RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the October 2025 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 1900.70 Megawatt hours.

The October 2025 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.

The iCAP Education Team met on November 7th from 12-1pm via Teams. The group discussed reviving the Levenick Teaching Fellows Program with updated incentives, planning the Green Career Forum for February 18–19, and reviewing findings from the Sustainability Literacy Assessment. They also noted progress on creating an automated database of sustainability-related courses. The meeting minutes are attached. 

Email from Jacob Benjamin:

Snow! First significant snowfall of the year. Made for a messy commute in, but always better than driving.

This upcoming weekend is the Bike Project’s event Cranksgiving, a bicycle food drive. We have a bike trailer set up for canned food donations this week. Weather’ll be great for the event—projected to be 70°!

We’ll continue to tackle donations this week and get some more bikes done for our various programs.

The numbers:

Visitors:
Sales: $823.50

Bikes (Refurb): 1 for $170
Memberships: 11 for $330

Tires/tubes: 13 for $105

Thanks!

The attached PDF contains performance metrics for Zipcar usage on campus for October 2025.

The iCAP Engagement Team met on Thursday, November 6th, 2025 from 4:00pm-5:05pm via Microsoft Teams. The team shared updates about the status of OneIllinois engagement, Greener Campus, and the ZeroWaste Training Module. The team also discussed a possible Newsletter post for E-Week regarding sustainability and the Certified Green Office Program.

The meeting minutes are attached.

Email from Jacob Benjamin:

Deceptive time of year: cooler temps usually mean fewer folks in, but that did not prove out. We were all-stands-full for a good bit last week. This week feels like just about peak foliage, which is a great time to ride a bike!

Additionally, this week we’ll be tackling the abandoned bikes and preparing for our Kids Bike Giveaway event. We have ~5 kids bikes done already here at CBC. I’ll do inventory at Urbana and meet with Marketing folks to get the word out.

The numbers:

Visitors: 89
Sales: $595

Memberships: $10 for $300
Tires/tubes: 16 for $146

Thanks!

The Volunteer Instruction Guide was updated for the fall 2025 Bike Census. Please see attached

Email from Jacob Benjamin:

I was out Friday and Monday so this is a day late. I was in Berkeley, CA which has roundabouts at all of their side-street intersections. (Hint, hint.)

Pretty uneventful week otherwise. I’ll continue work on the containers and begin prep for our Kids Bike Giveaway event, which’ll be on 12/20. Look for flyers/advertisements for that next week.

The numbers:

Visitors: 106

Sales: $157.50
Memberships: 15 for $450
Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50
Tires/tubes: 12 for $101

Thanks!

At this past Friday's Illini Lights Out event, 3068 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $466.78 in energy costs. This also prevented 4.78 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 469 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a huge impact! 

At this Friday's Illini Lights Out event, 3454 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $525.51 in energy costs. This also prevented 4.7 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 462 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a great impact! 

At this Friday's Illini Lights Out event! With your help, 3454 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $525.51 in energy costs. This also prevented 4.7 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 462 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a great impact! 

The Land and Water team met for their monthly October meeting on Friday, October 24th, 2-3 PM. This month, the team discussed ongoing research around the usage of gray water in Illinois and other states' plumbing systems, the new map locating the milkweed planting locations, current and ongoing MOU requests, the status of the maintenance of the Florida Orchard Prairie, and green stormwater infrastructure controls on campus. Attached below are the agenda minutes, which show the details of what was discussed during the meeting. The meeting recording is available to watch in the meeting minutes. 

The Transportation Team met on October 17th, between 1:00 - 2:00pm. We discussed the Air Emissions Recommendation we had just sent on to the IWG and drafted a recommendation on e-bike policy changes on campus. We talked about student research projects, including commuter program research and expanding bike racks on campus.

Email from Jacob Benjamin:

Things are a tick slower now that the temps have dipped. I’ve been pulling from the abandoned bike containers for parts, mostly tires and saddles as those have been most in-demand. We have two bikes on the sales floor with a handful in the queue.  Our supply of checked-over Build-a-Bikes is returning to an acceptable number as well.

This week I’ll tackle the containers of bikes and work to get them organized between bikes we’re keeping and those we’ll have scrapped.

The numbers:

Visitors: 96

Sales: $1,224.39

Memberships: 19 for $570
Tires/tubes: 39 for $353

Thanks!

The iCAP Engagement Team met on Wednesday, October 15th, from 3:00pm-3:30pm via Microsoft Teams. The team shared updates on the Green Chapter project, composting efforts at Illinois Street Resident Halls, and the Sustainable Learning Living Community's film festival.

The meeting minutes are attached.

The attached PDF contains performance metrics for Zipcar usage on campus for September 2025.

September 2025 photos of the Florida Orchard Prairie have been added to the box folder.