1 bin placed at Children's Research Center
P10G96446 C108 hallway by stairs.
P10G96446 C108 hallway by stairs.
P10G96445 on first floor near Pennsylvania Ave entrance.
RE: Campus Sustainability - Redwood Materials
Great – thank you all for your thoughts and connections. I’m moving Madhu and Bob to bcc and can loop them back in as needed.
Jennifer, Morgan and Daphne, can you please share your interest in joining a call along with your availability for the last 2 weeks in June? I’ll get a call scheduled with Seema so that we can explore a possible collaboration.
Best,
Amy
Amy Fruehling, MBA
Senior Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
1301 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801
217.265.4045
From: Fraterrigo, Jennifer M <jmf@illinois.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 12:06 PM
To: Schooley, Robert Lee <schooley@illinois.edu>; Khanna, Madhu <khanna1@illinois.edu>; Fruehling, Amy <afruehli@illinois.edu>
Cc: White, Morgan <mbwhite@illinois.edu>; Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Subject: RE: Campus Sustainability - Redwood Materials
Amy,
Bob is correct that campus no longer has a battery recycling program. I would be interested in following up about how we might restart the program. Colleagues in Facilities & Services, including Morgan White and Daphne Hulse, Zero Waste Coordinator, might also be interested in joining a call.
On a related note, the alum may be interested in an initiative to recycle components of EV batteries (among other types) for reuse in Europe that leverages a partnership between industry and academia.
Best,
Jen
Jennifer Fraterrigo (she/her)
iSEE Associate Director for Campus Sustainability and
Professor of Landscape and Ecosystem Ecology
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois
W-423 Turner Hall, 1102 S. Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
jmf@illinois.edu
ph 217-333-9428
https://fraterrigolab.nres.illinois.edu/
From: Schooley, Robert Lee <schooley@illinois.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 9:27 AM
To: Khanna, Madhu <khanna1@illinois.edu>; Fruehling, Amy <afruehli@illinois.edu>
Cc: Fraterrigo, Jennifer M <jmf@illinois.edu>; White, Morgan <mbwhite@illinois.edu>
Subject: RE: Campus Sustainability - Redwood Materials
Hi Amy,
Campus had a battery recycling program but it was discontinued in 2015 due to lack of funding. It is now left to units to fund recycling programs if they want.
https://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/project/battery-recycling
I also thought of Jen Fraterrigo for discussing potential partnerships on campus.
Thanks,
Bob
Robert L. Schooley
Professor and Head
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
W-503 Turner Hall | M/C 047
Urbana, IL 61801
217.244.2729 | schooley@illinois.edu
nres.illinois.edu
From: Khanna, Madhu <khanna1@illinois.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 5:24 PM
To: Fruehling, Amy <afruehli@illinois.edu>; Schooley, Robert Lee <schooley@illinois.edu>
Cc: Fraterrigo, Jennifer M <jmf@illinois.edu>; White, Morgan <mbwhite@illinois.edu>
Subject: RE: Campus Sustainability - Redwood Materials
Hi Amy
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. This sounds interesting. Would you know what kind of batteries she is interested in building a recycling program for?
I am ccing Jen Fraterrigo and Morgan White to let us know if we have any current program for this and get their thoughts on potential opportunities for battery recycling on our campus.
Best
Madhu
Madhu Khanna
Pronouns: she, her
Alvin H. Baum Family Chair & Director, Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment
ACES Distinguished Professor in Environmental Economics
Co-Director, Center for Economics of Sustainability
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Office: 1101 W. Peabody, Suite 336, M/C 635
Urbana IL 61801
email: khanna1@illinois.edu; phone: 217-333-5176; fax: 217-333-5538
http://ace.illinois.edu/directory/madhu-khanna
https://ceos.illinois.edu/bio-khanna
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LPH4gbUAAAAJ&hl=en
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/2173335176?pwd=Ri8rTzQ0S1RxZHpiY2tEWVdaSlhtZz09
From: Fruehling, Amy <afruehli@illinois.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 5:13 PM
To: Khanna, Madhu <khanna1@illinois.edu>; Schooley, Robert Lee <schooley@illinois.edu>
Subject: RE: Campus Sustainability - Redwood Materials
Madhu and Bob,
Checking in to bring this request to the top of your email again. I’d like to get back to our alum contact at Redwood Materials this week. Did you have any thoughts on her request below, or are there others you’d suggest that I reach out to?
Thanks!
Amy
From: Bollero, German A <gbollero@illinois.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2023 3:18 PM
To: Fruehling, Amy <afruehli@illinois.edu>
Subject: Re: Campus Sustainability - Redwood Materials
I will let Madhu and Bob to respond to this.
Thanks
GB
From: "Fruehling, Amy" <afruehli@illinois.edu>
Date: Monday, May 22, 2023 at 2:54 PM
To: German Bollero <gbollero@illinois.edu>, "Khanna, Madhu" <khanna1@illinois.edu>, "Schooley, Robert Lee" <schooley@illinois.edu>
Subject: Campus Sustainability - Redwood Materials
Hi Bob, German and Madhu,
Redwood Materials, founded by Tesla co-founder, JB Straubel, is a renewable energy company that focuses on making batteries sustainable and affordable by localizing the battery supply chain and producing components in the US from recycled batteries. A fantastic Gies alumni and former student that I worked with, reached out and is interested in creating a battery collection program at Illinois. She referenced the campus-wide recycling program with Coca Cola. While I think this could fit nicely into the Campus Sustainability program, I think that we could discuss possible research, project or funding collaborations that would enhance a program of this nature and support an academic partnership.
I am reaching out to you given your roles in the college and campus sustainability initiatives. Are there any programs within iSEE, NRES or that campus is working on that might align well? Are there others within your units that you recommend that I pose this question to? I’d like to have a follow up call with the alum, Seema Nilakhe, to share some options, and then can bring others into the conversation to hopefully begin talking about how to move forward.
Thank you for your thoughts,
Amy
Amy Fruehling, MBA
Sr. Director of Corporate Relations
217.265.4045
P10G96444 placed near Room 364.
P10G96441 placed on ground floor, P10G96443 placed on second floor, P10G96442 placed on third floor.
Hi Paul,
Should we set up a calendar time to talk via Teams about the ECIP plans? I’d think it would include Jen Fraterrigo, and maybe Rob?
Thanks,
Morgan
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Hi Morgan,
During Monday’s meeting we chose to follow your advice and go with the fall schedule.
We are again having conference schedule during this week and wonder if the sustainability week can be chosen on a week other than the week of Oct 16th – the 20th?
Best
Paul
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Hi Paul,
I think the date of the Campus Sustainability Celebration can move, as long as it is within October. I'll touch base with Jen about it and confirm.
Thanks,
Morgan
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Good morning,
I am fine with moving the Campus Sustainability Celebration to another week in October.
Thanks,
Jen
On March 27, 2023, it was recorded that 63 buildings across campus have at least one of the new 3-bins.
Hello Jen and Morgan,
I have attached a draft of the award letter to be sent to the deans and dept heads, and am reaching out to iSEE in regards to supporting this program.
I believe in the past ISEE co-presented these awards with F&S and more recently the awards were presented at the Sustainability Celebration which works well to promote more exposure for all sustainability items on campus.
Unfortunately, the BTAF Mechanical Engineering conference and I2SL conferences are during the same week so we were not available to join this past year.
We are now looking at 5 separate presentations at each location to present this years awards and wondering what support or involvement ISEE would be interested in?
Thank you
Paul Foote
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Hi Paul,
Jen and I spoke about this, and iSEE is interested in continuing to participate in the presentation of the ECIP awards. We would like to suggest that this be a single award presentation, rather than the five separate events. It can occur during Earth Month, and perhaps it could be held at the ACES Library, which is a nice venue and it was the ECIP winner with the highest energy savings.
Please let us know if this is an acceptable plan, and we can arrange a call to talk about the details.
Also, I asked Ehab about the Henry Admin Building leadership, and he suggests Paul Ellinger be the point of contact for the award letter.
Thanks,
Morgan
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Hello Everyone,
This is a terrific plan, Rob gave the go-ahead to plan the venue, date & time etc.
When works best for all?
Thank you
Paul
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Hello All,
I am bumping this to the top of the email list for scheduling the venue and timing for this event.
Let me know when we can discuss/finalize the details?
Best
Paul Foote
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Hi Paul,
Is there anything that you were anticipating including in this event agenda, other than the ECIP announcements and plaque distribution? If not, it might be better to include both years’ winners in the fall 2023 campus sustainability celebration.
I realize this is a shift from what we were thinking of, but it would be a shame to put together an event that is only 15 minutes long… It would also be difficult to get a broad audience.
Thanks,
Morgan
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Hi Morgan,
We were thinking this timeframe might fit better than the fall venue with multiple conferences etc…
Pending the date, we should have information regarding the next round of funding and were planning to gather the facilities managers at this event to share examples and promote future project applications.
Thoughts everyone?
Best
Paul
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Hi Morgan and all,
I crossed the revolving loan fund and ECIP, the ECIP awards can be discussed at our next monthly meeting.
Thank you
Paul Foote
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Hi Paul, What monthly meeting?
thanks, Morgan
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Hi Morgan,
UES has a monthly meeting for ECIP, RLF, rapid back and other funding items as needed.
Best
Paul
P10H08409 north of main hallway and P10H08410 south of main hallway.
P10E62230 placed in the basement, P10H08411 placed on second floor, and P10H08412 placed on third floor.
P10H08408 placed on first floor near room 180, P10H8407 placed on second floor near main stairs, and P10H8406 placed at the east stair main entry.
On Friday, February 17, the bin order from MAX-R arrived at the Waste Transfer Station. 20 26-gallon bins (standard size) and 8 18-gallon (slim) bins arrived.
P10G97104 between 206 and 204 in hallway.
The Undergraduate Library rehomed 6 3-bins at the onset of redevelopment:
The Bike Month Planning team organized Bike to Work Day on September 14, 2022 from 7 - 10 am at 16 Champaign County locations, including eight on-campus. There were 893 registered to attend before the event this year and nearly 150 people registered on-site during the event! Champaign County Bikes were also present at Alma Mater and Hallene Gateway during Light the Night event as well as Bike to Market Day on September 17, 2022, to meet attendees who could not attend the Bike to Work Day event. The final number of pre-registered attendees (prior to Bike to Market) was 921, which is a new record for this event!
Light the Night was organized on September 15, 2022, from 4 - 7 pm at three campus locations - Alma Mater, Hallene Gateway, and Campus Bike Center. This year, we used Planet Bike blinky lights with silicone straps. We distributed and installed nearly 800 bike light sets during this event! Alma Mater was, by far, the most popular location, where nearly 575 lights were distributed.
Following the event, the Bike Month Plannign team discussed options for next year.
Please see attached the agenda for the post event discussion for Bike to Work Day and Light the Night events on September 22, 2022.
All, Real busy times last week. Shop was manageably busy, but we had BTWD and LTN on consecutive days. Both events went well. I spent more time at the DRES stop than the Bike Center station, which was a new experience. Lots of folks on that route, and I was able to talk route-planning and commuting strategy with some people new to commuting. Weather cooperated swimmingly.
We had a deluge of completed B-a-Bs last week. Always good to see the smiling faces of rewarded effort. Marketing folks came by and updated some of our filing cabinets and bins with printed (legible) labels and photos of contents to better help people find and identify parts. We’re still slower on Tue/Thurs as we work to get the word out that we’re now open those days as well.
We’ll work this week on a couple shop builds we’ve been too busy to finish, prep for the abandoned bike giveaway, and clean shop as we’ve been too busy to do much of any of that in the last two weeks.
The numbers:
Visitors: 86
Sales: $1,084.30
Bikes (B-a-B): 3 for $150
Memberships: 17 for $510
Tires/tubes: 10 for $59
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator
Mark Herman from iSEE created a timelapse video showcasing the Alma Mater station during the Bike to Work Day event on September 14, 2022. This video gives a highlight of the event as well as promote Light the Night event on September 15, 2022.
Watch the video here: https://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/video/highlights-bike-work-day-...
Following email was sent to all BTWD station managers the day after the event on September 15, 2022.
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Hi Bike to Work Day station managers,
I hope you had a good BTWD yesterday! Here are the last 3 reminders/requests for you:
No Pictures Yet from these Stations:
Video Received & Posted from this Station:
Pictures Received & Posted from these Stations:
Thanks,
Gabe
Sarthak Prasad sent an email to Dave Guth to connect with Illini Union Board for help with Light the Night 2022 as well as Bike to Work Day and Light the Night events in 2023 going forward.
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Hi Dave,
As you may already know, we organized Bike to Work Day today from 7 – 10 am, with one of the locations being the Alma Mater station! I had several people signed up to volunteer and only a few of them showed up this morning. I am hoping that IUB could send some volunteers for Light the Night event (tomorrow from 4-7 pm), in case something like this happened again. Could you please let me know if IUB could help out tomorrow?
I would also like to ask IUB, if they could lead the Alma Mater welcoming station for Bike to Work Day and Light the Night events next year. Thank you,
Sarthak