{"id":156323,"date":"2023-01-26T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/underground-dome-house-of-the-family-who-led-geese-to-fly-home"},"modified":"2023-01-26T15:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:22:44","slug":"underground-dome-house-of-the-family-who-led-geese-to-fly-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/underground-dome-house-of-the-family-who-led-geese-to-fly-home","title":{"rendered":"Underground dome house of the family who led geese to fly home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RoGuvvzHY1A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s energy to stay warm, so they knocked the top off a hill, dropped in ferro-cement domes, and covered it up again with dirt.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen feet below ground, the soil temperature remains about equal to the annual average temperature of the area\u2019s surface air so earth-sheltered homes use sod\u2019s constant temperature to stay warmer in winter and cooler in summer.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Lishman believed in rethinking not just the conventional home, but also how we live. He reimagined his home\u2019s 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).<\/p>\n<p>In 1986, Bill Lishman began training Canada Geese to follow his ultralight aircraft and to \u201cteach\u201d the birds migration routes to avoid a threatened extinction. His work on \u201cOperation Migration\u201d brought him popular recognition with the 1996 movie Fly Away Home starring Jeff Daniels.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/underground-dome-house-of-the-family-who-led-geese-to-fly-home\">Continue reading \u201cUnderground dome house of the family who led geese to fly home\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}