#new-mexico

First 'Life Technic' conference, hosted by Baer at Ghost Ranch in 1972, the same year and place NMSEA was founded.

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

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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.

New Mexico governor whose Water Innovation Fund financed the 2006 night-sky radiant cooling potentials report.

Photographer credited for the March 1973 'Solar Energy' insert photographs of New Mexico passive solar installations in the Tribal Messenger.

Director of SRI's Augmentation Research Center who traveled with Bill English to New Mexico's Libre commune specifically to meet Steve Baer.

Nuclear physicist turned passive solar pioneer (1935-2023) who directed the LANL Solar Energy Group, led authorship of the DOE Passive Solar Design Handbook, and brought scientific…

Co-author, with Mark Chalom and Bristol Stickney, of the 2006 New Mexico night-sky radiant cooling potentials report.

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.

Steve Baer's cluster of connected zomes in Corrales, New Mexico, built beginning in 1971 as the first full-scale testbed for DrumWall, Skylid, and Sunbender, still passively heatin…

1978 Baer/Zomeworks drum wall and clerestory project in Pecos, New Mexico, surveyed in the 2009 AIA slideshow.

New Mexico town where Steve Baer built his zome house in 1971-72 and where the Baer family and Benjamin Rodefer grew up; a center of 1970s passive solar interest.

New Mexico village where Peter Van Dresser relocated in 1949, ran a small restaurant, and built solar- and wind-powered houses.

Northern New Mexico site where NMSEA was co-founded in 1972, where the first Life Technic conference was held, and where the Sun-dwellings project was built; Van Dresser is buried …

The second passive solar house built in New Mexico (Santa Fe, 1974) — a sub-1,000 sq ft four-level direct-gain design by David Wright, built largely by Karen Terry herself.

New Mexico village whose Agri-Nature Center — a working farm and education center with repeat visitation — is the proposed demonstration site for the Double Play shipping-container…

Site in Placitas, New Mexico where Baer and collaborators practiced zonahedra construction in 1966-1968, before Zomeworks existed.

1976 state office building in Taos with insulated drum shades credited to William Mingenbach, surveyed in Baer's 2009 AIA slideshow.

New Mexico city where Van Dresser built a refined solar adobe house near Canyon Road around 1956, later called 'the first solar house west of the Mississippi'.

New Mexico town that is home to Earthship Biotecture and was the center of Peter Rabbit's later poetry career.

New Mexico site where the 2006 NSRC report's ten radiator panels were tested over two summers.

Complete extracted model of Bristol Stickney's 2006 NSRC cooling-calculator workbook: every formula, constant, zone datum, and display format, with cell-level provenance.

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…

Baer's January 1984 SUNPAPER essay containing Baer House temperature data from August 1983, U-zero ventilation theory, and a LASL critique.

2007 documentary chronicling Mike Reynolds's license fight and his drafting of New Mexico's Sustainable Development Testing Site Act.

Peter Van Dresser's practical guide drawing on his pioneering 1950s New Mexico passive solar houses.

2006 state-funded report by Mark Chalom Architect with Bristol Stickney and Kate Snider quantifying NSRC potential across New Mexico's 11 climate zones from two summers of radiator…

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.

2005 New Mexico legislation drafted by Mike Reynolds permitting experimental off-grid construction.

The 2002 Passive Heating and Cooling System patent held by Zomeworks — the Cool Cell architectural system patent underpinning the Double Play.