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Throughout our fifty year legacy, we have filmed and documented our journeys. Visit our recordings either made by us or about us. This includes “Spaceship Earth” a documentary directed by Matt Wolf and premiered on Hulu. It won 2020 Nominee Critics’ Choice Documentary Award. Best Archival Documentary, 2020 Nominee Critics’ Choice Documentary Award, & Best Science/Nature Documentary.

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Wastewater Gardens and Ecotechnic Approaches

Soil-based biofiltration for air purification: potentials for environmental and space life support application. Click to View PDF

Plants + soil/wetland microbes: Food crop systems that also clean air and water. Click to View PDF

Worldwide Applications of Wastewater Gardens and Ecoscaping: Decentralised Systems which Transform Sewage from Problem to Productive, Sustainable Resource. Click to View PDF

Value-adding through creation of high diversity gardens and ecoscapes in subsurface flow constructed wetlands. Click to View PDF

Bioregenerative recycle of wastewater in Biosphere 2 using a created wetland: two year results. Click to View PDF

Living off the land: resource efficiency of wetland wastewater treatment. Click to View PDF

Biosphere 2 Agriculture: Testbed for intensive, sustainable, non-polluting farming systems. Click to View PDF

Wetland systems for bioregenerative reclamation of wastewater — from closed systems to developing countries. Click to View PDF

Biomic Projects

Enriched secondary subtropical forest through line-planting for sustainable timber production in Puerto Rico. Click to View PDF

The Impact of Hardwood Line-Planting on Tree and Amphibian Biodiversity in a Secondary Wet Tropical Forest. Click to View PDF

Effective Approaches for Environmental & Wastewater Management and Training – The Birdwood Downs Case Studies in the Kimberley Region Of West Australia,. Click to View PDF

Closed Ecological System Research

Water Cycle in Closed Ecological Systems: Perspectives from the Biosphere 2 and Laboratory Biosphere System. Click to View PDF

Earth applications of closed ecological systems: relevance to the development of sustainability in our global biosphere, Click to View PDF

Tightly closed ecological systems reveal atmospheric subtleties – experience from Biosphere 2. Click to View PDF

Biospherics Papers

Bioengineering of Closed Ecological Systems for Ecological Research, Space Life Support and the Science of Biospherics. Click to View PDF

Closure as a Scientific Concept and its Application to Ecosystem Ecology and the Science of the Biosphere

The legacy of Biosphere 2 for the study of biospherics and closed ecological systems,

Scales of ecological engineering. Click to View PDF

Ethnospherics

Origins of human cultures, their subjugation by the technosphere, the beginning of an ethnosphere, and steps needed to complete the ethnosphere. Click to View PDF

The Evolution of Humanity: Past, Present, and Possible Future, a review of humanity’s taxonomic classification and proposal to classify humanity as a sixth kingdom. Click to view PDF

Institute of Ecotechnics, in The Environmentalist. Click to view PDF

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