Do It In The Dark

March 14th, 2009 - April 3rd, 2009

Do It In The Dark is HEAT's annual energy saving competition between all of the residence halls on campus. The competition runs for 3 weeks, and Facilities monitors each building's energy usage twice a week during this time. The winning res hall will be given free massages for a day during finals week, and residents will be entered into a raffle for individual prizes. If you live on campus, watch out for dorm stormers giving away magnets, stickers, and glow in the dark condoms in your building the week of March 9th! Be conscious of your energy consumption and your res hall could win!

[DiitD] The Greening of Southie

March 30th, 2009 07:00 PM

10 Behrakis

What happens when you're asked to build the city of tomorrow...today? Set on the rugged streets of South Boston, The Greening of Southie, is the story of a revolutionary Green Building, and the union teams who bring it to life. From wheatboard cabinetry to recycled steel, bamboo flooring, to dual-flush toilets, The Macallen Building is something different- a leader in the emerging field of environmentally friendly design. But building green has its challenges, and the job-site has its skeptics. And when things on the building start to go wrong, the young developement team has to keep the project from unraveling. Funny and poignant, The Greening of Southie, is a story of bold ideas, new envrionmentalists, and the future of the way we live.

[DiitD] Bill Nye "The Science Guy"

March 22nd, 2009 07:00 PM

Blackman Auditorium

HEAT and Kappa Sigma present Bill Nye! Bill Nye will be speaking about energy, climate change, and what you can do to help!

[DiitD] SGA Presidential Debate

March 16th, 2009 07:00 PM

10 Behrakis

HEAT will be sponsoring the first SGA Presidenital debate! Come listen to the candidates plans for the next year and voice your concerns.

Distilled Harmony's A Capella Show

February 21st, 2009

Tony Cortese

February 5th, 2009 07:00 PM

Curry Student Center Ballroom

Tony Cortese, co-founder with US Senator John Kerry and President of Second Nature will be speaking in the Ballroom of the Curry Student Center. Second Nature is a nonprofit organization with a mission to develop the national capacity to make health, just, and sustainable action on a foundation of all learning and practice in higher education.

National Teach-In On Global Warming Solutions

February 5th, 2009

Roberta Kalechofsky

December 4th, 2008 07:00 PM

102 West Village G

Roberta Kalechofsky (born May 11, 1931) is an American writer, feminist and animal rights activist, focusing on the issue of animal rights within Judaism and the promotion of vegetarianism within the Jewish community. She is the founder of Jews for Animal Rights and runs Micah Publications, which specializes in the publication of animal-rights and vegetarian literature.

The 11th Hour

November 6th, 2008 07:00 PM

135 Shillman Hall

The 11th Hour is a 2007 feature film documentary, created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment.

Boston GreenFest 2008

September 28th, 2008 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM

City Hall Plaza

Boston GreenFest 2008 is an entertaining education festival celebrating the many ways we can create a better world through greening our neighborhoods, our communities and the entire Boston area.

We will display and demonstrate many fun ways people can save energy and save money with products and systems available today. 

Movies, music, art exhibits, virtual interactive experiences, youthTalks and much more...

Sponsors and exhibitors will have the ability to gain direct contact with Boston area citizens and political leaders. They will also benefit from press coverage of this festival in which we meet the challenge of global climate change together.

Jerry Greenfiield of Ben & Jerry's

September 23rd, 2008 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM

Blackman Auditorium

Jerry Greenfield and his long-time friend and business partner Ben Cohen are the men behind one of the most talked-about, and least conventional, success stories in American business. Cofounder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., Greenfield has helped to build a store front venture into a $300 million ice cream empire by making social responsibility and creative management
strengths instead of weaknesses.

Bringing all of this to life at the lecture podium, Greenfield's presentation delivers a rousing tribute to America's entrepreneurial spirit, full of anecdotes and radical business philosophy. It also addresses the great sense of fun that is the company's hallmark, illustrated with the serving of Ben & Jerry's ice cream for the entire audience.

$5 tickets available at Blackman Auditorium Ticket Office

NU + 1

Presented by RSA, CUP, HEAT, PSA

End of the Year Cookout!

April 16th, 2008

Snell Library Quad

Come celebrate HEAT's accomplishments of the past year with a free vegan cookout and receive a HEAT tote bag! Library Quad 11:45-1:30PM. This free vegan cookout is to celebrate HEAT's accomplishments of this past year. There will be free HEAT tote bags given away. It will take place in the library quad during activities period.

Do It In The Dark

March 16th, 2008 - April 5th, 2008

NU Campus

Co sponsored by the Resident Student Association, ResLife, Terra Society, and NU Facilities. Do It In the Dark is an annual three week long energy saving competition between all of the dorms on campus (does not include leased properties).

Screening of Go Further

March 19th, 2008

20 West Village F

Dorm Storming

March 10th, 2008

NU Dorm

HEAT will be conducting a week of Dorm Storming where they knock door to door handing out energy saving tip sheets as well as Do It In the Dark stickers, buttons, tshirts, glow in the dark frisbees and the notable glow in the dark condoms. Because if you are going to do it in the dark, you want to make sure all your bases are covered. This competition is part of many schools across America who are part of the Campus Climate Challenge, and try to reduce the energy expenditures of their college campuses. There are several events to help educate students on sustainability:

Focus the Nation

January 30th, 2008

this country wide teach-in event was created by professor Stephen Schneider from Stanford university. We asked teachers of all disciplines at the university to speak for twenty minutes relating climate change into their area of expertise. As a pre-event warm-up there was a live web feed of Stephen Schneider on January 30 to which students were able to text in questions. In addition to teachers speaking for twenty minutes in their classes on January 31, during activities period there was a panel of professors who briefly spoke about climate change in their disciplines.

Vegetarian Cookout

October 24th, 2007

HEAT sponsored this vegetarian cookout to help one of its members in her senior thesis to educate students on being vegetarian/vegan and the environmental impacts it creates.

Power of Solar

October 10th, 2007

Sajed Kamal from Solar Fenway, Solar Boston, Alumni of Northeastern undergrad and graduate programs spoke alongside Joe Ranahan from Northeastern Facilities about solar energy and how it applies to Northeastern.

Presidents Climate Commitment Petitions

June 1st, 2007

HEAT's main goal for the spring of 2007 was to show enough student support that President Aoun would sign the climate commitment, forcing Northeastern to become a carbon-neutral school. 4000+ petitions later, President Aoun finally signed the commitment in June.

Do It In the Dark 2007

March 17th, 2007 - April 6th, 2007

First annual Do It In the Dark began with Northeastern's largest scale dorm-storm ever. Several events and movie screenings took place throughout the three weeks. The event was an overall success, with every dorm reducing their total energy usage.