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Digital Sign for Bike for Earth Day 2025
Associated Project(s):Sarthak asked campus communication officers to post digital signs about Bike for Earth Day 2025 on their departmental screens, to promote the event, until Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Attached is the promotional image.
Attached Files:Sustainability Sub-Council Meeting 04/10/2025
Associated Project(s):The Sustainability Sub-Council met on April 10, 2025. The primary agenda items included:
- Energy Performance Contract - College of ACES
- Targets for the next iCAP
- DIA-specific objectives for the next iCAP
The slide deck and meeting minutes are attached.
status update from UES
Associated Project(s):Making good progress on the four rows of solar at the Energy Farm. Today, the AC power was officially turned on. Nextracker is supposed to be onsite on Monday to commission the trackers. That will allow Plant Science folks to till and plant crops. After Monday, the next steps will be getting the DC wire management complete and connected to the inverters, so they can be inspected and then powered on.
March 2025 Prairie Photos
Associated Project(s):March 2025 photos of the Florida Orchard Prairie have been added to the box folder.
Zipcar usage in March 2025
Associated Project(s):The attached PDF contains performance metrics for ZipCar usage on campus for March 2025.
Higher Education Air Travel Emissions Mitigation Strategy Report
Associated Project(s):Karina Jang researched and conducted interviews with 7 universities, 5 from the US and 2 international, to understand their air travel emissions tracking and mitigation strategies. This report summarizes what she found and includes recommendations for the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign to start their air travel emission mitigation framework.
Attached Files:Weekly Digest
Associated Project(s):On Thursday was another installment of our instructional class, which went well. Friday was our first Bike Center on the Quad event, which also went well. We also received our first end-of-semester/graduation donation.
We have a handful of bikes in the queue which we’ll finalize/safety check this week.
The numbers:
Visitors: 39
Sales: $327
Memberships: 6 for $180
Tires/tubes: 4 for $25Education iCAP Team April 2025 Meeting
Associated Project(s):The iCAP Education Team met on Monday, April 7th from 4-5 pm via Teams. First we shared information about the upcoming events during Earth Month. Then we discussed project updates that team members had including AASHE stars data collection, sustainability language in course descriptions, progress towards a sustainability Gen-Ed requirement, a sustainability literacy assessment and outgoing survey, iSEE partnered internship opportunities, and sustainability integration into study abroad. We also discussed student team member ideas like the possibility of composting on campus. The meeting minutes are attached.
Attached Files:Land and Water April Monthly Meeting Minutes and Notes
Associated Project(s):This month, the Land and Water team had their monthly meeting on Friday, April 4, at 9:00 am on a Teams video call. Linked below is the meeting agenda with the meeting notes from what the team discussed. Additionally, a recording of the meeting is linked in the agenda.
Attached Files:Bird BikeShare Bicycles to be Removed
Associated Project(s):Sarthak notified Bird that leftover BikeShare bikes should be removed as soon as possible to avoid being impounded.
iCAP Energy Meeting April 2025
Associated Project(s):The Energy Team had their April meeting on Thursday, April 3rd, from 2:00 - 3:00 PM. The main discussion points included gathering contact information for building managers and finalizing interview questions for the Building Occupancy Pilot Program. The team also reviewed student availability and finalized email communications. Although the meeting was relatively short, significant progress was made. The meeting minutes are attached!
iBuy data FY15-24
Associated Project(s):Attached is paper data from iBuy spanning FY15-24.
Central Stores data CY 2022-2024
Associated Project(s):Here are the numbers for white paper that Central Stores has sold and the current price per ream (as of FY24). These ream numbers are from January 1 2022-December 31 2024:
0% - 25,858 reams $3.80 each
30% - 9,801 reams $6.98 each
100% - 389 reams $5.49 each (ream price cheaper than 30%, because the prices have not been updated in a few years as the 100% paper does not sell anymore)
iCAP Portal Training for Zach Bromberg
Associated Project(s):Sarthak Prasad introduced Zach to the iCAP portal and showed him how to do project updates.
Artificial Intelligence Managing “High tunnel” Food production
Associated Project(s):iSEE seed-funded research project that uses robotics and artificial intelligence to autonomously manage “high tunnel” food production is entering its second year at the University of Illinois Sustainable Student Farm.
Attached Files:May 2024-February 2025 Prairie Photos
Associated Project(s):May 2024-February 2025 photos of the Florida Orchard Prairie have been added to the box folder.
Weekly digest
Associated Project(s):Things are picking up and to meet demand, we’ll work on getting some more bikes for sale. We did have nice 3 speed Build-a-Bike finished this week.
Hoped to have a few more bikes done this last week but all of the ones I safety checked failed and then some—damaged wheels/broken components—but such is the plight of repairing old bikes.
Tonight is the Bike Project Monthly Members Meeting.
This week is our first Bike Center on the Quad Day. Fingers crossed for good weather and a good turnout!
The numbers:
Visitors: 59
Sales: $328
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $150
Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50
Memberships: 2 for $60
Tires/tubes: 5 for $24
2025 Progress Report
Associated Project(s):Attached is the 2025 Progress Report for the 2014 Campus Bike Plan.
Attached Files:Illini Lights Out 3/28
Associated Project(s):At this Friday's Illinii Lights Out event! With your help, 3470 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $527.94 in energy costs. This also prevented 5.05 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 568 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a great impact!