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DESCRIPTION:The gleaming Biosphere 2 rises from Arizona's high desert like a bizarre 
 hybrid of spaceship and greenhouse. Featuring a lush miniature rainforest, 
 ocean, desert and farm, this extravagant eco-utopia under glass housed 
 eight die-hard human "biospherians" on a survival mission in the 1990s. 
 Rebecca Reider's book Dreaming the Biosphere, out this November from 
 University of New Mexico Press, tells this mini-world's story. And more 
 than that, it's a probing look at the American relationship to nature. 
 While unfolding the biospherians' saga of high-tech peasant farming, 
 near-starvation, and quest for total ecological sustainability, the book 
 grapples with American environmental history, exploring the perpetual dream 
 of creating a better world -- what in the human mind stands in the way, and 
 what signs still point to hope. The author's talk at the event will tell 
 the wild tale of Biosphere 2 and also focus on what lessons this miniature 
 biosphere holds for the future of our own world.\n\nBooklist calls Dreaming 
 the Biosphere "...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." \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/23/18626516.php
SUMMARY:Dreaming the Biosphere - book launch & talk/signing with the author
LOCATION:The Green Arcade bookstore, 1680 Market St., San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/23/18626516.php
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