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Peradam 2026-08-01

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…

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

Libre 2026-08-01

Commune in Gardner, Colorado (Huerfano Valley) co-founded in 1968 by Peter Rabbit and Dean Fleming, described as the oldest continuously operating hippie commune in the country; En…

Popular Science 2026-08-01

Magazine that called the Dover Sun House possibly more important than the atom bomb.

Amory Lovins 2026-08-01

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

Bill English 2026-08-01

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

Doug Engelbart 2026-08-01

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

JoAnn Bernofsky 2026-08-01

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

Ken Kern 2026-08-11

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.

Solar Building 2026-08-01

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…

Dome Cookbook 2026-08-01

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…

Whole Earth Catalog 2026-08-01

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…