On July 6, 2021, Morgan White, Meredith Moore, Sarthak Prasad, and Avery Maloto met to discuss the organization of the iCAP Portal. Topics discussed include: (1) Language, (2) Hierarchy of the Project Lists, and (3) General Organization.
The minutes from this meeting, as well as a log of tracked changes, are included in the attached file.
The Sustainability Council met on April 28, 2021 and discussed the following:
See PowerPoint attached.
We met today to talk about the integration of SSC projects in the iCAP Portal.
Hello iCAPpers,
Here is the new help text for the Metric Topic (when editing a Metric) which we changed in today’s meeting:
Metric Topic should be a terse noun indicating the metric being measured <em>(CO2, Bicycles, etc.)</em>.
<br />It will be used as the title of the y-axis in the metric's graph. Please capitalize the first letter.
<br />If you start typing, autocomplete will try to find a matching term used by other metrics. If no matches are found, your term will be added.
For posterity, here is the previous Metric Topic help text:
Metric Topic should be a terse noun indicating the metric being measured <em>(CO2, # bike paths, etc.)</em> as it would be used mid-sentence.
<br />If you start typing, autocomplete will try to find a matching term used by other metrics. If no matches are found, your term will be added to the Metric Topics vocabulary.
<br />The following is a sample of how a Metric Topic could be used:
<br /><em>"Increase/Decrease/Maintain ________ by x% by 2015 from 2008 baseline.</em>
--Michael--
On July 1, 2020, iSEE and MSTE made a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU.) This mutual written agreement declared that MSTE will continue to provide technical support and implementation of proposed innovations to further assist iCAP Portal team members.
The individuals who signed this agreement were Dr. George Reese (Director of MSTE), Dr. Evan DeLucia (Director of iSEE), and Dr. Mohamed Attalla (Executive Director of F&S.)
See the attached files to view the signed MOUs.
Evan De Lucia and Mohamed Attalla approved $50,000 of funding from the Carbon Credit Sales Fund for iCAP Portal maintenance and improvements for FY20 to FY23.
"This will allow us to continue improvements to the iCAP Portal and continue to enhance the usability
and impact of this well-used resource." -Morgan White (06/01/2020)
The email of funding approval is attached below.
The Memorandum of Understanding between iSEE, F&S, and MSTE is attached below.
Meredith Moore provided training for the new SWATeam clerks. We discussed agenda setting, scheduling, and the iCAP Portal.
Sustainability is: Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
The Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) outlines a path for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible, and no later than 2050. The campus committed to this ambitious goal when in 2008 it signed the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) — later to be renamed the Second Nature Carbon Commitment for its emphasis on emissions.
In 2016, Illinois took on an even greater leadership role when Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson signed its sister pledge, the Second Nature Resilience Commitment, which charges campus to examine the vulnerabilities of its landscapes and infrastructure in the face of an already changed climate. Together, these two commitments form Second Nature’s comprehensive Climate Commitment. As a charter signatory of the Climate Commitment, Illinois continues its dedication to being on the forefront of sustainable future planning.
This site is a repository for summary information about each iCAP project, both to share the information publicly and to assist in collecting information for reporting purposes. These projects are organized into ten themes: Education, Energy, Funding, Land & Space, Outreach, Procurement & Waste, Reporting Progress, Research, Transportation, and Water.
The Objectives page is a dashboard of 2015 iCAP metrics. Each Project page provides details and background information. The Map page can be filtered by associated theme. If you would like to recommend a new project or are aware of an existing project that is not listed on this site, please use the “Suggestions” tab to let us know.
Read the approved 2015 Illinois Climate Action Plan.
Evan De Lucia and Mohamad Attalla approved $15,000 of funding from the Carbon Credit Sales Fund for MSTE (Office of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education) to make improvements and new coding designs to the iCAP Portal.
An email of approval is attached below.
A presentation on Climate Leadership Commitments and the iCAP by Morgan White, presented on October 11, 2017.
On December 1, 2017, iSEE and MSTE made a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish a formal structural payment in expectation of a return of services. The services provided by MSTE include the creation of new features on the iCAP Portal, technological troubleshooting, and maintenance.
See the attached file to view the official Memorandum of Understanding.
CEE students Chenxi Jiang and Shuang Chen are working with Morgan Johnston to edit the iCAP Portal project pages for each iCAP objective. Chapters 8-12 do not have SWATeams, and the background research on these chapters has been completed. The edited project pages are scheduled to be online by the end of March. The next step is editing the iCAP objectives for each SWATeam chapter in the iCAP. Chenxi and Shaung will be meeting with SWATeam representatives over the next few weeks to gather information, and then the project pages will be edited to reflect the latest info. We expect to be able to complete this before Earth Day on April 22, 2017.
The EGEN SWATeam held another bi-weekly meeting. Topics covered include:
Morgan Johnston, Catherine Yee, and Chenxi Jiang met today to discuss the outreach information listed on the iCAP Portal. Catherine described the Student Sustainability Leadership Council (SSLC) and the Certified Green Office Program (CGOP). We also discussed the Earth Week efforts and the overall purpose of the SSLC as a networking opportunity for students in sustainability groups.
The complete iCAP Portal project list was recorded on February 13, 2017. In this list, each project was organized in the proper theme and linked to its respective page.
See the attached file to view the list.
Olivia Webb and Morgan Johnston met with Meghan Killinger and Stephanie Cash to provide an introduction to the SWATeam clerk responsibilities.
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Sarthak Prasad completed his independent study with Dr. Rizwan Uddin in fall 2016. Please see attached the final report from this study.
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