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This essay examines what kinds of insights about risk we can gain from the Bioshere2 experiment, in which eight people lived on a man-made earth for two years. Taking Bioshere2 as an integrated risk assessment, we carefully follow, reconstruct and situate various outcomes, and mental changes people went through, in this twoyear period of research and real life experience ‘under glass’. Using Beck’s consideration of risk society, we distinguish four insights the biospherians acquired, and suggest that these insights should be reflected in risk management for our real earth, Bioshere1.