Ultrawild: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth

Steve Mushin, a maverick inventor, has developed Ultrawild, a book that presents mind-bending, scientifically plausible inventions to rewild cities and save the planet. With designs for habitat-printing robot birds, water-filtering sewer submarines, and compost cannons that can blast seed bombs over a kilometre, Mushin shares his vision for super-high-tech urban rewilding. Ultrawild is an optimistic book about creative thinking, science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) and the potential for massive change. It aims to empower and excite a new generation of designers, scientists, engineers, and ultra-wild thinkers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 80 pages
Publication date: 31 October 2023
Publisher: Allen & Unwin

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 marvelously 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.

If this book does not fire your imagination, nothing will. Steve Mushin doesn t hold back when thinking about our green future; humanity needs all the ideas it can get to bring climate change under control, and this book is packed with them!

Professor James Renwick, climate scientist
"A brain-meltingly intricate and inspiring compendium of the gigantic ideas needed to repair the planet by rewilding every city on Earth. From compost-firing cannons to water-filtering sewer submarines, M.

Weight: 880g
Dimension: 282 x 337 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781760292812