Underland by Robert Macfarlane
In this first ever guest post for Heliocene, New Zealand writer Frances Palmer presents a deeply inquisitive review of Underland by Robert Macfarlane. Reaching into its text and its subtexts, she compels us not only to read the book but, more importantly, to understand why it has been written. Macfarlane, himself, writes that his book was “composed in anticipation of a future reader gazing back at the cultures of the Anthropocene”, with writing that he hopes “might actively ‘unconceal’ the…
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Transition Engineering by Susan Krumdieck
Engineering has a new track. Professor Susan Krumdieck’s book ‘Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable Future’ describes the methodology she has honed over the last twenty years to downshift legacy systems to meet the energy decline of the 21st century – developing a new field of engineering in the process. The IPCC WGII and WGIII reports of 2022 have been an intricate dissection of the climate change adaptation and mitigation challenges we face this century; this decade, in particular. Reactions have…
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