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Weekly Update: Bike sales, Build-a-Bike
Associated Project(s):All, Hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend! We got a load of wheels/tires donated last week that we’ll be working to process this week. We’re up to 5 bikes for sale right now and should have a couple more done by the time we open tomorrow. Had one completed Build-a-Bike, which is always nice. Another person started their own B-a-B project and seems to be enjoying the process.
This week I’ll make a run to the Urbana Bike Project for some parts/supplies for various bike builds here and hopefully get a few more bikes on the sales floor.
The numbers:
Sales: $729.25
Bikes (refurb): 2 for $300
Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50Memberships: 3 for $90
Tires/tubes: 7 for $82Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center CoordinatorEnergy Source Options Final Design Report 5/6/22
Associated Project(s):The attached document is entitled Energy Source Options Final Design Report. Which is a report done for ME 470 Senior Design.
The report details research on the use of compressed CO2 as a refrigerant. The goal of the report was to determine if this system would be viable option for providing green energy on campus.
Attached Files:Weekly Update: Kids bike give away; Build-a-Bike
Associated Project(s):All, Last week we were able to fix up and give away 10 kids bikes to ISCU (Immigrant Services of Champaign-Urbana). Great to pass along valuable bikes to a valuable cause, and nice to clear some space in the Bike Center. We also virtually sold out of bikes, as we were down to a single for-sale bike on Wednesday. Fixed up 2 more for Friday but that’s likely not going to cut it, so we’ll move to finish a few more builds this week.
We had one person start on a Build-a-Bike on Friday. Hopefully should be done today or Wednesday.
Numbers:
Visitors: 31Sales: $1,289.80
Bikes (refurb): 4 for $$675Memberships: 7 or $210
Tire/tubes: 3 for $24Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center CoordinatorSSC Semesterly Report 6/27/22
Associated Project(s):Attached is the SSC Semesterly Report for the Transportation Building project dated 6/27/22
Attached Files:SSC Semesterly Report 2022
Associated Project(s):Please see attached the SSC Semesterly Report for Spring 2022.
Weekly Update: Closed for Juneteenth, Donations
Associated Project(s):All, Short week with the observed Juneteenth holiday on Friday. We’ve steadily been receiving donations but most of them are doomed for the scrap pile. But at least we’ll get some decent parts off them.
Got a few bikes in the queue that should make the sales floor by end of week.
The numbers:
Visitors: 22
Sales: $568.19
Bikes (refurb): 2 for $215
Memberships: 7 for $210Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center CoordinatorComposting Council review of institutions that compost
Associated Project(s):Click here to read the "Our Campus Composts" case review of institutions that compost, per the Composting Council in 2018-2019.
Water bottle reduction at the Union
Associated Project(s):Per J.B. Bailey, the Assistant Director for Programming, the Union includes marketing on all events that the Union has water filling stations near where the event is occurring and encouraging students to bring their own bottles to fill up there. The goal is that this will allow us to reduce the amount of disposable cups we provide at our events where drinks are provided. The board has also discussed not providing plastic water bottles as give-a-ways moving forward.
SSC Semesterly Report: Campus Contributions to Dump and Run
Associated Project(s):SSC received a semesterly report for Fall 2021 for the Campus Contributions to Dump and Run on 06/16/2022. Please see attached.
Meeting with Lisa Jackson re: new student swag
Associated Project(s):Meredith Moore and Jennifer Fraterrigo met with Dr. Lisa Jackson, Director of New Student Programs within Student Affairs to discuss new student swag. The goal is to promote sustainability and reduce plastic waste. The meeting notes are attached.
Attached Files:Meeting to Discuss Quote Revisions and Test Dates
Associated Project(s):On 6/15/2022, Morgan White, Sterling Laylock, Ali Khan, Maria Thompson, and Alec McKay met to discuss revisions to the quote for the HVAC and Air Quality Assessment tests, and to confirm a date to start testing, which is July 22, 2022.
SSC Extension Request for Dump and Run
Associated Project(s):An extension request was submitted for Dump and Run, an SSC-funded project. This request addressed a change in the project's scope, including ending a partnership with the University YMCA, potential rebranding, and new initiatives for UIUC-led collection programs.
See the scope change in the attached files.
Weekly Update: Donations, Closed on Friday for Juneteenth
Associated Project(s):All, We’re still working our way through our donations windfall. Open hours have been steadily busy, but it’ll be interesting to see how the extreme heat of the next couple weeks impacts visit numbers.
We are selling bikes about as fast as we can build them, especially since we’ve been too busy to build much during shop hours.
This week we will only be open Monday/Wednesday and closed Friday for Juneteenth (observed).
The numbers:
Visitors: 31
Sales: $915.30
Memberships: 2 for $60
Bikes: 3 for $595
Tires/tubes: 7 for $60Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center CoordinatorRequest to Use Learning Materials in Land & Water Theme
Associated Project(s):Below is sustainability intern, Alec McKay's permission request to use Jonathan Tomkin's lecture materials for the Land & Water theme. Professor Tomkin gave permission for his materials to be published on the theme page.
Hi Jonathan!
My name is Alec McKay, the guy who messed up scheduling the ENSU 310 final last semester, and I’m an intern working for Morgan White, the Associate Director for Sustainability. We’re working on updating the primary projects on the iCAP Portal. Here is an example of what the primary project page for the Land & Water theme looks like: https://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/project/responsible-stewardship-campus-land-and-water
Our target audience is incoming freshmen and current students who are interested in sustainability at UIUC but have little to no knowledge about it. One of the things we want a primary project page to do is provide some motivation and background information for the theme. In the context of Land & Water, we’d like to answer the question, “Why conserve water?”
I think some of the videos from your Introduction to Sustainability Coursera course would be great for this! May I have your permission to put some of the videos from your course on the iCAP Portal? I don’t know how the copyright and intellectual property laws work, so is there any specific way you would want or need to be credited?
If you want more information regarding what we’re changing on the iCAP portal, feel free to let me know!
Thanks!
Alec
Weekly Update: Bicycle Donations
Associated Project(s):All, We were closed Monday for Memorial Day and so were only open W/F last week.
Thanks to the generosity of a local bike shop, we were absolutely inundated with donations—something to the tune of 15-20 bikes. Then two community folks dropped off even more donations. Needless to say, I’ll be processing these all week.
I dropped off flyers with WRC last week, too, in the hopes of expanding our reach to folks that haven’t already come into CBC.
The numbers:
Visitors: 15
Sales: $557.95
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $180
Build-a-bike: 1 for $30Memberships: 4 for $120
Tires/tubes (new/used): 12 for $76Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center CoordinatorMap My Emissions link
Associated Project(s):"Transportation of all kinds accounts for nearly a quarter of global CO2 emissions(Opens in a new window). Commuters often have little choice about how they can get to work. But even if they make a concerted effort by using tools like Map My Emissions(Opens in a new window), which calculates how much CO2 commuting options generate, it’s hard to beat the zero emissions generated by walking from one room to another." per https://www.pcmag.com/news/remote-work-will-never-be-the-same-and-thats-...
Spring 2022: iSEE Quarterly Update (iQ)
Associated Project(s):The Spring 2022 iSEE Quarterly Update (iQ) was released with the following message from Madhu Khanna, the Interim Director of iSEE:
Greetings Colleagues,
Attached, please find the Spring 2022 edition of iQ, our quarterly update. You will see that in this six-page pdf recapping the recent semester, we had plenty of news and updates from our research, education, events, and campus sustainability fronts.
But the work did not end there! Since the semester ended, we have had two other exciting announcements:
- The U of I campus was rewarded with the only USDA NIFA “Farm of the Future” grant. Our I-FARM project will be an 80-acre testbed for merging technology, sensing, and agronomy into a farm setting with crops and livestock that will be productive and profitable. Read our June 1 news release >>>
- In addition, for the fifth consecutive time, our campus reached Gold-level status in the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) run by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). New solar and geothermal energy projects, a reduction in water use, and wide-ranging sustainability research helped us reach this level yet again. Read the May 25 news release >>>
For more up-to-date news from iSEE, please sign up for our E-newsletter at https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/5031776.
Best wishes for a healthy and productive summer,
Madhu
Attached Files:Weekly Update: Grabbing scraps; Safety Checking bikes
Associated Project(s):All, I was out most of last week and my staff ably handled running the shop in my absence. This week we’ll only be open W/F due to the Memorial Day holiday.
Thanks to Todd for grabbing scrap over the weekend as we were getting quite full on that. Still have a few more bikes to strip.
This week I am meeting with a prospective new hire, a U of I dad who is involved with a similar non-profit group in Boise, ID (of all places), and safety-checking a few bikes that’ll help us build our for-sale inventory back up.
The numbers:
Visitors: 21
Sales: $1,043.00
Bikes (refurb): 3 for $550
Memberships: 6 for $180
Tire/tubes (new/used): 10 for $77
Thanks!Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator2022 Freezer Challenge Newsletter
Associated Project(s):This link contains the 2022 Freezer Challenge Newsletter: