Biosphere 2
“Biosphere 2 ushers forth technological development that is marketable and beneficial to the earth. It responds to the current environmental crisis by searching for real solutions and stands as a vision of hope that we as a species can move forward and leave our destructive ways behind us”
-Margret Augustine
Architect& Co-Founder of Biosphere 2
Becoming a "Biospherian"
“Every person on the planet has the potential to become a biospherian; a person who lives in harmony with the Earth.” – Mark Nelson, Biospherian and Co-Founder.
Contained within a magnificently designed air-tight glass structure, Biosphere 2 covered three acres of Arizona. It included models of seven biomes: an ocean with coral reef, a marsh, a rainforest, a savannah, a desert, and farming areas.
Eight people were enclosed inside this structure for two years (1991-1993) and set multiple world records in ultimately contributing to harmonizing with ecology and mimicking life in outer space. The crew produced approximately 80 percent of its food, setting another world record for food production in a closed system. The other 20% was sourced from crops grown and stored in Biosphere 2 prior to the closed experiment.