John Allen, the visionary founder of the Biosphere2 project, expresses his dreams to the Earth on OneHome.

« I have always been inspired by the view of the Earth from space, our spaceshipEarth, to imagine Biosphere 2 and all our other projects. Inhabiting this planet as we all were astronauts taking care of our common life-support-system could change the future. This was one of the main goals of Biosphere 2. I am extremely glad to participate to the OneHome project with our friend Jean-Pierre and his great team. » said John Allen, inventor of Biosphere 2, the world’s first and by far largest laboratory to study global ecology.

“It is the highest honor for OneHome to host JohnAllen. When I was thirteen years old in 1987, I heard about Biosphere 2 for the first time. I fell in love right away with this vision combining planetary stewardship and science to understand the complex relationship between man and biosphere, with the view to improve our life on Earth and prepare further exploration of the cosmos. This project inspired all my life and subsequent choices.I met John Allen and the Biosphere 2 family in 2009 and it was an immediate friendship. We are extremely proud with this cooperation and that the vision of John Allen could nurture OneHome. His magical text is a legacy for us and an inspiration for all humans.” said Jean-Pierre Goux, President and founder of OneHome.

About John Allen

John Allen, inventor and investor, conceived and co-founded in Arizona Biosphere 2 – the world’s first and by far largest laboratory to study global ecology. Biosphere 2 - from 1991 to 1993 - set world records in closed life system work: sealing tightness, 100% waste recycling, and duration of human residence within a closed system (eight people for two years). 

To build know-hows required for Biosphere 2 Allen first conceived, invented, co-founded, and managed the start-up of nine other multi-vector projects, from tropical forests to savannahs to desert to ocean to world city, around the planet, based on sustainable biomes (biomes: level of organized complexity of life systems below biosphere). 

He currently serves as Chairman of Global Ecotechnics Corporation, which he co-founded, owns and operates innovative sustainable ecological projects of which he was chief designer: restoration of a farm inProvence, a 5000 acre savannah regeneration project in Australia, a 1000 acre sustainable rainforest timber project in Puerto Rico, a London arts, theater, and seminars building in Bloomsbury (www.ecotechnics.edu). 

John also, together with colleagues, designed and built a research vessel, the R/V Heraclitus (www.rvheralitus.org), to sail and study the world’s oceans. Built in1975, the ship has sailed over 250,000 nautical miles, including up the Amazon and into the Rio Napo, and to Antarctica. See www.rvheralitus.org for more information. 

John Allen graduated in Metallurgical-Mining Engineering with honors from Colorado School of Mines, and he holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.Allen has over two dozen publications to his credit, half scientific, the remainder in poetry, drama, essays, short stories, two novels and documentaries. He is the main character of the « SpaceshipEarth » documentary on Biosphere 2, released on April 22, 2020 for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day (see www.spaceshipearthmovie.com).