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  1. updated recommendations

    Associated Project(s): 
    Agriculture, Land Use, Food, and Sequestration (ALUFS) SWATeam

    Good Morning, Bruce:

    Please see the attached 2014 iCAP emission chapter with notes from University Dining.

    In addition, we are confirming our purchasing volume for within 100 miles of campus.  Last year we were at 17%.

    Thank you,

    Dawn

    Dawn Aubrey, Ph.D., MBA, FMP, CEC, CCA
    Associate Director of Housing for Dining Services                                               

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  4. comments on draft from Keith Erickson

    Associated Project(s): 
    Water and Stormwater SWATeam

    This looks great

    My only comment would be to replace the cooling towers in the first slide with cooling towers from the UIUC Campus.

    I can send a picture tomorrow morning from my office.

    All the other pics on that slide appear to be from the UIUC campus which is good and adds credibility to the presentation.

    As I have said before I will be out Monday through Wednesday at a required meeting with the Illinois Commerce Commission.

    Please accept me best wishes for good luck and success on Wednesday

    Please email if you have any questions or issues

    Thanks

    Keith

  5. semi-final draft recommendations for iCAP Forum

    Associated Project(s): 
    Water and Stormwater SWATeam

    Hello All,

    I've attached the presentation for this Wednesday's event. Please let me know if there needs to be any changes.

    I've also included the most recent version of our iCAP recommendations. This draft includes revisions from Kishore and Keith. All are still welcome to make suggestions, but please do so soon (feel free to make them on the Google Doc. or a Word Doc. sent over email).

    Best regards,

    Amy Liu

    Attached Files: 

  7. syngas discussion

    Associated Project(s): 
    Energy Generation, Purchasing, & Distribution (eGen) SWATeam

    Hi Scott,

    I am not an expert on this, by any means, but I have heard from previous biomass investigations that the on campus facility would need a lot more acreage for biomass storage than currently feasible at the existing Abbott Power Plant site.

    Thanks,

    Morgan

    From: Willenbrock, Scott S
    Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 9:30 AM
    To: Johnston, Morgan B
    Subject: syngas

    Morgan,

         Thanks for sending the biomass document.   I haven’t had time to even look at it!    But let me ask you a question that has been running through my head:

    Here are two alternative ways to burn biomass:

    1.       Truck it to campus and burn it directly in a biomass facility.   The biomass is essentially replacing coal in this scheme.

    2.       Truck it to a location off campus, gasify it, pipe it through a new pipeline to campus, and burn it on campus.   In this scheme the biomass is essentially replacing natural gas.

    My question is this: what are the advantages of 2. compared to 1.?

                    Scott

  8. reusable cups idea

    Associated Project(s): 
    Zero Waste iCAP Team

    From: Johnston, Morgan B
    Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 4:38 PM
    To: Purchasing Waste and Recycling SWATeam; Guth, David Christian; Aubrey, Dawn
    Subject: reusable cups

    Hello Purchasing, Waste, and Recycling SWATeam, David (for the Union), and Dawn (for Dining Services),

    I would like to pass along this information about reusable cups that could replace single-use coffee cups around campus.  What do you think about this product?

    Thanks,

    Morgan

    From: Justin Hanseth
    Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 1:34 PM
    To: Johnston, Morgan B
    Subject: Pleasure meeting you at ACUPCC Summit

    Morgan,

    Great meeting you in Boston last week at the ACUPCC Climate Leadership Summit. 

    You asked for more information about SUSTAIN® and mentioned UIUC may be a good candidate for such a program to reduce waste and increase student engagement on campus.  See attached for more info.

    As a refresher, we make the Starbucks $1 Reusable Recyclable coffee cup sold in every Starbucks store, and I am interested in partnering with a forward-thinking university to pilot a SUSTAIN® campus program.  It sounded like UIUC is a leader in sustainability, so I perhaps it would have an interest in being one of the first campuses in the country to implement a program like ours. 

    Want to connect for a call in the next couple weeks to continue our conversation?  I would love to learn more about the great programs you have developed on campus. 

    My best,

    Justin Hanseth

    Justin Hanseth,  Business Development Lead - Sustain

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  10. draft recommendations

    Associated Project(s): 
    Agriculture, Land Use, Food, and Sequestration (ALUFS) SWATeam

    Hello Team!

    Attached is a very rough draft from our discussion on Tuesday.  We were small in number, but made some good progress.  We divided our reporting into three area – Agriculture and Land Use, Food Systems, and Sequestration.  Please look over and provide your comments as soon as possible.  One of us will be making a presentation on Wednesday so time is of the essence!

    Enjoy the remainder of your weekend.

    Best,

    Bruce

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  12. draft recommendations

    Associated Project(s): 
    Zero Waste iCAP Team

    Thanks for the excellent discussion on Monday about the first draft of the iCAP section on Purchasing, Waste and Recycling.  I tried to reflect the comments in the attached revised draft, provided in clean and marked versions. 

    Because Casey and I need to prepare a presentation for October 22 on our draft, please send me comments by Monday, October 20 at 9 am.

    Hope you are happy with our progress.  Thanks and best wishes. - Warren Lavey

    Attached Files: 

  13. consensus draft for 2015 iCAP

    Associated Project(s): 
    Transportation iCAP Team

    Dear Ben

    I am pleased to provide you with our consensus final report.

    I was able to address the concerns your raised regarding (1) clarifying the nature of purchased off-sets, and (2) making it clear that we are not necessarily requesting a new OFFICE be established for Sustainable Transportation, rather we would like to see a director of Sustainable Transportation appointed.

    Regarding the specification of revised targets.  Our committee had extended discussions on this topic and our position is stated in the report as follows;

    "Our committee recognizes that the 2015 goal of reducing carbon emissions by 30 percent relative to the 2008 baseline is unrealistic. Similar concerns can also be raised regarding the more distal targets.  It is the position of our committee that insufficient information is available to provide adjusted transportation emission targets at this point in time. Until such time as substantive decisions have been made regarding strategies to reduce carbon emissions and/or to allow the purchase of carbon offsets, it will be difficult to develop more specific data-based targets for transportation emissions."

    We understand that you would have preferred to have new and explicit targets set for intervening years between 2015 and 2050 but it is the position of our committee that there is insufficient data to develop such predictions.  If you or other committees want to take up this task, we would not object.

    Thank you for your help on this important and exciting project.

    On behalf of the entire committee,

    Sincerely

    Wojtek

    Attached Files: 

  14. draft recommendations

    Associated Project(s): 
    Water and Stormwater SWATeam

    The first draft of the SWAT iCAP revisions contains all the information that has been put into writing so far. Please see if you agree with the organization, content, and language of this document, though the latter has underwent very few changes. As far as content goes, I attempted to make the depth of information consistent throughout.

    I welcome any comments and additions; please share them by highlighting the target text and clicking insert>comment. This is just the easiest way to ensure that your contributions are easily tracked and accounted for.  - Amy Liu

  15. draft recommendations

    Associated Project(s): 
    Water and Stormwater SWATeam

    Dear all,

    Adding to Kishore's, attached are the text contributions (word conversion and pdf) for storm water, organized re heirarchy of Goals, Objectives, and Strategies set out in the 'Sustainable Transportation example template'. I hope these meet our team's writing objectives in content, quality, and tone. 

    Amy, please let me know if you have any issues/questions integrating them with the main body of text. Unfortunately, and I extend very sincere apologies - but I am required to attend thesis reviews tomorrow, and the student for whom I chair a committee presents exactly at noon!

    I will look forward to seeing/hearing or reading what comes of tomorrow's meeting. And will look forward to the iCAP forum.

    Thank you,

    Mary Pat

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  16. include Auxiliaries

    Associated Project(s): 
    Zero Waste iCAP Team

    Good morning, all.

    An issue that came up in my mind that I did not want to bring up yesterday for fears it would derail conversation/take up too much time: I think it is critical that the iCAP and its policies apply to the Auxiliaries on campus – Housing, Intercollegiate Athletics, Recreation, etc. If you think about the State Farm Center and Memorial Hall, and all of the housing and dining halls, they are a *significant* generator/handler of purchases and waste. Does/will the iCAP and its policies apply to them.

    And I think it is great that someone else (Morgan) suggested that our contracts with vendors include items that we want them to address in their bids and work with campus: recycling, use of sustainable/recyclable materials, reporting requirements, etc.

    Great conversation yesterday!

    Until next time,

    Marcus

  18. first draft recommendations

    Associated Project(s): 
    Water and Stormwater SWATeam

    Please find attached a write-up for the iCAP. As I just returned from a long trip, and punched this out in a hurry to meet tomorrows deadline, it may need to be extensively edited and modified. But these suggestions are basically what I have to offer.

    Should we espouse a larger vision – net zero? Without a timeline as an aspirational  goal

    N. Rajagopalan PhD

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  19. procurement webinar

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainable Electronics Campus Consortium [ARCHIVED]

    Hello Colleagues and Sustainable Electronics Enthusiasts. It’s been a while since we had a meeting, and in case you missed it, I wanted to point out a recent Sustainable Electronics Initiative blog post which may be of interest. Students from the Illinois Business Council’s Green Initiative have been recycling printer cartridges as a fundraiser. We had hoped to have them give a presentation for the consortium, but due to scheduling conflicts, they instead provided some information for our blog. See http://wp.istc.illinois.edu/sei/2014/09/26/ui-sustainable-electronics-campus-consortium-bc-green-initiative-recycles-printer-cartridges/. If you want to set up a similar cartridge recycling program in your office or unit, pay particular attention to the referral information in the post, so the BC Green Initiative can receive additional funding for the referral.

    Also, I want to encourage you to participate in a webinar next Tuesday, October 21, at 9:00 AM on “Sustainable Electronics for Purchasers.” You can register at https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/890717127. I’ll be presenting on topics such as purchase avoidance, reuse, repairing instead of replacing, supply chain issues (e.g. conflict minerals), and resources to help make more responsible choices. This webinar is a presentation for the IL Green Governments Coordinating Council Procurement Subcommittee, but is open to other interested parties. The presentation will be around 30 minutes long with time for questions after, so although we’ve set aside an hour, it will likely be more like 40-45 minutes long. I hope you can join us!

    Best wishes,

    Joy

    Joy Scrogum

    Emerging Technologies Resource Specialist

    Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC; www.istc.illinois.edu)

    Co-coordinator, Sustainable Electronics Initiative (SEI; www.sustainelectronics.illinois.edu)

    Great Lakes Regional Pollution Prevention Roundtable (GLRPPR; www.glrppr.org)

    ISTC is a Division of the Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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