organizations

Environmental design firm founded 1973 by Jonathan Hammond in Winters/Davis, California. Not Steve Baer's group — Hammond authored the nation's first climatically adapted building …

Research and publishing organization founded by David Bainbridge circa 1980–81 in Davis, California. Focused on water wall passive solar design and integral passive solar water hea…

Passive-solar architectural practice founded 1976 by Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper in San Luis Obispo, California. Over 300 buildings designed, ~200 built. Named 'Top 10 Green Archi…

Trust that funds documentation of culturally significant vernacular buildings, worth approaching for a Baer House documentation grant.

Newspaper that ran the August 21, 2000 article 'Cool pipes chill room naturally', the earliest known mainstream press coverage of the Cool Cell in the archive.

Cat welfare organization whose outdoor shelter build guidance informed the miniature Double Play cat-shelter design dimensions.

Professional body whose Albuquerque chapter hosted Baer's 2009 slideshow surveying New Mexico passive solar buildings from 1968 to 2009.

Boulder-based solar advocacy organization for which the Baer House is described as the physical origin of its most technically rigorous lineage.

College Baer attended intermittently (leaving in 1957 and again after conflict); his memorial was co-written by his son Jose for a 50th-reunion context.

Magazine that published the December 2020 in-depth article on Harold Hay, Skytherm, and the quest for passive cooling.

Firm (Holtz) that authored the USAF Passive Solar Handbook volumes for the Air Force Engineering Directorate circa 1985.

Animal welfare organization whose winter community-cat shelter guidance set the size and layout precedent for the cat-shelter experiment.

North Carolina experimental college where Peter Rabbit worked the garden and greenhouse to audit classes taught by Charles Olson and Buckminster Fuller.

Albuquerque mechanical consulting engineering firm founded in 1951 that engineered the 1956 Solar Building, the documented predecessor to the Baer House in New Mexico's passive-sol…

University where Polly Cooper served as Architecture faculty (1974-2002, emerita) and met Ken Haggard in 1975.

French architecture travel journal/blog that documented a 2017 visit to Bruce W. Davis and described the DrumWall's Drop City roots.

Solar company partly co-owned by a Michael Elliston when it bought ARCO's Carrizo Plains PV plant in 1990.

Publisher of the 1979 second edition of Baer's Sunspots, subtitled 'An Exploration of Solar Energy Through Fact and Fiction'.

Local Corrales newspaper that published Baer's July 2000 irrigation column and his June 2024 obituary.

Modern-movement building conservation organization whose identification process and endorsement would strengthen a Baer House National Register case.

Counterculture commune near Trinidad, Colorado where Baer built what he called the first convective air loop rock storage system that worked (1967-68), documented in the Dome Cookb…

Mike Reynolds's Taos-based firm (originally Solar Survival Architecture) that builds Earthships and runs the Earthship Academy, visitor center, and rental program.

Organization whose August 2025 coverage tied passive and sustainable cooling to rising US heat-death statistics and flagged 2025 federal cuts to climate technical-assistance grants…

Maker of the unglazed selective-surface stainless steel absorber Baer tested on his shower system and used in the Zomeworks container prototype schematic.

Baer's separate engineering vehicle at Zomeworks' founding, assignee of the 1969 osmotic heat pipe patent US 3,561,525.

Swiss technical university where Baer studied engineering and metal welding after his US Army service in Germany.

Publication whose 2006 forum thread provides the archive's only long-term real-world Beadwall performance data, from a 1983 superinsulated home.

Chicago foundation that has funded documentation and preservation of architecturally significant structures, a realistic documentation-grant source for the Baer House.

Commercial radiative-cooling company named by MIT Technology Review (Dec 2025) as an active player.

Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology, which published Kayatekin's 2025 paper on Steve Baer and the double-play thermosiphon.

Intentional interfaith spiritual community near San Cristobal, New Mexico, founded 1967, whose 'cookbook fund' published Baer's Dome Cookbook and whose first structure was a Baer-d…

Federal lab whose 1979 DOE-funded Appropriate Energy Technology library bibliography placed Sunspots and Zome Primer among core references — the earliest federal institutional endo…

National lab whose radiative-cooling-panel example was covered by EESI in August 2025.

Commune in Gardner, Colorado (Huerfano Valley) co-founded in 1968 by Peter Rabbit and Dean Fleming, described as the oldest continuously operating hippie commune in the country; En…

Magazine whose feature on the Dover Sun House staying warm all winter without a furnace drove the house's massive public enthusiasm.

National lab that produced the DOE Passive Solar Design Handbook (Balcomb et al., 1980-84), the definitive technical reference for passive solar design.

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, which exhibited Drop City material in 'West of Center' (2011), hosts Richert's permanent Riemannian Tangencies installation, and mounted his 2019…

Magazine whose critique 'Why the Solar Decathlon Should Enter the Real World' names the demonstration-project-theater failure mode.

Institution whose solar house program (1939-1962) belongs to the institutional solar tradition covered by the canonical histories that excluded Baer.

Publication whose December 2025 article on radiative cooling coatings names active commercial players and cites 15-20% AC energy reductions from pilot coatings.

Magazine that profiled Harold Hay, published a 1974 Beadwall article, and ran the 1970s 'Living Off the Grid with Steve Baer' feature documenting Baer's Zomeworks compound.

Michigan State University museum that hosted Oscar Tuazon's Water School exhibition in 2019.

Federal renewable energy lab in Golden, Colorado listed as a source of technical assessment, documentation funding, and grant partnerships for Baer House preservation.

Preservation organization whose Denver field office covers New Mexico and whose Preservation Action Fund makes emergency loans for at-risk properties like the Baer House.

Foundation with capacity to hold conservation easements and serve as an intermediary vehicle for Baer House preservation.

State SHPO that administers the National Register process, survey funding, and state historic tax credits relevant to the Baer House.

Organization named as a possible holder of a structural and systems preservation easement on the Baer House.

501(c)(3) solar-education nonprofit and New Mexico ASES chapter co-founded by Steve Baer, Peter Van Dresser, and Ken Haggard at Ghost Ranch in 1972; publishes the SunPaper newslett…

University with applied energy research programs listed as a less obvious but possible Baer House academic steward.

Austrian organization that housed 3,500 students per year across nine Passive House dormitories, using institutional bulk deployment as living demonstration.

Timothy Maloney's company that developed four generations of rotationally-molded water-wall modules for passive heating and cooling, holding four patents from 1981-82.

Institute behind the Passive House (Passivhaus) standard, cited as the clearest scaling success in the archive's promotion research (2,500 units built in Massachusetts with 35,000 …

UK Passive House affiliate that deliberately pitched insurance, legal, climate-risk, and finance sectors to diversify beyond the sustainability niche.

Veterinary information source whose feline heatstroke thresholds (104F+ body temperature) constrained the cat-shelter experiment's safety design.

Commercial radiative-cooling company named by MIT Technology Review (Dec 2025) as an active player.

Magazine that called the Dover Sun House possibly more important than the atom bomb.

Basalt, Colorado institute whose passive solar campus and donor relationships make it the strongest non-academic institutional candidate for Baer House stewardship outside New Mexi…

Denver newspaper whose April 26, 1980 profile of Karen Terry documents her passive solar house and David Wright's role.

Regional USDA grant program whose Local Education and Demonstration grants fund prototype-plus-public-education projects like the proposed Los Ranchos container display.

Lloyd Kahn's publishing company, still active alongside his Substack as of 2025.

Commercial radiative-cooling company named by MIT Technology Review (Dec 2025) as an active player in the current passive-cooling wave.

Scholarly society whose peer-reviewed SAH Archipedia entry documents the Baer House and places it in New Mexico's passive-solar architectural lineage.

Network of New Mexico passive solar practitioners including Bruce W. Davis and Karen Terry, keeper of a reading list and the Solar Fool library, and the most proximate steward cand…

Commercial radiative-cooling company named by MIT Technology Review (Dec 2025) as an active player.

Home of Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center; connected to Zomeworks in its founding year through the 1969 Peradam gathering and visits between ARC researchers and the commune …

Taos poetry organization (1982-2003) co-founded by Peter Rabbit and Anne MacNaughton, best known for its World Heavyweight Championship Poetry Bout.

Publication where Alexis Madrigal wrote about Baer's Sun Riots fiction during Occupy Wall Street in 2011.

Whole Earth-lineage periodical that published Baer's 'Gravity Engines and the Diving Engine' in Summer 1974.

Commune newsletter that serialized Baer's informal first-draft solar book across eight issues from March to October 1973, teaching solar physics through junkyards and everyday obje…

Council that coined the archive's citation for 'pilotisation' — pilot projects built for PR with no defined route to portfolio-wide adoption.

Military branch whose circa-1985 Passive Solar Handbook defined passive cooling as air-based ventilation only, omitting Hay, Baer, Zomeworks, and water-based night-sky cooling acro…

University whose environmental design and ATLAS programs are suggested as Baer House research partners via the Drop City counterculture-architecture connection.

Albuquerque university whose School of Architecture and Planning is identified as the strongest academic candidate to acquire the Baer House as a field research station.

Federal agency that funded the LBL AET library, produced the Passive Solar Design Handbook with Los Alamos, and runs the Solar Decathlon and Energy Saver programs cited across the …

Local government with a historic preservation ordinance that could landmark the Baer House without requiring acquisition.

University affiliation of Usenet solar correspondent Nick Pine in the mid-1990s.

Publication documenting the green-building performance gap, including UK showcase buildings using up to 3.5x more energy than modeled.

Italian Passive House affiliate that trained over 5,000 designers over two decades before pivoting around 2017-18 to pitching builders directly.

Company co-founded by Steve Baer in 1969 that developed and sold the DrumWall, Skylid, Sunbender, battery cabinets, Cool Cell, and Double Play, and passed to Benjamin Rodefer's sol…