, to see and feel through your ancestors' eyes, heart and spirit, and to embrace the responsibility of creating a better world for future generations.

From the secret fossils of London to the three-billion-year-old rocks of the Scottish Highlands, and from state-of-the-art Californian laboratories to one of the world's most dangerous volcanic complexes hidden beneath the green hills of western Naples, set out on an adventure to those parts of the world where the Earth's life-story is written into the landscape. Helen Gordon turns a novelist's eye on the extraordinary scientists who are piecing together this planetary drama.

Are you ready for the greatest technological awakening since the birth of the internet? In Manifested AI™: The Robotic Awakening That Will Transform Earth and Wealth, Dr. Benoît Tano, MD, PhD, delivers the most comprehensive, well-researched, and authoritative guide to the next industrial revolution — where artificial intelligence breaks out of the digital realm and takes physical form. From Tesla’s stunning Optimus G3 humanoid robot to Elon Musk’s secretive Project Colossus supercomputers, from Nvidia’s unstoppable AI chips to the next wave of humanoid labor that will change how...

In another sparkling and slightly askew adventure in the mode of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams and Jack Vance, Fools Errant's Filidor Vesh sashays once more through the penultimate age, finding that... LOVE IS A MANY SPLINTERED THING The dandified Archon's apprentice is literally bowled over by beautiful Emmlyn Podarke -- she knocks him flat and steals his credentials, daring him to pursue her to a remote and mostly forgotten corner of Old Earth. Now Filidor must cope with philosophical pirates, prophet-seeking aliens, light-fingered mummers, and a tiny, bothersome voice in his left ear. ...