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

John Allen

Winner:New Mexico Book Awards -Biography (2009)
Winner:Benjamin Franklin Award -Autobiography/Memoir (2010)

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Synergetic Press
  • Publish Date: Jan 15th, 2009
  • Pages: 336
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.90in - 7.90in - 0.70in - 2.10lb
  • EAN: 9780907791379
  • Categories: Environmentalists & NaturalistsLife Sciences - EcologyEnvironmental - General

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"

Praise for this book

"The Biosphere 2 project was surely one of the great scientific and technological enterprises of our time. Building a working model of the Earth's biosphere is essential preparation for the coming era of space travel and manned exploration of other worlds" Ralph Metzner, Ph. D., Author of The Unfold