To deal with an unusually high water table, the home was built on the surface and covered with dirt dug from the front yard. The hole that resulted quickly filled from the ground water to make a private pond.
Still, the most advanced book available on the subject is Passive Annual Heat Storage, Improving the Design of Earth Shelters. This 1983 text is still quite up to date as it teaches the basic methods of understanding natural heat flow methods that never change. Other supplementary materials, home plans and instruction videos are available.
You can order books, videos, and papers on a large variety of topics which are available from the Rocky Mountain Research Center.
