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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…

A 2002 gathering documented in the Cool Cell development archive by a surviving list of attendees.

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…

1961 Rome conference where Bliss presented his Arizona nocturnal radiation cooling demonstration; its proceedings appear in the Solar Fool print collection.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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…

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.

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

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

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…

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 …

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

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…

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…

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…

Atlantic writer who quoted Baer's 'The Sun Riots' fiction in full during the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests — the first known appearance of Baer's solar fiction in major national…

Architect working with Zomeworks on border and Navajo Reservation building prospects for Double Play systems, per the 2004 shareholders letter.

Author of Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace, which complements Baer's philosophy of appropriate, sustainable technology.

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

Co-author with Michael Riordan of The Solar Home Book (1976), which contextualizes Baer within the broader passive solar movement.

One of the developers, with David Boyd and Baer, who brought the Skylid to its documented state.

Author of How Buildings Work (Oxford, 1995), quoted in Baer's di-thermal roof materials on why ceiling radiant panels feel better than floor systems.

Author of The Passive Solar Energy Book (1979), a practical passive solar reference held in the Joule Heist collection.

Illustrator who drew the artwork for Baer's April 1973 Tribal Messenger solar energy chapter.

Co-founder of Drop City in 1965 with Clark Richert, JoAnn Bernofsky, and Richard Kallweit.

Author of the August 1979 LBL Appropriate Energy Technology Library Bibliography (LBL-9391) that included Sunspots and Zome Primer.

Director of the circa-2002 Drop City documentary that features Steve Baer on camera.

Co-founder of Drop City in 1965 with Clark Richert, Gene Bernofsky, and Richard Kallweit.

Co-author with Ken Butti of A Golden Thread (1980), the mainstream institutional history of solar energy.

Albuquerque Journal staff writer who authored the August 21, 2000 article 'Cool pipes chill room naturally' about Zomeworks' Cool Cell.

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

Co-author with John Perlin of A Golden Thread (1980), the canonical solar history that omits Baer, Hay, and Thomason.

Co-inventor with Baer of two late Zomeworks patent applications (solar thermal tube plate heat exchanger, 2007; dual-axis high-wind solar panel support, 2010), neither granted.

Co-author with Bruce Anderson of The Solar Home Book (Cheshire Books, 1976).

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.

Karen Terry's single hired helper during the nine-month self-build of the Karen Terry House.

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.

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.

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.

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

Albuquerque school with a 1973 Dave Harrison/Zomeworks greenhouse; its Beadwall greenhouse is photographed in Sunspots.

Corrales house (1972) with a convective air-loop rock-storage system, part of the air-based storage lineage Baer began at Drop City.

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.

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…

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…

1977 SolarVision documentary film by Martin McPhillips on the planning and construction of the Karen Terry House.

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.

Floating plastic check valve used in Zomeworks' di-thermal wall prototypes, named by Joe Minella because the balls could be seen boogieing through clear pipe.

Baer's June 2000 provocation essay arguing against the efficiency argument and the environmental advocacy apparatus of foundations like Rockefeller, MacArthur, and Pew.

Baer's January 2004 essay observing that Earth is about 3.5% closer to the sun in early January, making winter sunlight roughly 7% stronger than aphelion values.

Zomeworks' passive climate-control system connecting ceiling water reservoirs to roof-mounted radiator/absorbers by thermosiphon, cooling buildings without electricity, refrigerant…

Baer's September 2004 letter as Zomeworks president reporting the US 6,357,512 patent, a $93,000 capital raise at $3.00/share, and the roll-form franchise vision.

Steve Baer's regenerator-based gravity heat engine using buoyant divers in hot and cold liquid baths, prototyped and presented in his 1974 CoEvolution Quarterly article.

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…

Lloyd Kahn's 1971 dome book (160,000 copies) that he pulled from print after concluding domes did not work as homes.

Lloyd Kahn's 1970 dome-building book, produced with Bob Easton using tools loaned by Stewart Brand.

Lloyd Kahn's Domebook One (1970) and Domebook 2 (1971), which extended the Dome Cookbook's format influence into mainstream publishing before Kahn concluded domes did not work as h…

Zomeworks' thermosiphon-based passive heating/cooling product line — the subject of Baer's 2004 shareholder pitch, Davis's studio installation, the Los Ranchos container proposal, …

Clark Richert's 1968 archival digital print (72 x 28.5 in.) documenting Drop City, exhibited at MCA Denver's 'West of Center' show in 2011.

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…

Fred Turner's 2006 academic study (U Chicago Press) documenting Brand's brokering between the commune movement and computer research, with Zomeworks and Baer inside the network.

Ed Allen's 1995 Oxford book, quoted in Baer's di-thermal roof materials on why ceiling radiant systems feel better than floor systems.

The curator's 80-item physical book collection (Libib export, 2026), holding many of the reading list's key solar titles including both Sunspots printings.

1970s Mother Earth News article documenting Baer's practical implementations at his Zomeworks compound, a priority pending ingest.

Baer's 2012 follow-up volume to Sunspots, published by Zomeworks; only the cover has been ingested into the archive so far.

Baer's 2002 essay arguing that surfaces, not air, do the real work of nighttime cooling by radiating heat directly to space — the foundational text for the archive's thermal vision…

Baer's 1975 window insulation approach using rigid foam pressed against glass, the simplest of the three Zomeworks window-insulation systems.

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…

Harold Hay's roof-pond passive heating and cooling system — water bags on flat roofs under movable insulation — demonstrated in Phoenix (1967) and Atascadero (1973) and cited as in…

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.

Steve Baer's May 2004 manifesto imagining the practice of 'sun work' — outdoor, tool- and measurement-based solar work opposed to subsidies, certifications, and contrived celebrati…

Baer's July 2000 four-page dark satire imagining the rational project of eliminating clouds and weather to achieve permanent, commodified sunshine.

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.

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.

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.