Hello everyone!

We have one week left, it's time to kick into overdrive! Here are some reminders:

• Hosting short events like study hours are easy, require little set up, and allow you to inform a ton of residents about Eco-Olympics.
• There is a participation award this year. Even if your hall is doing so hot conserving energy, there is more than one way to win!
  • Post picture to our FB page, get people to sign up, hold events!
• SHIRTS! Shirts are a great way to advertise the competition at events. Let me know if you need yours!

Check out the results here: Right here!

Here is the current sign up standings:

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Let's make this year amazing! Attached our energy saving tips you can post around your hall. Just print them off and tape them up!

Cheers!

Jessica Mondello
Eco-Olympics | Director

Think Globally. Act Locally.

All, last week was feast or famine, visitors-wise. We had all-stands-full for most of Friday—even with the bad weather--and hardly a visitor in the first two hours on Wednesday. We didn’t do a lot of large sales and the numbers reflect that; most visitors were just tuning up their bikes with small consumables. Our visitor total for last week was 91.

We grossed $617.25 for the week. Sold six memberships for $180; 18 tires for $85; eight tubes for $36; and three locks for $69.

Last week—with Lily’s help--I was able to streamline the stolen bike reports that come in through bike@illinois so I can disseminate that info on to bike shops, advocacy orgs, and businesses and thereby increase the chances (in theory) of recovering the thieved property.

This week I will continue to build bikes, search for and field job applicants for the summer months and begin coordinating and organizing for next month’s Bike to Work Day and the May 10th Moonlight Bike Drive event.

Sincerely,

• Jake Benjamin
  Campus Bike Center Manager

On the agenda at the ECBS SWATeam meeting:

1) Final review of Illini Lights Out (ILO) recommendation;

2) Scott Willenbrock visiting April 14 meeting;

3) Updates:

- iCAP Portal.  Work of Morgan and Chenxi Jiang;

- Earth Hour photo;

- Eco-Olympics;

- Green Lab Coordinator

4) SWATeam next meeting time and date:  April 13th, from 3:30 to 5 pm. 

Ruby Woodside at Second Nature held a Resilience Working Group conference call on Feb 3, 2017.  The meeting notes are attached here.

Hello Eco-Olympic followers!

It's not too late to sign up! For those who have their team up and running, I highly encourage you all to meet before spring break begins. Once we get back, the competition is on! If you let me know the time and place, I can bring shirts to hand out.

Here is the count of participants signed up for each hall:

Remember that each person signed up gives your one point towards the participation price! Have some tabling events to get people interested!

Best,

Jessica Mondello
Eco-Olympics | Director

Think Globally. Act Locally.

All, Happy Monday! Last week was a steady busy one. We routinely had peaks of busyness and fallow valleys. We had 97 visitors through the doors, including staff. We grossed $951.50. We sold two bikes for $335; one build-a-bike for $61; and 4 memberships for $120.

Overall, last week I was met with a little more enthusiasm for the space than I regularly receive upon explaining the cost structure and mission of the CBC to new visitors. That was nice. Our for-sale bike count after last week sits at 14 for-sale bikes. I keep trying to grow that number up into the 20s but people keep buying them. That’s not a bad thing, I suppose.

Additionally, the two Departmental Share bikes need parts that are on-order so that project will be delayed, unfortunately.

Our numbers for B-a-Bs last year was quite low and as such I will begin photographing—with permission—all those who complete build-a-bikes and posting them on social media, which will serve two important functions: advertising for CBC and its most education-intensive program; and having a picture of owner and bicycle in the event of a stolen or lost bike.

This week I am going to cull a few more unbuiildable bikes from the pile and concentrate heavily on ramping up the for-sale numbers since this week of cold, snowy weather should keep the shoppers at bay. I will additionally focus on drop-bar bicycles, since I’ve noticed people requesting and looking for those more than the about-town cruisers and flat-bar bikes we have for sale, irrespective of how well-suited they are to campus riding.

Sincerely,

Jake Benjamin

Campus Bike Center Manager