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  1. e-week notice

    Associated Project(s): 
    iSEE Congress

    Campus Community Invited to iSEE Congress 2018: 'Sustainable Cities'

    Join iSEE for its fifth annual Congress, featuring open discussions about the cities of now and the future. Session topics include transportation (including a keynote on autonomous vehicles!), material flows, infrastructure, urban agriculture/food security, urbanization and the environment, sustainable development and more, featuring academic experts, industry leaders, and mayors. Classes welcome!

    Tony Mancuso . Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE)

  6. Weekly Update

    Associated Project(s): 
    Campus Bike Center

    All, busy times have arrived! We’ve mostly sold out of bikes (4 left), and been registering bikes like crazy. With a dearth of for sale bikes, we’ve got an uptick of B-a-Bs, for better or worse. The tail end of last week I officially suspended the First Visit Free option for the Campus Bike Center. Just too busy to accommodate freebies. I’ll reinstate FVF when it calms down, usually in October. I’ll add that info to the website today.

    Last week featured a lot of stern talking-tos with members about the concept of not being allowed to work on your bike without a stand. There’s a lot of pushback on it and I’ll attempt this week to emphasis the safety aspect and maybe that’ll help.

     

    Over the weekend were two outreach events: Quad Day and Illini Frenzy. Both were well-attending and well-received! I handed out a lot of registration forms and TBP hours pages.

    This week I’ll be interviewing for a potential new hire, building bikes, attending the Bike Project monthly meeting, and stripping the junk bikes we got donated last week to keep the shop as clean as I can during the busy times.

     

    The numbers:

    Visitors: 123

    Sales: $1,677.00

    Bikes (refurb): 6 for $960
    Memberships: 8 for $240
    Tires/tubes: 19 for $83

    Thanks!

    • Jake Benjamin
      Campus Bike Center Manager

  7. Weekly Update for Zero Waste

    Associated Project(s): 
    Achieve Zero Waste

    Hi Pete and Shawn—

    Last week’s zero waste activities were

    • Entering my weekly updates from the past year into the iCAP portal. I had been posting specific activities to specific projects, but the new entries will show a fuller (and more centralized) history of the past year’s discussions, efforts, and challenges.
    • A few emails with Morgan to try to set up a meeting regarding the glove recycling program.

    Best regards,
    Marya Ryan
    Zero Waste Coordinator

  11. Veoride is coming to town

    Associated Project(s): 
    Bike Share with Veo

    "URBANA — With agreements almost finalized, VeoRide is set to become the first dockless-bike-share service in Champaign-Urbana.

    Lily Wilcock, active transportation coordinator at the University of Illinois, said the Indiana-based company gave her serial numbers for 500 bicycles — the biggest fleet size allowed. The goal, she said, is to roll them out around the start of the semester...."

    http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2018-08-16/c-us-first-shareable-b...

  12. Join your neighbors getting solar PVs!

    Associated Project(s): 
    Solar Urbana-Champaign

    Champaign and Piatt County home and business owners installing solar energy have triggered the second 1% discount in the Solar Urbana-Champaign program! The program makes it faster, easier, and more affordable to go solar by leveraging the power of volume purchasing, and a community-education campaign.

    https://mailchi.mp/urbanaillinois/announcement-solar-urbana-champaign-30...

  17. Capacity of distribution lines

    Associated Project(s): 
    Solar Farm 2.0

    U19005: Electrical-Medium Voltage Power Distribution Study Updates - should start in mid-September - to evaluate capacity of power distribution line connected to proposed solar farm 2.0 site.

  18. Weekly Update

    All, this past week began to show the signs of student life. Shop got busy, we sold a bike-a-day (it felt like) and I think probably three or so B-a-Bs were started. It helped too that construction on Pennsylvania is finally completed—in fact, I got to witness sharrows were being striped and new “Share The Road” signs being installed. It was heartening!  Andy (Campus Rec IT) and Alana (Boss) came by on Wednesday to assess the IT/computer situation. More on that as it develops. Unfortunately, the very next day the Mac computer that we use for sign-in went on the fritz. It currently shuts down halfway through  booting up. Old pen and paper to the rescue! Not ideal but it gets the job done.

     

    This week I’ll aim for 5 new shop builds for the sales floor, rough draft a schedule for the student workers (potentially including some morning shifts), and continue to feed the dumpster. I polled the student staff on morning shifts and they’re interested; the extra help would be safer for me and getting new staff better acquainted with the shop and repairs when it’s not open hours will only help. This week I’ll also get a staff guide on opening/closing procedures written up to help formalize that process for the current and future newbie staff.

     

    The numbers:

    Visitors: 100
    Sales: $1,594.10

    Memberships: 8 for $240
    Bikes (refurb): 5 for $810
    Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $71

    Tires/tubes: 20 for $110

     

    Thanks!

    • Jake Benjamin
      Campus Bike Center Manager

  19. New Trailer Location Map Sent to Participating Departments - August 2018

    Associated Project(s): 
    Glove Recycling

    The glove recycling trailer was moved to a different location at the Physical Plant Services Building during the summer of 2018. Marya Ryan sent a map showing the new location to all departments participating in the glove recycling program on August 14, 2018. The information on the iCAP portal page was also updated to reflect the change.

  20. Information Distributed to Housing Paraprofessionals - August 2018

    Associated Project(s): 
    Achieve Zero Waste

    F&S staffed a table at iSEE on Aug. 13, 2018, as part of the Housing Paraprofessionals Amazing Resource Race. Teams of paraprofessionals from the residence halls visited various sites on campus to learn about resources available on campus. When they visited the table at iSEE, each of the 9 teams that came to the site received a blue desk side recycling bin with flyers explaining campus zero waste efforts and several iSEE programs. They heard a brief overview of recycling efforts and got their questions answered.

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