Underground dome house of the family who led geese to fly home

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Paula and Bill Lishman spent many winters in a poorly-insulated A-frame cabin before realizing they needed to go underground to use the earth’s energy to stay warm, so they knocked the top off a hill, dropped in ferro-cement domes, and covered it up again with dirt. • Thanks to skylights cut into every dome and the white-powdered marble that covers the interior, their earth-sheltered home is naturally well-lit despite being below the frost line. • Fifteen feet below ground, the soil temperature remains about equal to the annual average temperature of the area’s surface air so earth-sheltered homes use sod’s constant temperature to stay warmer in winter and cooler in summer. • Bill Lishman believed in rethinking not just the conventional home, but also how we live. He reimagined his home’s refrigerator by building a round appliance that pops up out of the countertop so the heavier cool air stays inside when opened (via compressed air). • In 1986, Bill Lishman began training Canada Geese to follow his ultralight aircraft and to teach the birds migration routes to avoid a threatened extinction. His work on Operation Migration brought him popular recognition with the 1996 movie Fly Away Home starring Jeff Daniels. • Paula Lishman also believes in rethinking convention. In 1979 she began her fashion label reinventing the fur trade by using spun fur to knit her clothing. • http://williamlishman.com/ • http://www.paulalishman.com • On *faircompanies https://faircompanies.com/videos/unde...

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