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Illini Lights Out 5/2/2025
Associated Project(s):At our last Lights Out event of the semester, 2711 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $412.47 in energy costs. This also prevented 4.045 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 397 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a great impact and thank you all for a great semester!
2025 Arbor Day Celebration Summary
Associated Project(s):Please follow the document attached to read about the 2025 Arbor Day celebration, which was celebrated on the south quad.
Attached Files:Land and Water May Monthly Meeting Minutes and Notes
This month, the land and water team held their last meeting of the semester on May 2nd, from 9-10 am on a Teams call. At this meeting, the team discussed project updates for the end-of-year report and projects to look forward to in future semesters. The meeting minutes and notes are attached.
Attached Files:April 2025 Buyer's Share Report
Associated Project(s):RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the April 2025 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,377 Megawatt hours.
The April 2025 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
Attached Files:2025 EPA Rainworks Challenge Submission
Associated Project(s):Students from the Dept of Landscape Architecture, Dept of Civil Engineering, and faculty advisors have submitted to the 2025 EPA Rainworks Challenge.
Attached Files:March 2025 Prairie Photos
Associated Project(s):Additional photos of the Florida Orchard Prairie from March 2025 have been added to the box folder.
Illini Lights Out 4/18
Associated Project(s):At this past Illini Lights Out event, 2859 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $434.98 in energy costs. This also prevented 4.3 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 489 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a great impact!
Bicycle Census 2025: Event date and platform
Associated Project(s):Bicycle census 2025 is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, April 29, 2023 from 11 - 12 pm. We have worked with F&S FIR department to develop the survey collection platform using ArcGIS Field Maps. See the Bike Census 2025: Volunteer Instruction Guide for more information.
Bike Census 2025: Volunteer Instruction Guide
Associated Project(s):Please see attached.
Attached Files:Bike Census 2025: map blocks
Associated Project(s):Please see attached the map blocks for Bike Census 2023.
Attached Files:2025 Committee Charge Letter
Associated Project(s):Attached is the Tree Campus Advisory Committee Charge letter for 2025.
Attached Files:April 14th Meeting
Associated Project(s):We heard from Karina Jang about her research on air travel admissions, reviewed the data on the Transportation Survey, and talked about working for a SSC grant to install ebike chargers on campus. For a more detailed breakdown, the minutes are attached!
Attached Files:iCAP Portal Admin Meeting - April 11, 2025
Associated Project(s):Agenda
- Michael's updates
- Archived projects:
- Added link to Archived Projects on Projects page
- Hid archived projects from Theme page hierarchical listings
- Left archived projects in Project Family sidebar section, for now - may revisit that decision in the future
- Removed Project Status from hierarchical listing on theme pages and full project hierarchy listing
- Expand/Collapse buttons added to Project Updates listings. See examples:
- All Project Updates
- Project Updates search results
- Project Updates for collection: Monarch Butterfly projects
- Projects Updates for Sustainability iCAP Portal
- Projects Updates for key objective: 2.1 Energy Planning Document
- Projects Updates for theme: Education
- Projects Updates for place: Campus Instructional Facility
- SSC Project embed code is working on SSC site!
- Resolved an issue with some information connected to Projects (locations, funding info) and Metrics (targets, tracking) losing their connections to those projects.
- Information still in database, so I was able to restore connections
- It took some careful and tedious effort to track this down and restore the connections.
- Archived projects:
- Google Analytics numbers drop
- Steeper than others have experienced
- Probably some combination of less traffic and old analytics possibly not excluding bots/crawlers as effectively
- Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics (see notes from Sarthak & Michael's discussion)
Discussion
- Morgan went through full list of projects to find ones to archive
- Need to have a larger conversation about what archiving does at some point
- Morgan's intern Zach is doing a couple things:
- Filling in recent years of campus water data
- Looking for duplicate metrics
- Will mark duplicate metrics as duplicate, then work with Michael on deleting them
- Linking SSC Projects to iCAP Portal projects
- Quinn and Helen working on making sure all connections between SSC Projects and iCAP Portal projects are included
- What to do about SSC Projects without an existing iCAP Portal project?
- Quinn: 70-80% of SSC Projects have a direct or indirect connection to an iCAP Portal project; a few are really hard to find a connection
- Morgan: every SSC Project should be connected to an iCAP Portal project. Quinn will keep working on connections, then this summer we can figure out what to do about the outliers
- Would be helpful to add column sorting to SSC Projects table
- SSC Projects listing goes back to 2008; aren't there projects from earlier than 2008?
- That's all Helen had access to in SSC's master spreadsheet
- Didn't include cancelled projects
- Morgan will look for info about projects before 2008
- Sheri may also have info about those projects
- Some info about older SSC projects may be available in Project Updates (e.g. Projects Updates for Wind Turbine Generator(s) on South Farms)
- Recommendations:
- Morgan will have a student work on adding Recommendations
- Once they're complete, we should remove the manually maintained recommendation links in Projects
- Next step: show Recommendations & Recommendation Updates on Project pages; Michael will work on a draft version to share
- Going through project hierarchy: adding/updating information to descriptions for Header projects
- Google Analytics numbers drop
- Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics
TODOs
- ✅ SSC Projects:
- ✅ Add column click sorting to SSC Projects table
- ✅ Add ability to add/edit description to SSC Projects listing page
- Show Recommendations & Recommendation Updates on Project pages
- Investigate Google Analytics for April 3 - large spike in visits/users
- Investigate how to hide Project Status from certain projects which aren't actually projects - they're meant to act as parents for other projects (remaining from last meeting)
- e.g. add a "Header" Project Status which hides the status
- Michael's updates
EPA SmartWay - Earth Day
Associated Project(s):Check out SmartWay — a program that supports clean air, energy efficiency, and a stronger, more sustainable supply chain.
This Earth Day, and every day, look for the SmartWay logo on trucks moving goods the fuel-efficient way.
Attached Files:Bike for Earth day - April 22
Associated Project(s):Read this announcement online -
Join the celebration of Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22, by biking around campus, grabbing a free set of lights, or registering your bicycle!
As part of the university’s Earth Month events, the first-ever Bike for Earth Day will feature three welcoming centers open from 3 to 7 p.m. at:- Alma Mater Plaza
- Hallene Gateway (intersection of Illinois Street and Lincoln Avenue)
- Activities & Recreation Center (east side driveway)
🎉 Bike Light Giveaway included! 🎉
Check out the above link for more details
Attached Files:March 2025 Prairie Photos
Associated Project(s):March 2025 photos of the Florida Orchard Prairie have been added to the box folder.
Zipcar usage in March 2025
Associated Project(s):The attached PDF contains performance metrics for ZipCar usage on campus for March 2025.
Weekly Digest
Associated Project(s):On Thursday was another installment of our instructional class, which went well. Friday was our first Bike Center on the Quad event, which also went well. We also received our first end-of-semester/graduation donation.
We have a handful of bikes in the queue which we’ll finalize/safety check this week.
The numbers:
Visitors: 39
Sales: $327
Memberships: 6 for $180
Tires/tubes: 4 for $25Education iCAP Team April 2025 Meeting
Associated Project(s):The iCAP Education Team met on Monday, April 7th from 4-5 pm via Teams. First we shared information about the upcoming events during Earth Month. Then we discussed project updates that team members had including AASHE stars data collection, sustainability language in course descriptions, progress towards a sustainability Gen-Ed requirement, a sustainability literacy assessment and outgoing survey, iSEE partnered internship opportunities, and sustainability integration into study abroad. We also discussed student team member ideas like the possibility of composting on campus. The meeting minutes are attached.
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