Jane is one of only eight people to agree to live sealed in an artificial world for two whole years… and succeed. Her training for Biosphere 2 led her to ride the rugged and isolated Australian Outback on horseback, and sail across the Indian Ocean and Red Sea on a concrete research boat. Involved in the Biosphere from the start, she managed the design and operation of the farm where the crew grew its food. She authored "The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2," published by Thunder’s Mouth Press in 2006. Jane is now President and Chairwoman of Paragon Space Development Corporation, which develops technologies for extreme environments (like outer space and under water). While inside Biosphere 2, she co-founded the firm with fellow biospherian, Taber MacCallum, and several aerospace engineers. For three consecutive years, the firm has been named on Inc 500’s list of fastest growing companies, and in 2009 the National Association for Female Executives awarded Jane its Entrepreneur of the Year award. Jane has had experiments in her patented self-sustaining habitats flown on the International Space Station, the Russian Mir Space Station, and the U.S. Space Shuttle. The firm is now on the teams developing America’s new space suit and Orion spacecraft. Paragon is developing many life support and thermal control technologies for NASA and private spacecraft companies, and a dive suit for the U.S. Navy that allows divers to work in polluted waters. Jane also consults on, and writes about, sustainable development. She has worked with the World Bank on projects to mitigate global climate change and grow crops in drought-stricken Africa and Central America. She is President of Blue Marble Institute, a 501(c)(3) non profit dedicated to leadership in science, sustainability and exploration. She serves on the City of Tucson’s Climate Change Committee. Her second book, "Champions for Change: Athletes Making A World of Difference" launched in November 2009 at the United Nations in New York, and is now a successful middle school program. She has appeared on hundreds of television and radio shows, and has been interviewed for many magazine and newspaper articles about Biosphere 2 and her work in space and the environment. She has been an invited speaker at events hosted by groups such as the United Nations Environment Programme, the US Environmental Protection Agency, TEDx, NASA, MIT and Microsoft. She also hosted a children's educational program, which she filmed in zero gravity on a vomit comet. Titles Rules For Life: Lessons Learned From Isolation And At 160 Miles Per Hour Corralling The Group Animal (human behaviors in the workplace) The Smart Future (sustainability) The Human Experiment Starvation, Suffocation, And Madness (space talk, human exploration) We are Biosphere (sustainability, green talk) Leadership, Green, Sustainability, Future Technology, Space topics available Topics Environment/Green, Women, Science/Space Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $5,000 - $7,499 Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State AZ Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.