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Student Sustainability Committee Funded Projects
The Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) has funded several projects over the years. This collection includes the proposed, in progress, completed, and/or ongoing projects that the SSC agreed to support.
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12/2/2025Email from Jacob Benjamin:Last week of November was slow, as best I can recall, and sales corroborate that. We’re working through the kids bikes we have and will hopefully get more donations in the coming weeks. We’ve got a half dozen regular...
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12/1/2025October 2025 photos of the Florida Orchard Prairie have been added to the box folder.
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11/22/2025The Land and Water Team met for its November monthly meeting on Friday, November 21, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM on Teams. This month, the team listened to a student conducting research on the usage of gray water systems in Illinois and other states and...
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11/17/2025Email from Jacob Benjamin:All,This past weekend was the Bike Project’s Cranksgiving event, which we helped promote. The event raised over $2,000 worth of food/supplies for Wesley Food Bank and the McKinley Pantry at Garden Hills.Elsewhere, I’ve got...
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11/11/2025Email 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...
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11/3/2025Email 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...
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10/28/2025Email 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...
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10/27/2025The 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...
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10/23/2025Email 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...
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10/7/2025September 2025 photos of the Florida Orchard Prairie have been added to the box folder.