613 - Mark Nelson (Biospherian)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
Mark Nelson is an American ecologist and author based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His research focuses on closed ecological system research, ecological engineering, restoration of damaged ecosystems, and wastewater recycling. Nelson was one of the eight original crew members of Biosphere 2 in 1991.
Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; “If I had a Million Dollars,” by Barenaked Ladies; Outro: “Smoke Alarm,” by Carsie Blanton.
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| 0:00.0 | Rade humano papachango. Oh, What's up, up, up, Welcome to another edition of Dan Gendley speaking with Chris Ryan. I'm your host. |
| 0:37.0 | There was a guy named Wolf Man Jack. He was a DJ back in the 70s I think and he talked like that. |
| 0:45.0 | Yes, Wolf Man Jack coming to you. |
| 0:48.0 | WKBA. |
| 0:50.0 | Anyway, it hurts my throat. Okay, today's episode, this is a good one. This is a really good one. |
| 0:59.0 | Guy's name is Mark Nelson. You may have never heard of him, but holy cow. He's an interesting guy. |
| 1:08.4 | So here's the story. A few years ago, back in COVID days, our friend Deborah Berger, episode 254, episode 529. 529. |
| 1:24.0 | Deborah is an alumni, an alumnus of the podcast. |
| 1:29.0 | She is Talruspili's mother. |
| 1:33.0 | He's been on the podcast a bunch of times. |
| 1:34.9 | You see how these ripples, that ripples out. |
| 1:37.7 | So we were at the Bombay Beach Biennale |
| 1:41.9 | and this art festival kind of thing that Tao and some friends of his started years |
| 1:48.8 | ago and anyway Deborah said well you guys are heading back to Colorado. |
| 1:54.4 | I'm heading to Santa Fe. |
| 1:56.0 | And you guys should really come down to Santa Fe |
| 1:58.4 | and meet my friends. |
| 2:01.9 | They live on a ranch down there called the Synergea Ranch and their theater people |
| 2:08.4 | and their scientists and their philosophers and their travelers. I think you'd really like them and I was like, yeah, they sound like awesome people. That sounds really interesting. |
| 2:19.0 | And I think maybe she mentioned the Biasosphere Project that they were involved with the Biosphere 2 project, which I had heard of. |
| 2:29.0 | I guess it was in the 90s when that actually happened in the early 90s. |
| 2:37.0 | Basically the idea was that people wanted to sort of investigate how it would be possible, |
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