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Pushing Our Limits is a fresh examination of Biosphere 2, the world's first man-made mini-world, twenty-five years after its first closure experiment. Author Mark Nelson, one of the eight crew members locked in the enclosure during the 1991-1993 experiment, offers a compelling insider's view of the dramatic story behind Biosphere 2.

Biosphere 2 helped change public understanding of what our global biosphere is and how it provides for our health and well-being. However, the experiment is often dismissed as a failure, and news outlets at the time focused on interpersonal conflicts and unexpected problems that arose. Delving past the sensationalism, Nelson presents the goals and results of the experiment, addresses the implications of the project for our global situation, and discusses how the project's challenges and successes can change our thinking about Biosphere 1: the Earth.

Pushing Our Limits offers insights from the project that can help us deal with our global ecological challenges. It also shows the intense and fulfilling connection the biospherians felt with their life support system and how this led to their vigilant attention to its needs.

With current concerns of sustainability and protection of our global biosphere, as well as the challenge of learning how to support life in space and on Mars, the largest, longest, and most important experiment in closed ecosystems is more relevant than ever. The book explores Biosphere 2's lessons for changing technology to support and not destroy nature and for reconnecting people to a healthy relationship with nature.

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  • Title Pushing Our Limits: Insights from Biosphere 2
  • Author Mark Nelson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Arizona Press
  • Publication date 2018-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780816537327 / 0816537321
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Biosphere 2 (Project), Ecology - Research
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2017042851
  • Dewey Decimal Code 577.072

About the author

Dr. Mark Nelson was a member of the eight-person "biospherian" crew for the first two-year closure experiment. He is a founding director and the chairman of the Institute of Ecotechnics and has worked for decades in closed ecological system research, ecological engineering, the restoration of damaged ecosystems, desert agriculture and orchardry, and wastewater recycling. He is the author of The Wastewater Gardener: Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time and co-author of Space Biospheres and Life Under Glass: The Inside Story of Biosphere 2.

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