Attached is the Carbon Offset Planning and Buying Guide Step 1 and Step 2. The documents contain information on UIUC's offsetting goals and approach with Second Natures MOU with UIUC.

Hello Sarthak!

Our VC for administrative has asked me to compile examples of University-subsidized public transit for faculty and staff commuting. I’m familiar with UIUC’s free transit for students, faculty, and staff. I believe students pay a fee each semester, and transit is a free benefit for faculty and staff.

Is there a formal agreement in place between CUMTD and UIUC I can reference, or a budgeting policy? I’m specifically interested in any costs to UIUC and whether that expense funded entirely from the student fee or subsidized elsewhere in the budget.

This is somewhat time sensitive, let me know if you have time for a quick call this afternoon or Monday.

Best,

Matt Rundquist

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Hi Stacey,

For UIUC faculty and staff, there is a department that funds for the MTD bus pass, right? Could you please confirm? Thank you,
Sarthak

P10G96441 placed on ground floor, P10G96443 placed on second floor, P10G96442 placed on third floor.

UIUC's Yu-Feng Lin was featured on a "wired" article. Andrew Stumpf explains, "The authors did a simulation for a residential district in Chicago. They don’t provide much detail about the geology and hydrogeology that is the basis for the geotechnical model. In Chicago, aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) has yet to be used because groundwater is pretty scarce in the shallow subsurface and one would need to tap aquifers deeper in the bedrock. In the northern and western suburbs, the subsurface conditions in the glacial deposits is much better and I believe Kane County is looking into using the aquifers for a geothermal resource."

The article can be found at: https://www.wired.com/story/the-massive-batteries-hidden-beneath-your-fe...

UIUC newsletter: https://emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/32/64507332.html 

The referenced article is attached.

Presented an opportunity to beautify the south wall of the Waste Transfer Station. Karin Hodgin Jones, Sustainable Design Program Coordinator, will assist with coordinating students over the fall and summer to design a request for proposals (RFP) for student teams to submit designs.

Hi James,

I am working with facilities in your area to help them upgrade to LED lighting which reduces their overall costs and improves sustainability. Right now, there are very attractive incentives from the energy companies to retrofit lighting which improves the ROI on the project. In many cases, CES can do upgrades without any capital investment and still deliver significant monthly cost savings.

If you have not fully converted to LED lighting, could you let me know when works for you for me to come in and give you a free proposal? If you're not the correct contact within your organization, can you please point me in the right direction? If your facility is already all LED, please let me know as well.

Thank you,

MATT GAROFALO

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Jim Sims

See the attached flyer for various events held by the Land Conservation Foundation. 

From Joy Scrogum on April 11, 2023: ISTC transferred this project to the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning in January 2019. To my knowledge, CITL held maybe 1-2 repair events in 2019, but ended the project because they didn’t have adequate support to hire a student coordinator, and one of the staff members who took it on was promoted and had less time to attend to the project.

Hi Tony,

I met with folks from Housing yesterday about incorporating sustainability into RA training. Eric and Daphne were also on the call. We identified a few approaches for sharing content. I now need your help developing the materials.

One approach is to provide a short (3 min max) video for RAs to view, followed by questions to assess learning. As a framework, I suggest we use the sustainability guide that the interns developed with Meredith (attached). Do you have any video content that would be appropriate? The student training video is too long, but hits all the highlights. Is this something you could shorten? We need to send the video by mid/late June.

A second approach is to provide content for a microlearning session that would pair with the facilities session. They prefer a mixed mode approach, i.e., not just lecture/slides. We need to provide the content within the next two weeks. Is this doable? I shared the sustainability guide with them and am awaiting feedback.

A third approach is to distribute materials during the RA resource fair, which is held August 10th.

Finally, Housing is open to sharing information via their “Housing Insider” newsletter and digital platforms. It would be great to have your help developing content for those.  

Let me know what you think and we can also touch base at the management meeting today.

Thanks,

Jen