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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.
Boulder-based solar advocacy organization for which the Baer House is described as the physical origin of its most technically rigorous lineage.
University where Polly Cooper served as Architecture faculty (1974-2002, emerita) and met Ken Haggard in 1975.
Publisher of the 1979 second edition of Baer's Sunspots, subtitled 'An Exploration of Solar Energy Through Fact and Fiction'.
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…
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…
Lloyd Kahn's publishing company, still active alongside his Substack as of 2025.
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 …
Author of Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace, which complements Baer's philosophy of appropriate, sustainable technology.
Photographer credited for the March 1973 'Solar Energy' insert photographs of New Mexico passive solar installations in the Tribal Messenger.
Co-editor of Activism in Architecture: Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design (Routledge, 2018).
Author of The Passive Solar Energy Book (1979), a practical passive solar reference held in the Joule Heist collection.
Pioneering American architect (1887-1989) whose 60+ year career included experimental material houses and the 1948 Dover Sun House, the first solar-heated residence. FAIA 1961.
Illustrator who drew the artwork for Baer's April 1973 Tribal Messenger solar energy chapter.
MIT chemical engineer (1903-1998) who chaired MIT Solar Energy Research for 26 years, built MIT Solar Houses I-IV, developed the Hottel-Whillier flat-plate collector model, and cla…
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 Ken Butti of A Golden Thread (1980), the mainstream institutional history of solar energy.
Co-editor of Activism in Architecture: Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design (Routledge, 2018), which contains Baer's chapter on Harold Hay's influence.
Hungarian-American biophysicist and solar energy pioneer (1900-1995) who developed the Dover Sun House's Glauber's salt heat storage system, a WWII portable solar desalinator, and …
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 …
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…
Texas city (29.41N, 98.48W) identified via a hyperlocal weather station as the actual build site for the miniature Double Play cat-shelter experiment, with humid conditions that ma…
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…
David Bainbridge's 1981 practitioner's guide (reissued 2005) to water-wall thermal mass, which independently corroborates the Baer House DrumWall installation.
2018 Routledge volume (eds. McDonald & Dayer) for which Baer wrote the chapter 'Harold Hay's influence and the Zomeworks Corporation', formally acknowledging Hay as an upstream inf…
Baer's January 1984 SUNPAPER essay containing Baer House temperature data from August 1983, U-zero ventilation theory, and a LASL critique.
2006 book co-authored by Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper (BookSurge Publishing).
Hannah R. Clark's August 1979 DOE-funded bibliography (LBL-9391) that included Sunspots and Zome Primer, the earliest federal institutional endorsement of Baer's work.
Peter Van Dresser's practical guide drawing on his pioneering 1950s New Mexico passive solar houses.
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.
Bainbridge and the Steens' work on straw bale building materials, complementing passive solar approaches with sustainable low-cost construction.
Dave Harrison's 1975 Beadwall patent ('Heat energy transmission control panel'), assigned personally rather than to Zomeworks.
The 2002 Passive Heating and Cooling System patent held by Zomeworks — the Cool Cell architectural system patent underpinning the Double Play.