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--

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.

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.