#biography

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.

Poet who met Peter Rabbit at Libre, married him, and co-founded the Taos Poetry Circus with him (1982-2003).

Co-founder of the Lama Foundation in 1967, later known as Asha Greer.

SRI Augmentation Research Center figure who accompanied Doug Engelbart to the Libre commune to meet Steve Baer.

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.

Co-author with Lloyd Kahn of Shelter (1973), the global vernacular building classic sometimes called Domebook 3.

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

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.

Author of The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling, providing updated passive solar techniques building on pioneers like Baer.

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

Geometric abstractionist painter (b. 1933) who co-founded Park Place Gallery in New York and the Libre commune in Colorado, building a 40-foot geodesic dome studio. Often misidenti…

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.

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.

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.

Co-author with Henri Picciotto of Zome Geometry, which expands on the mathematical principles behind Baer's structural designs.

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

Co-author with George W. Hart of Zome Geometry, on the mathematics of Baer's zonohedra-based designs.

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…

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-founder of the Lama Foundation in 1967 with Barbara and Steve Durkee.

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-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-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.

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

Co-author of Design for a Limited Planet, which features Baer's early work alongside other ecological designers.

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.

Spiritual teacher (Richard Alpert) who stayed at the Lama Foundation in 1970, where the community produced the manuscript that became Be Here Now.

Co-founder of Drop City in 1965 alongside Clark Richert and the Bernofskys.

Collaborator who ran the February 1974 reflector tests with Baer showing skylight reflectors increase heat gain by more than 30%.

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