Living in Biosphere 2

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Shane finds out what life is like living in a Biosphere for 2 years. In this episode, he talks with Dr. Mark Nelson, who is a founding director of the Institute of Ecotechnics. Mark has also worked for several decades in closed ecological system research, ecological engineering, the restoration of damaged ecosystems, desert agriculture and orchardry and wastewater recycling. He is Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Ecotechnics (www.ecotechnics.edu), a U.K. and U.S. non-profit organization, which consults to several demonstration projects working in challenging biomes around the world; Vice Chairman of Global Ecotechnics Corp. (www.globalecotechnics.com), head of Wastewater Gardens International (www.wastewatergardens.com). Did the Biosphere give birth to "Big Brother" and what kind of animals were permitted to live inside with the Biospherians. Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple! https://www.quarantinecouple.net Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And! there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with our other partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/he... All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sky Pines Avenue.
0:02.0	Welcome to the show everybody.
0:05.0	How awesome is my life that I get to talk to these people like our guest today who is in Biosphere 2. Dude lived in a dome for over two years.
0:17.0	I got to talk to him.
0:19.0	Amazing and such a relevant conversation for today.
0:22.0	This is one of the silver linings of the And such a relevant conversation for today.
0:22.8	This is one of the silver linings of the pandemic.
0:27.1	Not only do you get fun Instagram videos like Mr. Silver linings for me three episodes out so far three more being
0:36.7	delivered real soon but I'm able to get guests in a really timely fashion of like exactly what I want to be talking about and things that are really timely and relevant people that are just releasing books and it's been a lot of fun because I've
0:57.2	been able to what I'm what I'm having to compromise with an audio quality which
1:02.2	we've been putting more time into post-production
1:04.6	So hopefully it balances out a little bit but it's allowed for me being able to
1:10.8	Get all these great guests and do more episodes as well. So pros and cons with
1:15.8	everything I guess bummer that I won't be doing an update you know in terms of
1:21.4	live touring I don't think that I'll be live touring this year
1:24.0	I don't think that stand-up comedy will be coming back until next year it's a
1:29.5	very unfortunate one thing that I'm trying to do is, you know, I was really excited to be doing my head talks tour
1:37.0	in May, my favorite tour that I've put together, so doing a virtual version of it.
1:41.9	It's not quite the same, but it's also better in some ways as well.
1:45.0	It's a more free-flowing conversation and you guys get to be involved on Crowdcast.
1:50.0	I go on and there's a whole column on the side where you can weigh in on the discussion
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