Life Under Glass: Inside Story of Biosphere 2
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Review This project probably pioneered the transformation of ecology into an experimental science, while the crew has survived a unique social experiment: the longest voluntary tenure in a confined environment on record. -- USA TodayWe have to pay tribute to the imagination and determination and the vision of the people who have made this project a reality. -- Jane GoodallYour book depicting the day-to0day life is lively reading and should become a best seller. -- Eugene Odum Read more About the Author Dr. Mark Nelson was a founding director of the Institute of Ecotechnics and has worked for several decades in closed ecological system research, ecological engineering, the restoration of damaged ecosystems, desert agriculture and orchardry and wastewater recycling. He is Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Ecotechnics (www.ecotechnics.edu), a U.K. non-profit organization, which consults to several demonstration projects working in challenging biomes around the world.For the past 23 years, Ms. Alling has actively engaged in marine, environmental and closed system research and development projects. Presently, she is co-founder and CEO of Biosphere Foundation and its division, the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation (PCRF), a non-profit corporation dedicated to the study of Earth's coral reef ecosystems. PCRF maintains a research base in Akumal, Mexico and a research ship, the RV Heraclitus, which is now on its second mission to study coral reefs worldwide, a decade long, (2000 - 2010) "Planetary Coral Reefs and Cultures Expedition.” Read more Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. From foreword: I am also intrigued by this enormous experiment because, for the first time, it addresses the missing link of space colonies. By the missing link I mean the understanding of the closed sustainable ecologies needed for human habitation in space. All other technologies needed to live off Earth - rocket travel, for example- were proven during the golden years of the Space Age. But no understanding about closed ecologies was gained in those years because all space missions to date have relied on a rigid system of consumable stores: food, water, propellants, and so on carried according to a complicated flight plan and meted out piece by piece until they are exhausted about the time, one hopes, of Earth re-entry. (Joseph P. Allen, former astronaut Executive Vice-President of Space Industries International, August 1993, Houston, Texas) Read more
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A NASA experiment in the 80's that improved the knowledge and technology of creating a world where humans can live and work and grow food on a space station. Most people have never heard of the BIOSPHERE PROJECT. Scientists who created a Biosphere separate from this one. Written by dear friends who built it and lived in it. An awesome look into the technology and the people who lived it. some of them now live on a 125 foot ship researching the health of our coral reefs around the world, exploration and training young marine biologists.
