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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] CNN.com - Biosphere 2 up for sale - Jan 10, 2005
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:44:24 -0800

- Would be nice if B2 could be donated to the Permaculture Institute on
behalf of the
greater Permaculture world community.
__

<http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/01/10/biosphere.sale.ap/index.html>
Science & Space
Biosphere 2 up for sale
Monday, January 10, 2005 Posted: 8:18 AM EST (1318 GMT)
TUCSON, Arizona (AP) -- The company that owns Biosphere 2 Center, 3.1
glass-enclosed
acres designed to simulate the Earth's environment, has put the site up for
sale.
The company is also selling 70 other buildings on the center's 140-acre
campus 16
miles north of Tucson, said Christopher Bannon, general manager of Decisions
Investment Corp. of Fort Worth, Texas. "We'd love to see the Biosphere 2 used
as a research activity, but we know that may not be the end result," he said
last week.
Texas billionaire Ed Bass, president of Decisions Investment, spent more than
$200 million
to build Biosphere 2 in the 1980s as a prototype for a space colony.
The closed ecological site 16 miles north of Tucson contained miniatures of
Earth's
rainforest, ocean, desert and other environmental features.



  • [permaculture] CNN.com - Biosphere 2 up for sale - Jan 10, 2005, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 01/10/2005

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