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'Biosphere 2' rises from southern Arizona's high desert like a bizarre hybrid spaceship and greenhouse. Packed with more than 3,800 carefully selected plant, animal, and insect species, this mega-terrarium is one of the world's most biodiverse, lush, and artificial wildernesses. Only recently transformed from an abandoned ghost dome to a University of Arizona research center, the site was the setting of a grand drama about humans and ecology at the end of the twentieth century. The seeds of Biosphere 2 sprouted in the 1970s at Synergia, a desert ranch in New Mexico where John Allen and a handful of dreamers united to create a self-reliant utopia centered on ecological work, study, and their traveling experimental theater troupe, 'The Theater of All Possibilities'. At a time of growing tensions in the American environmental consciousness, the Synergians took on varied projects around the world that sought to mend the rift between humans and nature. In 1984, they bought a piece of desert to build Biosphere 2. Eco-enthusiasts competed to become the eight 'biospherians' who would lock themselves inside the giant greenhouse world for two years to live in harmony with their wilderness, grow their own food, and recycle all their air, water, and wastes. Thin and short on oxygen, the biospherians stoically completed their survival mission, but the communal spirit surrounding Biosphere 2 eventually dissolved into conflict - ultimately the facility would be seized by armed U.S. Marshals. Yet for all the story's strangeness, perhaps strangest of all was how normal Biosphere 2 actually was. The story of this grand eco-utopian adventure (and misadventure) becomes a parable about the relationship between humans and nature in postmodern America.
- Sales Rank: #668938 in Books
- Brand: Brand: University of New Mexico Press
- Published on: 2009-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.20" h x 6.40" w x 9.20" l, 1.55 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 310 pages
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*Starred Review* Heralded as a grand scientific experiment in the early 1990s, Biosphere 2 fell out of favor and was relegated to pseudoscience at best and man’s folly at worst. Reider’s impeccably researched analysis of the project and the people intimately involved in it begins decades before with a group of disaffected intellectuals and artists who sought to change the world and “mend the rift between humans and nature.” The wandering troupe in the “Theater of All Possibilities” managed to develop serious agricultural projects around the world while performing plays as an integral part of their business plan. Thanks to the wealth of one member, they were able to harness their vision and gain the support of the scientific community in constructing a self-contained biosphere to mimic life on earth and collect data for future planetary colonization. Reider sees Biosphere 2’s complicated success and failure as far more than a clash of science and myth or data and personality. She writes a fable of epic dreams burdened by superegos and drama that could not be contained. Riveting, surprising, and in the end devastatingly human, this is a saga for the ages. --Colleen Mondor
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. . . impeccably researched . . . Reider sees Biosphere 2's complicated success and failure as far more than a clash of science and myth or data and personality. She writes a fable of epic dreams burdened by superegos and drama that could not be contained. Riveting, surprising, and in the end devastatingly human, this is a saga for the ages. --Booklist, starred review
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Reider tells the tangled tale of the creation, and eventual disintegration, of the experimental eco-utopia known as Biosphere 2.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Tells of the biospherian visionaries, which the current staff of Biosphere II actively discredits..
By Patrick Moore LMT Educator
..I went to Biosphere II a few weeks ago. My wife had been on the tour and she found it creepy but couldn't say why. My stepson and I really liked it. The guided tour was great, I found nothing lacking and I plan to go back. Later that day I put a few Biosphere II books on hold at the library and Dreaming the Biosphere was the first one that came available. I was surprised and engaged by the book immediately. Surprised, since it presented a totally different perspecive of Biosphere II than I was given on the tour. The guided tour said nothing about ideas for communal living, the potential to develop plants to take on long space journies or to plant on other planets that we terraform, the architectue of Frank Lloyd Wright, or any of the other original visions that created the place. The guided tour talks instead about low-water irrigation, how evaporation can be measured by springs that weigh the whole place, water conservation, rock weathering, and other studies of earth sciences. The guided tour emphasized that the purpose of biosphere II is "to help scientists understand and improve how we live on earth now." This phrase was said distinctly, several times on the tour. Perhaps they feel their funding would be at risk to mention the outer space or other hippie stuff. Now that I am thinking about it, I recall as the tour went through the living quarters, the guide pointed at a video of the biospherians being interviewed, and the guide made a silent gesture of someone drinking, implying that there was a lot of drinking going on in there. Why go to the trouble to discredit or shame the biospherians? It must be to distance the current ownership from those hippie ideals.
The author mentions that when she was in grad school she wanted to write her thesis studying the original biospherians. This thesis proposal was denied, not only by her advisor but administrators higher in the school made certain she would not be allowed to write about that. The denial of her thesis did not stop her, but only inspired her (like a good nonconformist) to go the very next summer to find the biospherians now and interview them in depth.
The book is fascinating. The library copy only made me need my own copy, and put it on wish lists to give as gifts. We learn about avant-garde theater, haight ashbury, dropping out of corportate climbing, living on the commune, digging into philosophers like Gurdjieff, Meetings with Remarkable Men , group-psychologists like BionExperiences in Groups: and Other Papers, you dig?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
the best book on Biosphere2
By Terrell Miller
this is by far the most objective and thorough book on the Biosphere2 project. If you only read one book on the subject, or if you're wondering which one to delve into first, this is the one.
Reider is not only a journalist, but has degrees in environmental science and was a student in Columbia's program back when they were running the facility. She goes to great lengths to view the overall Synergia experience, and she shows all the different sides of the issues.
In my other reviews of the Poynter and Alling books on Biosphere2 I raised several questions that "Dreaming" covers. The oxygen problem was a result of too much organic matter (cow poop) in the soil inside the facility, coupled with cement that wasn't completely cured before the first mission began. So why did they put so much organics into the soil, far more than actually needed for the two-year mission? According to Reider, it was simply because the builders intended the facility to be used for a century or more, so they wanted to provide enough carbon at the beginning to sustain plant growth for the entire lifespan of the facility. So there was some method behind their madness, but they never considered the side effects of all that organic material (namely, that it would generate carbon dioxide and methane faster than the plants inside could absorb it and emit breathable oxygen, and that the cement would bond with the atmospheric CO2 and thus permanently remove oxygen from the air).
Another question I asked was why the Synergia management didn't seem to have learned anything from the Russians' and NASA's experience with space stations and Antarctic research posts. It seems like they would have had plenty of advanced warning of crew personality clashes. Well, according to Reider's interviews with the Synergia managers and the Bioshperians themselves, they did have plenty of warning. John Allen, the mastermind behind the whole "Ecotechnics" umbrella organization, warned the crew before closure that they were likely to split into factions during the mission. So everybody knew what was likely to happen, but were powerless to prevent it. And apparently nobody even today quite understands why or even how all the power struggles and hostility happened.
A third question I raised in my other reviews was why the designers tried to cram so many different ecosystems into a roughly two-acre wilderness area. Reider shows why this was so important to the Synergists and was a core of their overarching philosophy. They were trying to encompass the breadth of Earth's biodiversity (or as much of it as possible given the space and money constraints), basically trying to show that by careful husbandry mankind could not only sustain but improve the entire ecosystem of this planet.
Reider also goes into a lot more detail not only about the major topics covered by Poynter and Alling, but also a lot of other issues the crew had to deal with not even mentioned in the other two books. And she gives a brief account of the second mission, which ended abruptly after only six months once Allen and his staff were locked out of the premises by Ed Bass's money men. She also brings up the delicious irony of a group of fanatic ecologists building a huge greenhouse that required the electrical generation capacity of a medium-sized city, just to support eight people and three acres of plants. Apparently none of the Synergists have ever noticed this.
So well done, Ms. Reider! She's done a remarkable job covering a topic that's clearly very dear to her, and she's done all us armchair Biospherians a great service in bringing the entire project to life.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Fascinating!
By Real World Reader
I remember this project, and thought it sounded really interesting at the time. It's fascinating to read about the history and evolution of the project, and about the people behind it (who are not at all what I thought at the time). I think the author does a fantastic job putting the project into the multiple contexts (historical, environmental, scientific, social) of the time. She explores the personalities involved with sensitivity and clarity, without making any one person or group into a villain.
Even though I'm about 3/4 of the way through, I'm giving it 5 stars. I also bought some of the other books written by the participants.
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