EDITOR'S NOTES: The author passed away in the 1990's and his work must carry on if humanity is to learn self-sufficiency.

It is known from applying heat-conveying properties of glass structures to the side of a building that an atrium or greenhouse heats the structure to which it is attached. So, we have appended a simple houseplan to this pyramid-structure concept-- as the base upon which a pyramid-type glass greenhouse will serve as 1) roof; 2) heat source; 3) garden-space food source 3) interior-light source and 4) oxygen-source.

It is for the reason that we have become an oxygen-deprived people that we must change the way we live and exist on the surface of the ground, or perish from weakness, from pollution and from chemical intrusions.

And Now, The Author's Text

Over the past few years, since the first publicity on my pyramid in September 1974, I have had literally hundreds of requests for information on the subject of pyramids. It has become apparent that the only way I can accede to all these requests and still have time to pursue my aims with the pyramid is to write small monographs in expensive book form. These will get one started on building and using pyramids, and further discoveries will become the subjects of future books I am including in this book discoveries I have made as well as those made by friends and acquaintances across the North American continent and in other parts of the world. For the latter reports I thank the discoverers and wish to take no credit myself.

I myself see the pyramid as a symbolic sunburst of knowledge, with rays emanating from the center. Following any one of these rays one would learn who knows what, eacy ray being a new train of thought from a separate individual. Somewhere along the line, finally, all the rays would be incorporated into a circle in which they would all be interrelated. My own "thing" is the search for bigger, better and more bountiful crops with which to feed the growing hordes already beginning to crowd the earth beyond endurance.

We must prepare today for tomorrow. We must find new and unorthodox ways to produce nutrients, or possibly our children and for certain our grandchildren, will face a real and ghastly danger of ending up the image of the perambulating human skeletons we see so frequently on our TV screens, listlessly suffering and awaiting a miserable death. It makes me sick to see it. Mankind must realize [they are] faced with a friehtening snowball, this gargantuan increase in the number of human mouths to be fed. If it is a fact that we cannot feed our current population--and it is a fact--next year will be worse, and ten years from now will be unimaginable. How then will we be able to cope in 50 years? Even with the latest technical advances-hybridization, multi-story greenhouses, fertilizers, automatic feeding and watering, artificial lighting--we are falling further and further behind in our bid to feed the world. If we do not come up with some solution--and soon-mankind seems doomed.

The politicians seem almost completely unperturbed, but then who ever heard of a hungry politician?! Wherever I look, inertia and disinterest seem to prevail in high places. This is why I have decided it is up to us ordinary people to take the initiative. If the men and women we pay and trust to shoulder these burdens refuse to assume them, we will just have to fend for ourselves.

It is my belief that the pyramid is the answer to current and future food shortages. Using pyramids, I sincerely believe that I can grow 36 times more and better plants in a given area than any farmer or market gardener can in the same area, using conventional methods.