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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.

Project Listing

Theme Project Status
Energy Solar Farm 1.0 Ongoing
Energy Solar Farm 2.0 Ongoing
Energy Geothermal at the Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) Completed
Land and Water Green Roof on Yeh Student Center NCEL addition Completed
Land and Water Native Plants at Arboretum Completed
Land and Water Sustainable Student Farm Ongoing
Land and Water Red Oak Rain Garden In Progress
Land and Water Bevier Café Herb Garden Ongoing
Transportation Campus Bike Center Ongoing

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Latest Updates

  • Weekly Update: Thanksgiving break, Kids bike donation

    11/29/2023

    All, Hope everyone had a good holiday break! Mine extended into Monday, so this is a day late.

  • Weekly Update: Kids bike giveaway, Cranksgiving

    11/14/2023

    All, Busy week on the sales floor as the weather warmed up and we sold a few bikes. Also, got a half dozen or so kids bikes repaired for the KBG event in December.

  • Weekly Update: Cranksgiving, Halloween last week

    11/6/2023

    All, Halloween was last week, and we are still awash in candy and Halloween-themed cellophane.

  • Weekly Update

    10/23/2023

    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.

  • Weekly Update: Abandoned bicycles, new staff

    10/2/2023

    All, Big news of last week is the abandoned bikes. Bike Project folk and I were able to take an inventory of the bikes that are available and given the number of bikes—fewest in my tenure!—we are not partnering with Working Bikes this year.

  • Unclaimed abandoned bicycles donated to the Campus Bike Center

    9/29/2023

    Following the deadline day to claim impounded bicycles, Sarthak Prasad reached out to Jake Benjamin, campus bike center coordinator, to inform that these bicycles are now considered donated to the Campus Bike Center and the Bike Project of Urbana-

  • Weekly Update: Busy times, Light the Night, abandoned bikes

    9/25/2023

    All, Pretty standard week. Busy with some wait time on stands/repairs most days. Had a Build-a-Bike completed—always a good thing. My team and I did Light the Night on Tuesday at the Ikenberry Quad area.

  • Weekly Update: Bike to Work Day, Light the Night

    9/18/2023

    All, I was out sick all last week with some combination of flu/cold/sinus infection. My staff handled operations in my absence. However, there were some issues tracking visit numbers, unfortunately.

  • Weekly Update: very busy week

    8/29/2023

    All, Another doozy of a week. Long wait times for stands, cash offers to “hold” bikes, and my favorite: “When will you get a new shipment of bikes?”

  • Weekly Update: Students are back, Illini Frenzy

    8/21/2023

    All, The semester has officially started! People are knocking on the doors at all hours, we’re almost out of sale bikes, the 529 registrations are a near constant, and there’s a wait for stand time by 3p every day.
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