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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.
Professional body whose Albuquerque chapter hosted Baer's 2009 slideshow surveying New Mexico passive solar buildings from 1968 to 2009.
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.
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…
French architecture travel journal/blog that documented a 2017 visit to Bruce W. Davis and described the DrumWall's Drop City roots.
Local Corrales newspaper that published Baer's July 2000 irrigation column and his June 2024 obituary.
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…
Maker of the unglazed selective-surface stainless steel absorber Baer tested on his shower system and used in the Zomeworks container prototype schematic.
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…
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.
Institution whose solar house program (1939-1962) belongs to the institutional solar tradition covered by the canonical histories that excluded Baer.
Federal renewable energy lab in Golden, Colorado listed as a source of technical assessment, documentation funding, and grant partnerships for Baer House preservation.
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…
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.
University affiliation of Usenet solar correspondent Nick Pine in the mid-1990s.
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…
Architect working with Zomeworks on border and Navajo Reservation building prospects for Double Play systems, per the 2004 shareholders letter.
SRI Augmentation Research Center figure who accompanied Doug Engelbart to the Libre commune to meet Steve Baer.
One of the developers, with David Boyd and Baer, who brought the Skylid to its documented state.
Director of SRI's Augmentation Research Center who traveled with Bill English to New Mexico's Libre commune specifically to meet Steve Baer.
Illustrator who drew the artwork for Baer's April 1973 Tribal Messenger solar energy chapter.
Author of the August 1979 LBL Appropriate Energy Technology Library Bibliography (LBL-9391) that included Sunspots and Zome Primer.
Albuquerque Journal staff writer who authored the August 21, 2000 article 'Cool pipes chill room naturally' about Zomeworks' Cool Cell.
Of Design Industries, Albuquerque; made the 6-zone aluminum joint used in Baer's zome hardware.
Proposer of the orbital solar-power satellite (funded by a $200,000 AD Little grant) that Baer critiqued in his 1973 Tribal Messenger chapter.
New Mexico city home to Bruce Davis's practice, the AIA chapter Baer addressed in 2009, and the 1956 Bridgers & Paxton solar-heated office building.
Albuquerque school with a 1973 Dave Harrison/Zomeworks greenhouse; its Beadwall greenhouse is photographed in Sunspots.
Bridgers & Paxton's 1956 office headquarters at 213 Truman St. SE, Albuquerque, widely called the world's first solar-heated commercial office building, now on the National Registe…
New Mexico town that is home to Earthship Biotecture and was the center of Peter Rabbit's later poetry career.
Clément Gaillard's French anthology (T&P Work Unit) containing first French translations of two otherwise uncatalogued Baer essays, 'Basic Technologies' and 'The Paradox of the Clo…
Baer's 2009 presentation to the AIA Albuquerque chapter surveying the New Mexico passive solar canon from 1968 to 2009, including his epidemic metaphor for suppressed waves of sola…
Movable-insulation invention (US Patent 3,903,665, Harrison, filed 1973) that blows polystyrene beads between window panes, covered by Mother Earth News in 1974.
Zomeworks' passive climate-control system connecting ceiling water reservoirs to roof-mounted radiator/absorbers by thermosiphon, cooling buildings without electricity, refrigerant…
Steve Baer's 1968 staple-bound account of zonohedra mathematics and car-top dome building, published by the Lama Foundation, which influenced the first Whole Earth Catalog and Lloy…
Steve Baer's original passive solar heat storage invention: a south-facing wall of water-filled drums behind glazing that absorbs solar heat by day and radiates it into the room ov…
Baer's Summer 1974 Coevolution Quarterly article (pp. 80-87) on gravity engines and the low-temperature diving engine.
Book co-authored by Ken Haggard and David Bainbridge on heating, cooling, ventilation, and daylighting using natural flows.
Zomeworks' insulated skylight louver (US Patent 3,884,414) that opens and closes by itself via refrigerant-canister weight shifts, with no electricity, thermostat, or motor.
Zomeworks' unglazed collector panel product, used by Bruce Davis in Double Play installations and cited in Baer's 2003 unglazed collectors article for delivering warm showers throu…
Stewart Brand's December 7, 1972 Rolling Stone article on countercultural computing that quotes Baer as 'dome and solar designer Steve Baer from dusty Albuquerque'.
Kayatekin's 2025 ICON paper — the first academic work to establish the Baer House and Zomeworks in international scholarship, calling the thermosiphon Baer's broadly overlooked cen…
Baer's patented closed-loop convective device (US 3,618,569) that keeps an ice hole open for livestock — the conceptual seed of the double-play thermosiphon lineage.
Zomeworks' mirrored reflector and shade panel system that directs winter sun into south-facing collectors and shades them in summer, developed through four patents.
NMSEA's newsletter, a recurring venue for Baer's late-career writing including the unglazed-collectors article (March/April 2003) and the thermosiphon shower field test.
One of Baer's absurdist Sunspots fiction pieces, revisited by Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic during Occupy Wall Street.
Baer's March 2003 SunPaper article arguing that unglazed collectors beat glazed ones near ambient temperature and introducing the parking-lot IR thermometer lesson.
A. & A. Iske's 1882 gravity heat-engine patent, the earliest version of the recurring bubble-wheel design Baer traced at the US Patent Office in 1973.
Stewart Brand's countercultural reference catalog (first published fall 1968) whose format was directly influenced by Baer's Dome Cookbook and which listed that book in its first e…
Baer's zonohedra-derived structural system (US Patent 3,722,153), fusing 'zone' and 'dome' — simple in structure, complicated in shape, and the form behind Zomeworks' name and the …
Hart and Picciotto's work expanding the mathematical principles of Baer's structural designs, intersecting with Zometool.
1970 Zomeworks publication explaining zome structures, opening with the explicit comparison of zomes to Fuller's geodesic domes.
Commercial 31-zone ball-and-strut construction system developed by Paul Hildebrandt from Steve Baer's geometry; Jose Baer considers it possibly his father's most significant work.