Biosphere nostalgia
Gakked from Wylie Cox on Facebook:
Dreaming the Biosphere: The Theater of All Possibilities by Rebecca Reider.
Biosphere 2" rises from southern Arizonas 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.
I think Rebecca was researching for the book in the Fall of 2001, I remember her visiting us that semester and thinking, "Dude, wouldn't it be awesome if there was a book about the cultlike-predilictions of Johnny Dolphin and his followers?"
Ahh, nostalgia. Fare thee well, my space hippies. May you live long and have much group sex. As for me, I still weep for the Sonoran desert, disappearing beneath the golf courses.
Dreaming the Biosphere: The Theater of All Possibilities by Rebecca Reider.
Biosphere 2" rises from southern Arizonas 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.
I think Rebecca was researching for the book in the Fall of 2001, I remember her visiting us that semester and thinking, "Dude, wouldn't it be awesome if there was a book about the cultlike-predilictions of Johnny Dolphin and his followers?"
Ahh, nostalgia. Fare thee well, my space hippies. May you live long and have much group sex. As for me, I still weep for the Sonoran desert, disappearing beneath the golf courses.