Get Involved

Get Involved

There’s no guarantee.

I’m going to give it to you straight; it’s tough being a climate education nonprofit. This only works if enough of us get involved. Alone, there’s no guarantee we can fix this vital corner of the climate crisis. With you, our chances are so much higher. Whether you can help by giving dollars, finding your best clean heat solution, or helping to spread the message, you can play an essential role.

Give.

Every donation is another person educated on the critical connection between heating and climate change. Our nonprofit’s success relies on the generosity of kindred spirits working to stop climate catastrophe.

Be informed.

Use us. Explore our materials, take part in our classes or set up a presentation for your group. Talk to us. Discover how heating impacts climate and how we can substantially minimize this big chunk of our carbon footprint through practical and affordable individual choices.

Act.

Choose the cleanest heating option practical and affordable for you. You can start with this great article. You can also reach out to our Helpdesk with specific questions about your heating system. Let us help you make the best choice for your wallet and the climate

Plan an info session for your group.

We partner with kindred spirit environmental organizations to create genuine relationships around common goals.

CONTACT US TO PLAN YOUR SESSION

Join the community.

 

Volunteer.

If you’ve got passion to fight climate change and a generous heart, let’s explore a custom volunteer experience for you.

Heat Loss

The two variables of of heat loss are a) geographic location, and b) building performance. Together they will determine the quantity of heat needed to maintain comfort.

Geographic location drives the building's “design day." Your design day is the difference in temperature between the inside and outside of your house on the theoretical coldest day of the year; so in the northeast we calculate a day that is -10ºf outside and comfortable 68ºf inside. This is referred to as the “delta-T” value. A typical delta-T for the northeast is 78º.

Building performance is the big one because there’s nothing we can do about geographic location. Today we can build a really tight thermal envelope, but most of our heating pollution comes from the millions of homes built over the last 100-150 years. We are getting better at buttoning-up those old buildings with insulation and weather sealing but weatherization is still  never going to be enough to overcome the heat loss from a 78º delta-T. That means we need heating systems that can quickly put a whole lot of heat back into those old houses on the days that are really cold.