The nitrogen cycle. Air and water currents. Margulis' five kingdoms. But it isn't a lipid membrane. It is the fluid mosaic model for the membrane in which lipids are one part.
Life is life.
The Moon was closer to Earth. But, the onset of life is difficult to reconstruct. He claims the first organisms were prokaryotic ancestors of both bacteria and archaea. But this is beyond the origin of life. Released oxygen would react quickly with other chemicals reducing its concentration.