What If We Lived in a Closed Biosphere? - with Jane Poynter

In 1991, 8 people walked into the first ever biosphere project, committed to live there, grow their own food, recycle their waste and sustain themselves on limited amounts of oxygen for 2 years. So who better to ask "What If we lived in a closed biosphere than Jane Poynter, one of the designers and participants of the historic endeavour. What was it like? How did people co-exist? Would this be feasible for larger communities? Join Peter, Richard and author, speaker, aerospace executive and former biospherian Jane Poynter, as they discuss what we learned from that biosphere project and how this could serve our future co-existence here on Earth and beyond. Show notes: Join hosts Peter Schmiedchen and Richard Garner with some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of your most popular What If videos.

You can listen to What If We Lived in a Closed Biosphere? - with Jane Poynter online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

What If We Lived in a Closed Biosphere? - with Jane Poynter is an episode from What If, discussed. by Raphael F.

This episode is 00:39:01 long.

This episode was published on Nov 27, 2020.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from What If, discussed. when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.