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

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.

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

Product details

• Authors: John Allen
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 16 to 90
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2009
• EAN: 9780907791379
• ISBN: 978-0-907791-37-9
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 1 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Architecture, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Ecology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, Architectural structure & design, Memoirs, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, SCIENCE / Biotechnology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biophysics, HOUSE & HOME / Sustainable Living, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, SCIENCE / Space Science, SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects, Applied ecology, environmental science, engineering & technology, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Space Science, Science / Environmental Science, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Inventions & inventors, Earth Sciences, Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning