Please see attached correspondence from Chancellor Isbell.

Email from Jacob Benjamin:

All,

This past weekend was the Bike Project’s Cranksgiving event, which we helped promote. The event raised over $2,000 worth of food/supplies for Wesley Food Bank and the McKinley Pantry at Garden Hills.

Elsewhere, I’ve got most of the abandoned bikes separated in each of the containers but not yet fully organized. Will continue work on that this week.

Next up will be our Kids Bike Giveaway event. I’ll get a count of current inventory between here and the Bike Project in urbana this week, and begin refurbishing them.

This will be our last week being open M – F as we are closed for Fall Break and will be M/W/F after the break.

The numbers:

Visitors: 58
Sales: 490.25
Memberships: 6 for $180
Tires/tubes: 13 for $103

Thanks!

The iCAP Education Team met on November 7th from 12-1pm via Teams. The group discussed reviving the Levenick Teaching Fellows Program with updated incentives, planning the Green Career Forum for February 18–19, and reviewing findings from the Sustainability Literacy Assessment. They also noted progress on creating an automated database of sustainability-related courses. The meeting minutes are attached. 

The attached PDF contains performance metrics for Zipcar usage on campus for October 2025.

The Architecture Review Committee (ARC) has approved 24 off-rack locations for Veo bikes on campus. This will reduce the impact on the campus bike racks and it would allow for more space for personal bicycle users to lock their bicycles to those high traffic locations. 

The F&S Paint Shop will add green paint at these locations to denote Veo locations. The Work Order is issued: 11290535

Grounds for the Garden at Bookstore Starbucks

The Illini Union Bookstore Starbucks offers the Grounds for the Garden program. Faculty and staff can stop by the Starbucks at the Illini Union Bookstore and pick up FREE five-pound bags of used coffee grounds which you can use to add to your gardens and/or compost pile. Bags are available on a first-come, first-served basis and are placed outside of the Starbucks counter. Stop by any time and any day. If bags aren't available, just ask a barista. Details and why coffee grounds are good for your garden.

Email from Jacob Benjamin:

I was out Friday and Monday so this is a day late. I was in Berkeley, CA which has roundabouts at all of their side-street intersections. (Hint, hint.)

Pretty uneventful week otherwise. I’ll continue work on the containers and begin prep for our Kids Bike Giveaway event, which’ll be on 12/20. Look for flyers/advertisements for that next week.

The numbers:

Visitors: 106

Sales: $157.50
Memberships: 15 for $450
Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50
Tires/tubes: 12 for $101

Thanks!

At this Friday's Illini Lights Out event, 3454 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $525.51 in energy costs. This also prevented 4.7 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 462 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a great impact! 

The Land and Water team met for their monthly October meeting on Friday, October 24th, 2-3 PM. This month, the team discussed ongoing research around the usage of gray water in Illinois and other states' plumbing systems, the new map locating the milkweed planting locations, current and ongoing MOU requests, the status of the maintenance of the Florida Orchard Prairie, and green stormwater infrastructure controls on campus. Attached below are the agenda minutes, which show the details of what was discussed during the meeting. The meeting recording is available to watch in the meeting minutes.