ULTRAWILD is my new illustrated book about tackling climate change with outrageous engineering ideas and extreme rewilding. Published by Allen & Unwin, November 2023. Please click here to visit the ULTRAWILD book website.
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Developed over seven years, Ultrawild is an optimistic book about creative thinking, science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and the potential for massive change. Ultrawild explores visions for rapidly transforming and rewilding cities to reverse climate change and species extinction. It presents both imaginative and real world technologies for renewable energy and rewilding.
Filled with laugh-out-loud design-ridiculousness, it aims to empower and excite a new generation of designers, scientists, engineers and ultra-wild thinkers.
Ultrawild has won Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction book (2024 Australian Book Design Awards), and the 2024 Elsie Locke Award For Best Nonfiction (NZ).
Ultrawild is published into German by Rotfuchs (German translation, 2024), and will be released as US, French and Chinese translations/versions in 2025.
'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, Mushin’s bonkers, brilliant, boundary-breaking inventions give permission to eager 9+ conservationists to push their imaginations to the limit, rather than yield to despair.'
The Guardian
