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The US Department of Energy's biennial student solar-house competition, launched 2002 on the National Mall and rebranded BuildingsNEXT in 2025 — the largest institutional demonstra…

Buckminster Fuller's $500 award (1966, shared with Clark Richert) to Drop City for its 'economically poetic architecture'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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…

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-editor of Activism in Architecture: Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design (Routledge, 2018).

Primary organizer and contact of Solar Fools, working to bring Steve Baer's passive heating and cooling designs into production.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Author of The Owner-Built Home (1972) and other self-construction guides (1927-1986) who shared Baer's DIY ethos and died when an experimental earth-sheltered dome collapsed.

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 …

Architect whose 'sitting in shorts during a polar vortex' story is the model example of Passive House comfort-framed messaging.

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.

Harold Hay's full-scale 1,100 sq ft Skytherm roof-pond house built 1973 in Atascadero, California, which operated for roughly 40 years and was later donated to Cal Poly.

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.

Beadwall house in Placitas, NM (1980) designed by Dave Harrison, shown in the 2009 AIA passive solar slideshow.

Persian city that by 1870 had numerous yakhchals serving both wealthy and poor residents with pond-frozen ice.

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.

South Texas region about 220 miles from San Antonio, hotter and more humid on average, on which the cat-shelter experiment's initial climate research was mistakenly based.

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…

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'.

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 Wright's own 1974 Santa Fe adobe direct-gain house and office, the building the Karen Terry House was a variation of.

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…

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

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

Solar Fools' brand name for Baer's Cool Cell / radiative sky cooling system, used commercially since the 1990s to cool batteries and electronics in desert environments.

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, …

2006 book co-authored by Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper (BookSurge Publishing).

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.

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…

Low-cost single-board computer at the heart of the archive's reusable off-grid sensor and logging rig for small passive-thermal experiments.

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…

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.

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.

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

Circa-1985 multi-volume USAF engineering guide (Architectural Energy Corp.) whose air-only definition of passive cooling documents the institutional mainstream that excluded water-…

Hart and Picciotto's work expanding the mathematical principles of Baer's structural designs, intersecting with Zometool.