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Campus Sustainability Tour
This project collection highlights key campus sustainability projects, which represent a cross-section of the hundreds of projects on campus. Watch the Sustainability Tour 2022 here.
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Latest Updates
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9/30/2025Email from Jacob Benjamin:All,Last week was the conclusion of the bike retrieval period for abandoned bikes. We got three claims in the 11th hour, which was good. I’ll begin organizing the leftovers this week, with help from my staff...
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9/16/2025Email from Jacob Benjamin:Last Wednesday was Bike To Work Day! It was a success. Had good weather and good turn outs at the stations I visited.Light The Night is tomorrow evening. Should be good weather—if warm—for that, too! We are busy...
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9/9/2025The Tree Campus Advisory Committee met to review the overall program and committee membership. The new Campus Landscape Architect, Bridgette Moen, joined the committee. Team members discussed potential additions to the committee, including...
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9/2/2025Email from Jacob Benjamin:Busy as all get out. Sold all but one small bike for sale and moving Build-a-Bikes as fast as we can. Hope to have a few more prepped this week as demand for those is always high once we sell out of the refurbs.More...
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8/11/2025Not as busy as expecting but that gave us some time to fix up more bikes. We’re currently at capacity in the front lobby area and rearranged things in the back to accommodate some of the For Sale bikes back there.Got a count of the incoming...
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8/4/2025Things are picking up here and will likely only get busier as we are fully into August now. We’ve still got around 20 bikes available and a few more in the queue. B-a-Bs are similar numbers. We received some non-slip mats for under the repair stands...
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7/28/2025All,We’ve been working through some old stock of used parts that are too rusty/damaged to be worth keeping and scrapping them—mostly wheels and a few frames. Getting our stock of sale bikes up into the 20s, which is good but won’t be close to...
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7/21/2025All,Pretty slow week, except for the last hour on Friday—fittingly enough. We’re working through scrapping the remaining low-quality bikes that are only good for the occasional component here and there.We had staff in on Tue/Thurs to help ramp up...
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7/14/2025All,To my mind, a bit of a slow week. Sold some bikes and prepped more for B-a-B/sale bikes.This week I’ll be bringing staff in extra hours to help build more bikes for the inevitable Beginning Of Semester rush. We’re still hovering around 20 for...
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6/30/2025Pretty uneventful week on the whole. Highlight was an 11-year-old coming in with his mom to fix up his beat-up bike. At 11 he had great tool instincts and was excited about getting his hands dirty. Good times!Our “For Sale” bike numbers are steadily...