About
Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments.
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- TEDxUSC
- Speaker
- Jane Poynter
- Year
- 2009
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Biology, Earth and environment, Astronomy and space
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
- Who can watch
- TED gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed
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