Ultrawild : An Audacious Plan to Rewild Every City on Earth

WINNER: 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction book WINNER: 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award SHORTLISTED: 2025 Spark! School Book Awards - Non-Fiction category (UK) SHORTLISTED: 2025 NSW Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature Join maverick inventor Steve Mushin as he tackles climate change with an avalanche of mind-bending, scientifically plausible inventions to rewild cities and save the planet. Jump into his brain as he designs habitat-printing robot birds and water-filtering sewer submarines, calculates how far compost cannons can blast seed bombs (over a kilometre), brainstorms biomaterials with scientists and engineers, studies ecosystems and develops a deadly serious plan to transform cities into jungles, rewilding them into carbon-sucking mega-habitats for all species, and as fast as possible. Through marvellously designed and hilarious engineering ideas, Mushin shares his vision for super-high-tech urban rewilding, covering the science of climate change, futuristic materials and foods, bio reactors, soil, forest ecosystems, mechanical flight, solar thermal power and working out just how fast we could actually turn roads into jungles, absorb carbon and reverse climate change. Developed over seven years, Ultrawild is an optimistic book about creative thinking, science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and the potential for massive change. Filled with laugh-out-loud design-ridiculousness, it aims to empower and excite a new generation of designers, scientists, engineers and ultra-wild thinkers. '"Audacious" rather understates the scope of inventor Steve Mushin's drawn manifesto for hacking the firmware of Terra Ferma into a hard reset. This is less a graphic novel than a densely illustrated week-long TED Talk, catapulting ideas in all directions... Ultrawild appeals to a childlike imagination, but requires an adult attention span and f