SEE PASSIVELY HEATED UNDERGROUND HOUSES CAN BE BEAUTIFUL TOO!

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Start with "The Beale Solar-Heated Subterranean Guest House", pages 80—81, in MOTHER NO. 45. Then move on to MOTHER NO. 46's Plowboy Interview with Andy Davis (in which Andy tells how he built a 1,200-square-foot, three-bedroom underground home—which looks like $60,000—for only $15,000 in northern Illinois . . . and how he heated the building during the winter of 1976177 for the ridiculously low sum of $1.29).

Next up will be The Plowboy Interview with David Wright in MOTHER NO. 47. David has designed over 30 "sun tempered" and "passively solar conditioned" houses . . . and the interview was conducted in his present (97% heating and cooling self-sufficient) home on the coast of northern California.

Then, to learn how Jesse Savell—a contractor in Cotton, California—builds aboveground structures that are almost as energy efficient as the underground dwellings covered by the rest of the pieces listed here—read "Here's a Passively Heated and Cooled House That You Can Afford . . . and Will Want", pages 116—118, in MOTHER NO. 48.

"Landis and Pamela Gores' Semi-Subterranean 'House for all Seasons"', pages 64—65, MOTHER NO. 49, has another somewhat different slant on the subject. And "The Paul Isaacson Family Lives in the House of the Future", pages 101—103, MOTHER NO. 50, introduces still another passively solar heated, underground dwelling viewpoint, design, and method of construction.

(See pages 66—67 of this issue for information on how to order MOTHER's back issues.)

THE INCREDIBLE "SAVERSHOWER" WATER AND ENERGY SAVER

In their never-ending pursuit of energy savings, Buck Valle and the other good folks at SEE, Inc. recently tested a unique new shower head called the "SaverShower". And the gadget, they found, immediately reduced their hot water consumption so dramatically . . . that SEE, Inc. has acquired a dealership for the whole line of "Saver" fixtures and is now pushing them just as zestfully as the firm promotes its energy-conserving houses.

In fact, Buck Valle made a special trip all the way from SEE, Inc.'s home base of Columbus, Ohio to MOTHER'S offices in Hendersonville, North Carolina a few days ago . . . just to tell this magazine's editors about this rather amazing energy- and water-saving (and sewage-reducing) device.

As Buck pointed out: "Few families yet realize the almost unbelievable amount of money the typical household shells out every year for hot water. Which, in turn, makes it a little difficult sometimes to understand just how much one of these simple $12.95 shower heads can shave off the average annual electric bill. Believe it or not, though, our tests have shown us that those savings can easily add up to $120 a year. That's nearly a 1,000 return on your investment every 12 months!"

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