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Dear iWG Members,
Attached is the complete "Version 2" of the 2015 iCAP, which I have just sent out to the SWATeams. I'd be grateful if you could look through the document and think about what, if any, big picture topics we should plan to discuss at our meeting next week...and then please drop me an email with your suggestions.
By the way, our first Sustainability Council meeting yesterday was a great success -- thanks in large part to all of your help in targeting the level of the presentation. I heard indirectly that the Chancellor and the VCR both thought the presentation was just at the right level of detail, and the entire group seemed to be engaged in the process.
Thanks again for all of your help,
Ben
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iCAP Working Group
Thursday, December 4, 2014
358 NSRC, 1:30-3:00 pm
November 2014 minutes attached.
Dear iWG Members,
We meet again this Thursday from 1:30-3:00, as usual in NSRC 358. Our lone agenda item will be going through the draft 2015 iCAP that Morgan, Stephanie, Nishant, and I (collectively known as the iCAP Drafting Committee) are assembling based on the SWATeam recommendations.
I expect to send you a complete draft sometime tonight. It's looking like it will be in the neighborhood of ~40 pages, and I hope you will be able to carve out some time to go through it carefully before Thursday afternoon. It's okay if you'd like to share it with some of the people in the group you represent on the iWG to get their input, but if you do so please emphasize that it is a very early draft. As a working draft, it should ideally not be widely circulated. It would be great if you could embed comments in the Word document and return it to me before our iWG meeting.
I will go over the draft at our meeting in the form of a PowerPoint presentation, analogous to how we envision doing so at the Sustainability Council meeting on December 8th. I think this will also be a good format for us to discuss any contentious points in the draft.
My plan is to incorporate your high-level comments from our meeting, together with your detailed comments in the Word document, into a revised draft that I will try to send to the SWATeams on Friday to get their feedback. We will then incorporate their feedback and try to get you a new draft on the 1st or 2nd, so we can discuss it again at our meeting on the 4th.
Thanks again for all your help, and I'll be sending you a draft sometime tonight!
Cheers,
Ben
Hi Ben,
Thanks for your letter from the iWG about the Utilities Master Plan (attached for reference).
F&S shares the iWG’s concerns with the slow pace of getting an acceptable draft product from AEI. This has taken much longer than the original goal of completion; however, it is important to have an accurate and good quality report even if it takes longer than planned. The scope of this study was developed in cooperation with the Office of Sustainability, and approved by FY12 Acting Director of the Office of Sustainability, Associate Chancellor Pradeep Khanna. It is attached here for your records, as well as the executed contract.
It has always been our intention to share the draft report with campus stakeholders, especially those participating in campus sustainability efforts. Once we get an acceptable product, we will share it with the SWATeam and iWG for feedback. At this time, we expect to have a draft ready to share later this month.
Thanks,
Morgan
Dear Al,
I am writing with another request (see attached) from the iCAP Working Group, but I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank you and Kent for arranging to have an iWG representative on the selection panel for the wind PPA RFP. I sincerely hope that our input will be helpful, and I look forward to working with that team!
Cheers,
Ben
Dear SWATeams,
The iCAP Drafting Committee is now in the process of synthesizing your chapters into a complete draft of the 2015 iCAP for review by the iCAP Working Group. Once the iWG has reviewed it, we will share it with all of you to get your feedback as well.
If you have any further edits to your draft chapters, please submit them by the end of the day on Thursday. Of course we would welcome additional comments after that deadline if your teams garner new insights, but those should be submitted as separate lists of bulleted comments rather than incorporated into your chapter (where they might get lost in our editing process).
Thanks for all of your hard work!
Cheers,
Ben
iCAP Working Group Thursday, October 30, 2014 358 NSRC, 1:30 - 3:00 pm
Drew O'Bryan replaced Nishant Makhijani on the iCAP Working Group, as the new head of the Student Sustainability Leadership Council.
Dear iCAP Working Group,
First of all, I'd like to invite each of you to join us for the iCAP Forum from 1-4 pm on October 22 (Campus Sustainability Day), where the SWATeams will present their recommendations for the 2015 iCAP. More details are appended below, along with a link to the RSVP form. I hope you can join us!
Second, I attach the minutes from our last meeting. I apologize for the delay in getting these to you, but iSEE has been swamped in the past few weeks as we hosted both a Congress on sustainable agriculture and a roundtable on sustainability education. Please let us know by October 15 if you have any corrections.
Finally, I wanted to let you know that Morgan recommended separating the wind PPA process issue from the utilities master plan issue. I took her advice, and sent the attached letter on the wind PPA process to Al Stratman today; I will follow up in ~10 days with a separate letter about the master plan.
Thanks again for your service on the working group!
Cheers,
Ben
Join us at iSEE’s iCAP Forum
What has the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus done to reach its Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) goals? Where have we fallen short? What’s next?
It’s time to update the iCAP, and we need input as we evaluate where we are — and where we want to be. The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) invites you to attend a iCAP Forum from 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 22 — Sustainability Day — in Illini Union Room 314B. The event is an opportunity for the Sustainability Working Advisory Teams (SWATeams) to seek public input on their proposed 2015 revisions to the 2010 iCAP, and for iSEE to recognize sustainability leaders on campus through the Certified Green Office Program and the Energy Conservation Incentive Program.
All faculty, staff, students and community members are invited to attend the forum and give valuable feedback to SWATeams. We need campuswide investment in the sustainability movement as we target ambitious goals here, including carbon neutrality by 2050. RSVP at http://bit.ly/1BIPn4K
Dear Al,
Attached please find a reply from the iCAP Working Group regarding the wind PPA process.
By the way, thanks so much for your participation in iSEE's Roundtable this week...sorry we didn't get a chance to chat!
Cheers,
Ben
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Professor Benjamin J. McCall
Associate Director for Campus Sustainability Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus-sustainability@illinois.edu
Attached here are the agenda and other relevant materials for the September 25, 2014 meeting of the iCAP Working Group.