Climate Solutions // I S S U E # 6 0 // E X T R E M E   H E A T The Sun House By Cadence Bambenek In 2007, my mom broke ground on her home deep in the northern Wisconsin scrub oak forest. It sits on an eight-acre plot on a small hill overlooking the Totagatic River, a small tributary that feeds into the Namekagon River, and, eventually, the Mississippi.