URL: https://wiki.solarfool.org/en/reading_list
Last edited: Brett, 2026-05-14
Captured: 2026-05-14 (mutable web source — sidecar copy)
Description: "Books, articles and other media about passive cooling and heating and related subjects"
| Title | Archive status |
|---|---|
| Dome Cookbook | ✅ Ingested |
| Sunspots | ✅ Ingested (1975 ed + 1979 Cloudburst in collection) |
| Zome Primer | ✅ Ingested |
| Direct Use of the Sun's Energy (Daniels) | ✅ Ingested (stub + PDF) |
| Hay Architect Magazine article | ✅ Sidecar (403 blocked) |
| Hay Mother Earth News interview | ✅ Used as source |
| Solar Home Book (Anderson & Riordan) | Not in archive |
| A Golden Thread (Butti & Perlin) | Not in archive |
| Soft Energy Paths (Lovins) | Not in archive |
| Passive Solar Energy Book (Mazria) | Not in archive |
| Passive Solar Design Handbook (Balcomb, LANL/DOE, 1980–84) | Not in archive |
| Passive Solar Architecture (Bainbridge & Haggard) | Not in archive |
| Passive Solar House Basics (Van Dresser) | Not in archive |
| Zome Geometry (Hart & Picciotto) | Not in archive |
| A Landscape for Humans (Van Dresser, 1972) | Not in archive |
| "Living Off the Grid with Steve Baer" — MEN | Not in archive — priority pending ingest |
| Domebook One, Domebook 2 (Kahn) | Not in archive |
| Shelter (Kahn & Easton) | Not in archive |
Ken Haggard (not "Keith") — co-authored Passive Solar Architecture with David Bainbridge; co-founded the Passive Solar Institute; also involved in the Atascadero Skytherm project (baer-aia-passive-solar-slideshow.md confirms "Hay / Edminster / Haggard"). Our steve-baer.md and peter-van-dresser.md incorrectly use "Keith Haggard" — should be Ken.
Peter Van Dresser — two books now confirmed: Passive Solar House Basics (ISBN 978-0941270908) and A Landscape for Humans (1972). He "built some of the first passive solar houses in the 1950s" — earlier than previously documented.
Passive Solar Design Handbook (Balcomb et al., LANL/DOE, 1980–84) — the standard technical reference from Los Alamos. Different from the USAF handbook (Vols I–III). LANL is in New Mexico, the same state as Baer.
"Zome Geometry" by George W. Hart and Henri Picciotto — directly links to Paul Hildebrandt/Zometool.