John Allen

Me and the Biospheres

A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Synergetic Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 203mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 956g
• ISBN-13: 9780907791379
• ISBN-10: 0907791379
• Artikelnr.: 35731291

Autorenporträt

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