Annualized Solar "self-heating" homes

Hi, all,

How many times, when your home is too hot in summer, have you wished you could "just bottle it up", for free heat next winter?

 I was trained in architecture and began exploring simple solar heating techniques in the 1960s, despite my profs' insistances that such efforts were irrelevant, because we'd all be getting free energy from the "friendly atom" by the next decade. 

And I became concerned about and began strategizing against Global Climate Change after reading of such possibilities in 1959, in Scientific American. 

So over the years since, I've been innovating and sharing ways to build more energy-efficient, energy-capturing and carbon-sequestering homes.  I've explored, designed with, written and spoken publicly about earth-sheltering, green roofs and  range of natural and salvaged materials, including strawbales, high-density strawblocks, ricehulls, rammed earth, cob, rammed tires, tirebales, salvaged bottles, used carpeting, etc.

And I've developed simple, inexpensive ways to capture heat from the SUMMER sun, and store it in the earth beneath a dwelling, such that 6 months later it predictably comes back up though the floor to provide winter warmth.  For more on how this works and can be a part of your next home (or may even be retrofitable to your current home), feel free to visit my informational website.

I'm freely sharing this website information because I want to do my small part in leaving the best possible future to my grandchildren and yours. 

My wife and I also do what we can to "walk (and drive) the talk" in our own lives: heating without fossil fuels, recycling, living simply and intentionally low-income, and driving an electric Zap Zebra EV and riding electric scooters for as much of our travel as possible. 

It's good to be in community with others who also care and try... : )

Don Stephens, InA,                                                                            Innovating in planet-friendly home design since 1960,                          www.greenershelter.org