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

Allen, John

ISBN 10: 0907791379 / ISBN 13: 9780907791379

Published by Synergetic Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2009

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First Edition, First Printing. Soft cover 4to in photo wraps. Fine and unmarked. 308pp inc. Index; illustrated in photos. 336 p.

Seller Inventory # 044380

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2
• Publisher: Synergetic Press, Santa Fe, NM
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0907791379
• ISBN 13: 9780907791379
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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