Ultrawild - An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth (Mushin Steve)(Pevná vazba)

WINNER: 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, Best Designed Children''s Non-Fiction bookWINNER: 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Elsie Locke Non-Fiction AwardSHORTLISTED: 2025 Spark! School Book Awards - Non-Fiction category (UK)SHORTLISTED: 2025 NSW Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children''s LiteratureJoin 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 w
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