Keywords:
Allen, John-(John Polk).
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Biosphere.
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Biosphere 2 (Project).
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780907791430
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=6855919
DDC:
577.092 B
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I - A Caravan of Dreams -- The Music of the Spheres -- Synergia Ranch, Santa Fe -- Theater of All possibilities -- Legends of the Heraclitus -- East Meets West: the Vajra Hotel -- West Meets East: Art and Ecotechnics -- Ventures in Timber and Jazz -- Part II - Building Biosphere 2 -- Space Biospheres Ventures -- Biospherics -- The Biomes -- Engineering -- The interacting Subsystems -- Part III - Launching Biosphere 2 -- The Biospherians -- Rembrandt and Mona Lisa -- Pallenville -- Part IV - A Think of Beauty is a Joy Forever -- Mission One reveals a New World -- Murphy's Law and Finagle's Factor -- Mission One Victory -- Cherry Blossom Time -- My Dream -- Epilogue: A Sweet Blue Grape Under a Yellow Sun in a Green Garden -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Credits & -- Footnotes -- Bibliography.
