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Assistant Executive Director
Paid Internship

In the world of green energy, sustainable heating is not well known, but it represents homeowners’ single biggest opportunity to directly reduce their carbon footprint. We are seeking a motivated individual who cares passionately about climate change and is ready to roll up their sleeves and make an impact.

Sustainable Heating Education and Outreach, Inc., is a 501(c)(3). advocacy group dedicated to mitigating climate change through industry development and consumer awareness.

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills. He or she must be a motivated self-starter who can figure out for themselves how to connect their daily workflow with the team’s vision of how to move the mission forward. In return, they will learn donor approach best practices, co-write grant proposals with the current Executive Director, and help set the strategic direction of the organization.

If you’re fired up about social entrepreneurship, sustainability, and green energy this position would be an amazing launch-pad for your career.

Modest stipend. Flexible scheduling. Work from anywhere.

Interested individuals should please reply with the contact form.

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.