The Shed

TRANSITION ENGINEERING BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

r Susan Krumdieck is a professor of engineering at the University of Canterbury. She has spent a working lifetime contemplating energy, resources, and social constructs from an engineering is aimed at her students, but is digestible by anyone with an engineering bent. It is the cleanest expression of the problems facing humanity, from a practical perspective, that I have ever read.

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