The meeting covered updates on the Greener Campus (GC) initiative, including efforts to promote office certification and introduce decals for visibility. There was discussion on engaging Greek Life in sustainability efforts, with suggested contacts for outreach. The Sustainapalooza committee, represented by Kathrine Bruce and Liesl Schrag, provided an event overview and discussed promotional efforts such as digital signage, outreach to department heads, and MTD bus advertisements. Laurinda introduced a wildlife-centered gardening project under the Illinois Prairie Garden initiative, presenting engagement opportunities like prairie conservation and plant sales. Additional sustainability events were highlighted, including a short film event during Earth Week. Action items included Brigid coordinating scheduling and outreach, Quinn working on GC decals and office engagement, and all members providing feedback on marketing materials, brainstorming engagement strategies, and filling out a scheduling poll.

RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the November 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,520.5 Megawatt hours.

The November 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.

Last team meeting of the semester! We heard updates from the students conducting research and introduced them to the AASHE STARS system.

The Zero Waste Team met on December 9, 2024 at 1:30 PM. Attached are the meeting minutes.

On Friday, November 22nd, the iCAP Engagement Team held its monthly meeting. The team discussed ways to engage the campus community more, specifically students, and shared updates on OneIllinois, Greener Campus, and Earth Month. We discussed the possibility of using social media to increase engagement or physical fliers and posters. We also welcomed a guest speaker from the Zero Waste Team who discussed Sustain Illinois, a magazine that outlines what is currently happening around campus as well as how the average person can become involved in sustainability in the community. We also discussed having in-person meetings and events next semester for the team and small ways we can all be more sustainable. One call to action was for staff and faculty to consider making their office spaces green-certified and brainstorming ways to reach the Greek life population. Our next meeting will be December 20th. 

RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the October 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,182.4 Megawatt hours.

The October 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.

The Transportation Team had their November meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 12th, from 1:00 - 2:00pm. We discussed the student research projects and heard an update on the EV Charging survey from Denissa Darmawi. We ended by discussing the problem of motorized transit on the quads and what might be helpful to discourage it. The meeting minutes are attached!

Our next meeting is December 10th, 1:00 - 2:00PM.

Agenda

• [Michael] Updates:
  • Recommendations: added iWG Team
  • Project page: showing list of associated iCAP Teams only to logged in users
  • Recommendations search page:
    • Only showing links for Recommendations; made the rest plain text
    • Added column for latest Recommendation Update status
  • Trimmed down content in Project Updates listings so they're easier to scan:
    • Before: associated projects, full description, public & private files, notes, visibility
    • Now: associated projects, summary description, notes, visibility
    • Open to feedback!
  • Project page: "Add Project Update" and "Add new Metric" links on Project page now auto-fill the current Project!
  • Recommendation page: "Add Recommendation Update" on Recommendation page now auto-fills the current Recommendation!
• Continue discussion of new Recommendations process
• (Time permitting) Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics (see notes from Sarthak & Michael's discussion)

Discussion

• Project Updates listings: can descriptions expand/collapse instead of just truncating?
• New Recommendations process
  • Recommendations:
    • For description, enter summary of recommendation rather than iWG assessment
    • Add files column to Recommendation Updates table
    • Michael will investigate ways to show more of the story for each recommendation (incl. teasers w/expandable descriptions?)
    • Description field: "Original Recommendation" heading
    • Keep Recommendation Updates listing reverse chronological
    • Move Supplanted By box up to second position, right after iCAP Team
  • Recommendation Updates:
    • Use status at the time of the update rather than current status
    • For titles, use descriptive sentence rather than single word status
• Sheri: duplicate locations in iCAP Portal
  • Send list to Michael; he'll merge them
• SSC embed on ECE kiosks - will that become out of date with new SSC Projects approach?
  • We could potentially use the SSC embed, or a variation on it
  • Joyce Mast has retired; Catherine Somers is the current contact
• May want to add SSC and possibly Public Affairs recognition to footer
• Embeds: add card option for listings
• Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics

TODOs

• ✅ Update Add Project Update links on Project Header Layout projects
• ✅ Project Updates listings: can descriptions expand/collapse instead of just truncating?
• ✅ Recommendation pages:
  • ✅ Show most recent status prominently
  • ✅ Description field: "Original Recommendation" heading
  • ✅ Move Supplanted By box up to second position, right after iCAP Team
• ✅ Merge duplication locations
• ✅ Sort Recommendation Updates listing alphabetically (also look into adding sort options)
• Investigate ways to show more of the story for each recommendation (incl. teasers w/expandable descriptions?)
• Michael will reach out to Sheri to get SSC Projects embed working on SSC website
• ✅ Update SSC link on iCAP Portal homepage to go to SSC Projects page
• May want to add SSC and possibly Public Affairs recognition to footer
• Embeds: add card option for listings