This Week in Research
Ming Kuo recently contributed to an NPR piece that explored the benefits of spending time in nature, noting that getting your daily dose of nature is vital to your well-being.
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Ming Kuo recently contributed to an NPR piece that explored the benefits of spending time in nature, noting that getting your daily dose of nature is vital to your well-being.
F&S TDM sent out reminders in e-week, GradLinks, Email+ to UG students, and others in the last week of April.
Attached is an article that details the development of Performance Cost Index Targets.
Below are comments made by Tom Keller on the article:
Comments:
These iSEE representatives presented an update of key efforts underway for the iCAP 2020: iSEE Associate Director for Campus Sustainability Dr. Jennifer Fraterrigo, iSEE Associate director for Education and outreach Dr. Luis Rodriguez, Sustainability Programs Manager Meredith Moore, F&S Associate Director for Sustainability Morgan White, and Sustainability Academic Advisor Eric Green. the key topics were:
The following links were also sent to be shared with the committee:
Also, if anyone is interested in participating in one of the Topical iCAP Teams, as a faculty member, please let us know. The topics are listed on the iCAP Portal at https://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/project/topical-icap-teams.
Below is an email sent by Dr. Edwin Herricks to Morgan White regarding a research site to study stormwater mitigation designs.
Morgan,
You may not know, but some time ago I led a project to create a research site on the parking lot across from the residence halls to study parking lot stormwater mitigation designs. Of importance we installed a weir for a gauging capability for the lot discharge. Unfortunately, the U did not proceed with the lot improvements so the weir simply sits.
Art Schmidt is aware of this and over the years I have encouraged him to take advantage of the infrastructure.
Hopefully if you know about this capability you may find some use for it.
Ed
Please see attached the final presentation for the CTAC spring 2022. We also talked about abandoned bicycles and Campus Landscape Master Plan during this meeting. Also watch the meeting recording and read the chat from during the meeting: https://uofi.box.com/s/lv1xbqlcevdp6f2dfmiep2fpx3cq2zde
"Earth Week is a great opportunity for us to reflect on what the extended ECE family has done and can continue to do to make Earth a better place for all living beings." - Illinois ECE
Illinois ECE has gathered a sampling of the contributions their faculty, staff, and students have made to environmental sustainability.
The sampling can be seen here: https://ece.illinois.edu/newsroom/earth-week
From: Varney, Peter W
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 12:38 PM
To: FandS Executive Management Team ; Gordon, Malikah Asrayyah ; Breitwieser, Steven
Cc: Patterson, Shawn L ; Franzen, Neil
Subject: Ford Lightnings for F&S
As mentioned this morning, I have been able to secure two of the brand new 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning for F&S. These are all-electric crew cab pickup trucks with a ~200 mile range. The vehicles are equipped with a 9.6kW power system including multiple 120V and a single 240V outlet. Cargo payload is only about 1,600# or 2/3 of a standard F-150.
These vehicles should allow for my team to gain familiarity with all-electric vehicles in our fleet as well as campus visibility regarding F&S’ commitment to sustainable fleet technology. I believe one of the vehicles would be a good fit in my Transportation Shop but I’m open to suggestions for the second truck. ETA will be in the June/July timeframe.
Malikah – I want your team to be aware for any story/messaging opportunities. I also think we can use some special signage or wrap on the vehicle exterior.
Pete W Varney
DIRECTOR
Transportation & Building Services
Facilities & Services
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A file containing information regarding the 2022 Campus Wide Space Survey is attached below.
F&S TDM used several newsletters, departmental contacts, word of mouth, as well as digital signage to promote the Mode Choice Survey. Please see attached the Publicity methods used for this project.
The Mode Choice Survey was published and began collecting data on March 26, 2022. It was edited to rectify a glitch in the survey on March 27.
See attached the final draft of the mode choice survey.
From: Shanmugam Narayan, Vinothni
To: White, Morgan
Recipients: mbwhite at illinois.edu
Hello Morgan,
I have shared the NCEL & HSL plans, newsletter, and Earth month schedule with my team. Thank you so much for sharing those.
I have also attached a link for case study videos that my concept team students created for one of the activities I planned last semester.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KRaWCbD2WYsWEA9bR0JUx9a_ELMov0v9?usp=sharing
Thanks for initiating to include their work on the website. Have a nice day!
Sincerely,
Graduate – Masters | Class of Dec 2022
Civil and Environmental Engineering | Construction Engineering and Management
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
vs37@illinois.edu | +1 (217)-200-2817
Attached is the 03/23/2022 iSEE newsletter.
Attached is the SEDAC newsletter for March.
Since iNews Newsletter does not allow surveys, F&S TDM had to get permission from DMI and Student Affairs to reach out to a large populations of Undergraduate students.
Sarthak Prasad requested Division of Management Information (DMI) a sample of randomly selected Undergraduate students for the Mode Choice Survey in last week of February. DMI asked to complete the Student Affairs Research Approval (SARA) application to sample 5,000 UG students. Sarthak Prasad filled out the SARA request on March 1, 2022. Dr. Beth Hoag approved the SARA request to sample 5,000 UG students and forwarded it to the DMI contacts.
Ting Lu from DMI created 2 identical groups of randomly selected 5,000 UG student emails and shared them with Sarthak Prasad on 3/18/22 via Webtools. Each group could only be used once.
There was a $16/hour cost to create a sample - overall cost was $64.
SSC received semesterly report for Fall 2022 for South Farm Nitrate Monitoring Station project on 03/02/2022.
SSC received semesterly report for Fall 2021 for InSPIRE Solar Charging Stations project on 12/26/2021. Please see attached.
Champaign County provided this information about recycling programs in town
For Homeowners:
Citizens Utility Board (Community Solar) - https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/solar-in-the-community/
EnergySage - https://www.energysage.com/
Google Sunroof - https://sunroof.withgoogle.com/
IL Solar Energy Association (IL Solar Ambassadors and vendor lists) - https://www.illinoissolar.org/
For specialized organizations:
Midwest Renewable Energy Association - https://www.midwestrenew.org/
Clean Energy Buyers Association - https://cebuyers.org/
Elevate - https://www.elevatenp.org/
Government:
City of Chicago - https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/progs/env/solar_in_chicago.html
Cook County - https://www.cookcountyil.gov/service/solar-energy
Illinois Solar for All (Community Solar) - https://www.illinoissfa.com/
Illinois Shines - https://illinoisshines.com/
EPA (Solar Resources) - https://www.epa.gov/statelocalenergy/local-renewable-energy-solar