events
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1961 Rome conference where Bliss presented his Arizona nocturnal radiation cooling demonstration; its proceedings appear in the Solar Fool print collection.
Washington DC meeting where Alcoa and Texas Instruments sat at the table while Harry Thomason was kept in the audience — evidence for Baer's argument about industry capture of gove…
Spring 1969 gathering organized by Barry Hickman with Steve and Holly Baer (location given as Alamogordo by Baer, disputed as Coyote/Gardner, Colorado by other sources) that direct…
The US Department of Energy's biennial student solar-house competition, launched 2002 on the National Mall and rebranded BuildingsNEXT in 2025 — the largest institutional demonstra…
A 2002 gathering documented in the Cool Cell development archive by a surviving list of attendees.
Buckminster Fuller's $500 award (1966, shared with Clark Richert) to Drop City for its 'economically poetic architecture'.
May 5, 1996 fire that burned thousands of acres of Carson National Forest and destroyed most Lama Foundation structures, though the Baer-designed Dome complex survived.
First 'Life Technic' conference, hosted by Baer at Ghost Ranch in 1972, the same year and place NMSEA was founded.
October 1968 solar energy conference of about 65 attendees — the first solar conference Baer attended, in the same circuit as Harold Hay.
Three-day fall 1969 gathering in the woods near Santa Barbara, organized by ARC member Dave Evans, at which Zomeworks participated alongside SRI and other countercultural and resea…