In a world facing the dystopian challenges of climate change, beaver ethologist Beavan Broderick is doing everything he can to protect the future, one pond at a time. When he meets an eccentric family secretly working on a miraculously strong, silky substance they join forces. Together they develop a materials technology that returns the dirigible to our skies and elevates the housing market literally, into the air, buoyed by aerostats.

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This motley group of academics, scientists, and artists unexpectedly find themselves members of a team tasked with a twenty-first-century solution to an existential threat we all face. This solution is critically dependent on Canada’s national animal: the beaver!