{"product_id":"ultrawild","title":"Ultrawild","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER: 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, Best Designed Children''s Non-Fiction book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER: 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED: 2025 Spark! School Book Awards - Non-Fiction category (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED: 2025 NSW Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children''s Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoin 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJump 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeveloped over seven years, \u003ci\u003eUltrawild\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''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!''\u003c\/b\u003e Professor James Renwick, climate scientist   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''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\u003c\/b\u003e.'' \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The most astonishing children''s book I have read in ages. I am astonished by the wildness of ideas, the creative energy, the exuberant movement of thought, the feet in science and the YES in imagining. Enter the wilds of \u003ci\u003eUltrawild\u003c\/i\u003e and you will see the world afresh because this book is a clear response to climate change, the loss of habitats, outdated power sources, a need to care for forest ecosystems, over-roading, resource depleting. It is like imagination gets political and the political gets imaginative.'' \u003c\/b\u003ePaula Green, Poetry Box NZ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''This visionary, intricate, outrageous road map for integrated thinking is mind blowing. It''s funny, it''s a melding of engineering, hi-tech, botany, zoology and pure creative thinking. Required reading for everyone, most especially political leaders and those feeling like we''ve run out of ideas: this book proves we really haven''t.'' \u003c\/b\u003eClaire Mabey, \u003ci\u003eThe Spin Off\u003c\/i\u003e, Aotearoa Books of the Year, 2023 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The ideas, conversations and inventions in \u003ci\u003eUltrawild \u003c\/i\u003ebelong in every school, home, waiting room, library, community house, bedroom, car and loo. The perfect gift for curious kids. Don''t walk - RUN to grab your copy!''\u003c\/b\u003e Kids'' Book Review \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A visually impressive, large-format work of genius.'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sapling \u003c\/i\u003e(NZ)","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57393986175358,"sku":"NW9781760292812","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781760292812.jpg?v=1778614713","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/ultrawild","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}