All, Made some headway on the abandoned bikes and already have six on the sales floor. We tabled at the Green Quad Day last week as well. This week I’ll work on tallying inventory--and the marketing/publicity—for the Kids Bike Giveaway as well as getting regular bikes up for sale.
The numbers:
Visitors: 47
Sales: $862
Build-a-Bike: 1 for $40
Memberships: 14 for $420
Tire/tubes: 17 for $131
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center
Dear Sarthak,
Thank you again for applying to the League of American Bicyclists' Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) program! After careful review of your 2023 application, and in consultation with local cyclists and advocates, I am pleased to inform you that University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is awarded a Silver BFU designation. Congratulations! You should take great pride in the bicycle friendly campus you have created for your students, employees, and visitors!
The official announcement of the 2023 BFU Awards will be made next Thursday, October 26, through the distribution of a national press release and online at www.bikeleague.org. We appreciate you keeping the news of your award private until then so that we may have a more effective and impacting message. We hope that you too will announce your designation on October 26th.
Included below are links to an announcement toolkit for your use, along with the 2023-2027 Silver BFU award seals.
2023 BFU Award Announcement Toolkit: https://bit.ly/BFU_2023_AnnouncementToolkit
2023-2027 Silver BFU Award Seal image files: https://bit.ly/BFU_Silver_2023
We love to showcase our new and renewing Bicycle Friendly Universities on the League's blog and social media platforms! To help us highlight your campus as a Bicycle Friendly University, we invite you to submit photos and quotes about bicycling on your campus through our BFU Story Form!
In the coming weeks, detailed feedback on your application will be sent via email and you will receive a Bicycle Friendly University award letter and certificate in the mail. If you would like to order additional materials to promote your BFU designation, please visit our online store here.
Your award designation is good for four years, through 2027, after which time you will be reminded to renew. You are welcome to renew before then if your campus makes considerable improvements and would like to be considered for a higher designation.
Congratulations again on your efforts, and I look forward to our continued work!
Best,
Amelia Neptune
Director, Bicycle Friendly America
League of American Bicyclists
On 10/17/2023, Sarthak Prasad gave an overview of the iCAP and the iCAP Portal to the two new Sustainable Transportation interns, Sam Wuebbles and Tushar Kokitkar. They were also trained on how to post project updates to the iCAP Portal.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the September 2023 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 954.6 Megawatt hours.
The September 2023 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
BPAC met on October 17, 2023. See attached the agenda and supporting documents.
Please see the attached link to read the F&S newsletter.
At Friday's Illini Lights Out event, 6,020 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $915.91 in energy costs. This also prevented 7.238 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 828 gallons of gasoline being consumed.
After the 'Learn How to Ride a Bike' event held on October 7th 2023, the 2 balance bikes used were stored at the Campus Bike Center. They were returned to Jeff Yockey on October, 16th 2023, by Sarthak Prasad and I (Tushar).
NPRE/GLBS 201 class visited with Professor Daniel Andruczyk (5 students) on October 13, 2023.
Currently, 70 of the first 80 building dashboards are complete, which represents 92% of the University's energy consumption. Many of the dashboards are visible on building video displays for all building occupants to view. They continue to vet the data streams and will add more dashboards as they continue our efforts in the future. We contract Hawkeye Energy Solutions to develop and maintain the dashboards.
September's TED Talk: Eco-Edition discussion was hosted by iSEE Greener Campus Intern, Lina Avalos. Avalos gave a powerful presentation on the subject of environmental justice, diving into the basics of the subject, as well as her own personal experience with E-J growing up in Chicago.
If you missed the discussion or would like to reference any materials Avalos presented, see the attached file.
iSEE's TED Talk: Eco-Edition series will be back in November for a discussion on recycling!
Parkland Environmental Biology class visited (24 students) on October 12, 2023. *second class
Note - The Foreign Language Building (FLB) has been renamed to Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Building (LCLB).
Green roof trees are scheduled to be installed in the spring of 2024.
Mowing at the Dorner Drive retention pond is restricted. Brent Lewis has hired an external ecologist for targeted herbicide spot spraying in this area, and this process is currently underway.
This project is in progress, with the primary challenge being the insufficient number of participants to maintain the meadow. One proposed solution under consideration is to engage students through fieldwork.
There is a prospect for collaboration between the iCAP Education and iCAP Land and Water teams to develop a course that would involve students in the maintenance of the meadow.
The proposed project will not proceed as initially planned due to the challenges associated with implementing a 100-level course. However, it is being reconsidered and might take on a different form, possibly by mandating new students to obtain a sustainability certificate. The iCAP Education team is actively exploring various alternative options.
Developing and sending out the sustainability literacy assessment will play a role in shaping this project.
The recommendation for Sustainability in Study Abroad has been approved!
The stakeholders identified for this project include the Illinois Abroad Council Steering Committee, Environmental Sustainability Study Abroad Working Group, and representatives from study abroad programs in each college.
The forthcoming steps involve a collaborative effort to establish policies and procedures with these stakeholders.
The Green Career Fair is in the process of development, with a scheduled date of February 27th 2024, at the Illini Union Ballroom.
The iCAP Education team has prioritized this project for the fall semester of 2023. We are currently in the process of finalizing the event's name and determining the list of invited companies.
Following is the response from Dr. Ehab Kamarah from F&S on October 11, 2023:
Thank you, Dr. Fraterrigo. F&S supports the recommendations.
Regards,
Ehab
Read the iWG transmittal for Transportation 015 Fleet Replacement.
The following response was received from John Marquardt on October 16, 2023:
Good Afternoon,
Thank you for the recommendation to install permeable surfaces in the State Farm Center parking lots. I am pleased to report that State Farm Center has recently resurfaced two of its lots with permeable pavements, the SE Lot following the renovation of State Farm Center in 2016, and most recently the NE lot in 2021.
Project specifications from the most recent lot renovation list the following description and statistics about how this project (and the SE project in 2016) addressed permeability concerns of the lots:
“A total of approximately 12,500 square feet of permeable pavement was installed in the NE lot. As detailed on the plans, the pavement section will include a consistent 5” of porous asphalt on top of variable thickness permeable aggregate (varying from 8” to 24”). A single 12” underdrain will run the entire length of permeable pavement patch, and a controlled 6” outlet pipe will be connected to the existing and adjacent 36” storm sewer via a new manhole. While soil types in this area will only allow for very minimal infiltration, the drainage rock will provide enough inherent storage to detain the 1-year, 1-hour storm event. The available storage is approximately 7,000 CU FT and the storm runoff volume for this event is 6,775 CU FT. “
State Farm Center will be resurfacing the NW and SW parking lots in 2025 as part of planned and budgeted R&R operations. We fully anticipate that these projects will be completed with similar specifications to ensure that they are environmentally conscious with regard to permeability and other factors.
Thank you for your time and concern.
Read the iWG transmittal for LW005 SFC Permeable Pavers.
