See attached an aerial image from the construction of KCPA, 8/3/1966. An example that showcases the university's leadership in bicycle friendliness in the 50's and 60's.

Staff collected and updated data for the month of January and February on 2/26/25.  

At this past Friday's Illinii Lights Out event, 3953 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $601.43 in energy costs. This also prevented 5.8 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 660 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a huge impact!

Following the Department of Pyschology's award of Monarch Level Green Office Certification, the department posted a news update to highlight their accomplishment! 

25 lbs of common milkweed seed was dispersed by F&S Grounds. The attached pdf shows a map of places where this seed was dispersed.

Dart Container at 1505 E. Main St., Urbana, accepts expanded polystyrene (EPS), more commonly known by its brand name Styrofoam, for recycling. Departments are encouraged to take EPS there to recycle this bulky material. By doing so, we can reduce the volume of waste sent from campus to landfills and avoid the harmful environmental impacts of that practice. There is no charge to drop off EPS at Dart for recycling.

There is currently no central funding source to pay for transportion of EPS to Dart, so departments need to arrange transport independently.

The drop-off location is in a fenced-in area of the Dart parking lot and may be accessed 24 hours a day. Dart accepts foam packaging (except for packaging peanuts), foam cups, foam egg cartons, foam meat trays, foam ice chests, and other foam products that fall within these guidelines:

• Make sure foam has the #6 chasing arrows symbol on it.
• Deposit foam in a clear or translucent bag (large bags are provided at the drop-off site).
• Rinse or wipe foodservice containers free from food.
• Remove straws, lids, tape or any other non-foam material.
• Do not include foam-packaging peanuts.

From fall 2015 until summer 2017, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) ran the Styrecycle program in partnership with Community Resource Inc. (CRI). Ownership of CRI changed in July 2017, and the new owner was not able to continue the program.

F&S, MTD, Urbana, and Champaign are planning to host an event in April 2025 (around Earth Day 04/22) to give away the remaining lights and t-shirts from Bike to Work Day and Light the Night. Additional details are still being discussed internally. 

• Bike to Work Day:
  
  • 1565 Bike Month t-shirts purchased
  • 1274 registered
  • 775 participated/checked in
  • 1132 t-shirts given out
  • Leftovers at CCRPC: 413 t-shirts (Adults) and 20 t-shirts (Youth)
    
    • Youth Small - 10
    • Youth Medium - 10
    • Small - 122
    • Medium - 179
    • Large - 77
    • Extra Large - 26
    • 2XL - 9
• Light the Night: 520 light sets leftover. - https://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/project-update/leftover-light-count. 

The iCAP Transportation Team had our first meeting of the spring semester on Monday, Feb. 10th.

There were a lot of exciting updates - the 2025 Campus Bike Plan has been published, student's research projects are progressing as they look into systems and infrastructures other universities have in place to encourage active and less environmentally impactful methods of transit, and we are working on finalizing the Campus Transportation Survey to send out in the next couple of weeks.

The Land and Water team had their monthly meeting on February 7th, 2025, on Teams at 9:00 am. This was the first meeting with the team's new interim chair, Jonathon Mosley. The meeting minutes and notes are attached.