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While procurement laws still restrict the majority of campus purchasing contracts to ten years, there is a state of Illinois law that allows our campus to enter into Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) that are as long as 25 years. See http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=101-0193 for details.
Attached are the meeting minutes of the Zero Waste SWATeam meeting on 17 April 2020.
The agenda is as follows:
Review SP20 Recommendations
Review iCAP 2020 Draft Chapter
Discuss vending machine alternatives
Thank you to everyone who joined us live or watches later on the CCNet Facebook page! We enjoyed a great turnout for the Tree Campus USA Celebration, with about 35 people on the Zoom call and a reach of 365 on Facebook.
This event included a review of the five years that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been designated as a Tree Campus USA, by Brent Lewis. Senior in Integrative Biology student, Maddie Smith, presented the results of her diversity analysis for the campus' urban forest, and the F&S Tree Surgeons, Dustin Reifsteck and Sky Drewes, answered tree-related questions. At the end of the hour, community announcements included Arbor Day and Earth Month events coming up.
Celebrate National Arbor Day next week on April 24, 2020!
Links from announcements and presentation
The event concluded with a round of thanks, and several were captured in the chat log.
12:56:43 From Eliana Brown : Thank you to the Grounds Dept!
12:58:28 From Samantha Fisher : Thank you for this presentation! I really enjoy your monthly presentations.
13:00:02 From Stacy Gloss : Thanks CCNET for a great presentation today. Awesome collaborative effort. Everyone have a great day!
13:00:33 From ekamarah : Thank you everyone for these interesting presentations and conversations. Have a great day.
13:00:37 From Brent Lewis : Yes, thank you everyone!
13:00:49 From Eliana Brown : Thank you, everyone! Great job!
13:01:08 From pattsi : Stay well everyone
13:01:12 From Marya Ryan : Yes, great presentations! So glad to reconnect with CCNet after a few years away.
13:01:24 From Miranda Vieson : Thanks!
13:01:25 From Marcus Ricci : It was a great presentation, with all of the different presenters nicely tying in to the theme. The Q&A was cool.
13:01:26 From Jenna Kurtzweil : Thanks, everyone!!
13:01:26 From Kate Gardiner : Love CCNet, thanks Morgan!
F&S has used both GEM (8?) and e-Ride (2) electric service vehicles as well as 8 other small, gas powered Low Speed Vehicles (LSVs), 2 each from 4 different manufacturers totaling 8 LSVs. I’ve attached an email that has a link to a story posted on Cars.com about our use. While a variety of vehicles were used they were pretty much all gone in 5-8 years for many reasons including capability, reliability, parts supplies, vendors going out of business and personnel concerns. None in service currently.
From July 2008, by Pete Varney:
The University did in fact purchase 8 vehicles, we are calling them "mini-trucks." Chery is one of the OEMs. We purchased two each of Tiger, Mag Intl, Vantage and Cushman (no longer selling in the US). The desire is to test their effectiveness as a service vehicle on campus. We have a large fleet of service vehicles (250+) and the majority of them never travel more that a couple of miles each day and never exceed the campus speed limit, 25 mph.
This has been a long and at sometimes, difficult, project to get rolling, but now includes electric vehicles (E-ride) as well. All part of the University's goal of conserving energy and increasing sustainability.
https://www.cars.com/articles/chinese-part-of-mini-truck-mania-1420663272884/
GRITS is updated as of 6-30-2019 and the fund balance as of 6-30-2019 is $4,131,042.
SOLAR FARM LANDSCAPE BUFFER
F&S representatives shared detailed designs for the pollinator supportive landscape buffer along the future Solar Farm 2.0 site to the Village of Savoy. Village leaders were pleased with the design plans and thanked us for being responsive to their neighborly request. When completed, this site will serve as a demonstration for pollinator-friendly solar arrays, following the requirements of the Pollinator Friendly Solar Site Act (Illinois Pub. Act 100-1022). Solar Farm 2.0 will produce approximately 20,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) annually, and will generate the equivalent electricity use of more than 2,000 average American homes.
Attached are the meeting minutes from the Zero Waste SWATeam meeting on 27 March 2020.
The agenda is as follows:
March Formal Recommendations
April Agenda
Recommendations for next round of submissions?
Please see attached.
I-Pollinate is a citizen science research initiative, through the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, designed to collect state-wide pollinator data. I-Pollinate enlists citizen scientists to participate in three research projects and collect data on monarch egg and caterpillar abundance, pollinator visitation to ornamental flowers, and state bee demographics. If you are interested in participating and want more information, visit the website site at https://ipollinate.illinois.edu/.
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Staying consistent with the guidelines issued by the CDC and University of Illinois effective Friday, March 20, 2020 at 3PM the sort line will be closed at the University of Illinois Waste Transfer Station until further notice Enumerated below are the changes effective 3/20/2020:
Please note that there will be no change in waste and recycling collection schedules. Facilities and Services will continue to collect source separated trash and recycling from campus dumpster there will be no change in collection service. As there will be no material going to the sort line we do not anticipate an increase in material as most of campus is currently working remotely. Facilities and Services will be working with Area to monitor generation and evaluate if additional hauling service would be needed.
We thank you for your support and understanding during these unprecedented times. As always, if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to reach me or my team directly.
We are seeking individuals who are willing to participate in a short 30-minute conversation about sustainable and consumer lifestyles. Participants of all ages and backgrounds are welcome. If interested, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/LukTEJpRcY5Y8EY3A
Angel Han • In Affiliation with Cozad
Mr. Apfelbaum will tell us about his life-long project to restore his land on the border of Wisconsin, taking it back to its original state, before the changes brought about by farming, described in detail in his book Nature’s Second Chance. Having carried out ecological restorations world-wide, he is presently working in Urbana, restoring the Stone Creek golf course to its natural state.
March 12, 6:30 PM • Stone Creek Golf Club (Formerly known as Attie's), 2560 Stonecreek Blvd Urbana, IL
Amanda Christenson • Cooperative Extension Service
I am on the team that did the Retrocommissioning project in 2018 and I would be happy to share some of our knowledge from that process. Below is the link to a presentation of that project that we took to a Big Ten energy conference. Some of our main takeaways are that the combination of chilled beams, dual HX wheels, coil sizing, occupancy ventilation, and thoughtful building pressurization have led to one of the most efficient buildings on campus. Also, the heat pumps work well to heat/cool with electricity, but would be optimal if there were more of a reheat load, or a hot water loop to send reject heat to a neighboring building in summer, which campus is looking into in certain locations.
https://www.fs.illinois.edu/services/utilities-energy/energy-conservation/rcx-energy-results
Andy Robinson, LEED-AP, CEM
DDC Specialist, F&S Energy Services - RCx
Worked on Anaerobic Digestor presentation: added food waste energy potential and emissions, edited biogas use section, discussed structure, format and next steps. Also discussed contacts for additional information/ assistance.
An effective rain garden is planted with suitable trees, shrubs, flowers, and other plants that allow runoff to soak into the ground and protect water quality. Please join us for a presentation by Kaizad Irani on rain gardens from the landscape design perspective followed by a discussion. Bring your lunch and your questions. No question too big or too small. Come, learn and have fun.
January 27, 12–1:30 pm • U of I Extension Champaign Co., 801 Country Fair Dr., Champaign
Amanda Christenson • Cooperative Extension Service
Document Services offers durable printing materials, which can reduce landfill waste.
1. Waterproof small and large format paper. (Cheaper than lamination, and recyclable!)
2. Cloth – yes, they can print on a cloth. For something large that has to travel, can be folded, and is used multiple times.
The Facilities Standards for LEED certification are getting updated to reflect LEED V.4. and to include resources for specific LEED points.
Attached is the proposal, budget, and presentation for the upgrade of the Lot F-4 parking lot.
In 2019 F&S Executive Director Mohamed Attalla charged a Resilient Grounds Strategy Advisory Committee, to develop a Resilient Landscape Strategy for this campus. In December of that year, the Chancellor's Capital Review Committee (CCRC) approved the attached file, as the strategy for this campus moving toward a fully sustainable campus landscape. This effort is also reflective of a Senate Resolution from November 2018 (RS.19.03 Resolution for Campus Ssutainable Landscapes) and the Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP).
Discussed progress with biogas presentation, contacts for additional information for presentation, steps toward drafting a biogas recommendation (i.e. multi-SWATeam meeting), timeline for presentation and recommendation completion. Also discussed the potential for the iWG to put forward this recommendation as opposed to SWATeam(s).
