Biospheres: Reproducing Planet Earth

Dorion Sagan 1990's Paperback Biospheres: reproducing Planet Earth (McGraw-Hill Publishing, ISBN 0-553-28883-0) over the planet's life support system provides a unique view. Also notable feature of life on Earth as humanity challenged the traditional approach.

Maybe this is an astronomer Carl Sagan and biologist Lynn least Margulis, whose unorthodox view of evolutionary biology to produce new forms of life to see the offspring of the merger is to be expected. Sagan young well-developed culture, the author of the books, and is known as the philosophy of science.

Biosphere 2 to Ecospheres

One of the more interesting features of the book are still current institutions that are unexpectedly stable economic and technological landscape features to mention.

For example, Tucson Ecospheres Associates in Arizona, manufactures and sells sealed glass of water a symbiotic community that supports life, the theory shows off green algae, other microscopic biota, and filled with balls containing tiny shrimp. Sagan is an example of what it calls "recycling systems permanently." Called EcoSpheres, they come in a variety of sizes, 9 inches to 4 inches in diameter, are priced like small kitchen appliances, and "replacement" period is one year. With care, for many years they can last. EcoSpheres off a NASA, the first product to spin off U.S. ecosystems space experiments to humans in residence at the end, create.

"Bioshelters", individuals, families and small groups mundane biospheres, gone but not forgotten New Alchemy Institute (1969-1991) was a product of. Apollo 11 and 2 between the biosphere, New Alchemy many bioshelters the Cape Cod, Massachusetts Prince Edward Island (Eastern Quebec) the "arks", and called on other places made. Hatchville the Green Center, MA New Alchemy preserves heritage information.

Sea arcs International, founded by the same people who brought you bioshelters, self-made ships oceangoing Biospheres mentioned. Little sea colonies as anything on Earth's oceans, including reliance on fossil fuels nonrenewable, no, his idea of ​​sailing, after a waste water processing method that space colonies can be qualified as a technology has mutated into.

Biosphere 2, 35 miles north of Tucson, Biospheres book was nearing completion, just as was taking shape. Site in southern Arizona is the most famous technological wonder. Santa Catalina Mountains Highway 77 between Red Rocks and the sight is out of the ordinary built environment, based, it is said that one of them fixed under Ruby Arizona sunsets all summer visual cues, the evening of Tue planet inhabitants. Library of human habitation a small ocean, rain forest, desert, Savannah, and across moorland, tower, Biosphere 2's 3.14 acres of land is under glass. The 2007 a research and educational outreach project of the University of Arizona under ten years since the station is operated as, Philecology Foundation grant of $ 30 million.

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