Me and the Biospheres : A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2 EPUB
by John Allen
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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.
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- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Synergetic Press
- Publication Date:02/01/2018
- ISBN:9780907791430
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Synergetic Press
- Publication Date:02/01/2018
- ISBN:9780907791430