I have this idea to build some large glass chambers to aid in direct experience of human interdependence with plants and other life forms. One large glass jar has only a human. When this is sealed off…and no more oxygen…human dies. Other jar has humans and plants. This jar has greater or more open-ended capacity for “sustained life”. It can “run” or stay alive much much longer. Many more details and design issues…but…
I am adding pieces and details to these ideas and plans slowly. First…two cool links that are closely related.
This one I found from a google search on words: interdependence chamber. It is quite the elaborate and technical experiment…short video describing it…but lots of overlap with my idea and plan (silly ads first):
http://www.5min.com/Video/The-Interdependence-of-Man-and-Plant-in-Space-Training-311434238
This one is an educational lesson plan for how to make a system to enable a very long term space mission. Again…very similar set of issues about “life” in its ecosystemic form…and again…necessary interdependence of humans and other functional types of organisms.
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.php?DocID=295
