Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2 by Allen, John

Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2

An uplifting account of the ambitious environmental experiment, Biosphere 2, and the extraordinary life of its creator,...
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Author: John Allen
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Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2 by Allen, John

Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2

€56,67

Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2

€56,67
Author: John Allen
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 Biospheres is 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 Allen's 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.



Author: John Allen
Publisher: Synergetic Press
Published: 01/15/2009
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780907791379


Award: Benjamin Franklin Award - Winner
Award: New Mexico Book Awards - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2009 pg. 57

About the Author
Allen, John: - "John 'Dolphin' Allen, author, poet, playwright, inventor, conceiver and co-founder of the Biosphere 2 project - the world's largest laboratory for global ecology. Biosphere 2 set a number of world records in closed life system work including, among others, degree of sealing tightness, 100% waste recycle and water recycle, and duration of human residence within a closed system (eight people for two years). Allen has also conceived and co-founded nine other projects around the world, pioneering in sustainable co-evolutionary development. Allen began the first manned Biosphere Test Module exper"

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