Me and the Biospheres (eBook)

A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2

John Allen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
336 Seiten
Synergetic Press (Verlag)
978-0-907791-43-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Anyone suffering from the global warming blues will cherish this uplifting account of the most ambitious environmental experiments of our time: Biosphere 2, a miniature Earth under glass and the world's largest laboratory for global ecology ever built. John Allen's memoir, Me and the Biospheres, chronicles the singular life of poet, playwright, activist, world-traveler - and inventor of Biosphere 2.

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An uplifting account of the ambitious environmental experiment, Biosphere 2, and the extraordinary life of its creator, John Allen.The 2009 Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Biography/Memoir,Me and the Biospheresis the definitive autobiography of John P. Allen, inventor of the largest laboratory for global ecology ever built and one of the most luminous minds of our time.Contained within a magnificently designed air-tight glass and steel frame structure, Biosphere 2 covered three acres of Arizona desert and included models of seven biomes: an ocean with coral reef, a marsh, a rainforest, a savannah, a desert, farming areas and a micro-city. Eight people lived inside this structure for two years (1991-1993) and set world records in human life support, monitoring their impact on the environment, while providing crucial data for future manned missions into outer space. Anyone concerned with the current world trajectory will identify with Allens uplifting account of the most ambitious environmental experiment ever undertaken.Humorous and Whitmanesque,Me and the Biospheres is a tribute to the ingenuity and dauntlessness of the human mind and a passionate call to reawaken to the beauty of our peerless home, Biosphere 1, the Earth.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.1.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Bios 3 • biosphere • Biosphere 2 • Caravan of Dreams • Deborah Parrish Snyder • Ecotechnics • Ed Bass • Ethnosphere • eugene odum • Heraclitus • Howard Odum • Institute of Biophysics • Institute of Ecotechnics • John Allen • John Corliss • Margaret Augustine • October Gallery • Planet Earth Conference • Project Tibet • Roy Walford • SARBID • Space Biospheres Ventures • Synergetic Architecture and Biospheric Design Inc. • Synergia Ranch • Theater of All Possibilities • Vajra Hotel
• ISBN-10: 0-907791-43-3 / 0907791433
• ISBN-13: 978-0-907791-43-0 / 9780907791430