On February 17th, the Land & Water iCAP team met to discuss the details of a permeable pavers recommendation. The team then split off into breakout rooms to organize future soil and water committee initiatives.
Meeting minutes are attached.
Emily Heaton has a grad student working on collecting existing soil records, analyzing them, and developing recommendations. yay!
Ayush Gupta shared the following message: there are walkathons happening across 60 cities for the Save Soil movement in the States in June. Check it out here and consider participating if you happen to find yourself in one of the cities.
Attached is a video by Dr. Rattan Lal Video about how soil can be addressed at a global scale, and a power point about the Save Soil Movement.
Attached is a recent article featuring local farmers working to improve soil health.
https://www.kcur.org/2022-04-29/most-farmers-are-climate-skeptics-but-it...
Recent article featuring local farmers working to improve soil health: https://www.kcur.org/2022-04-29/most-farmers-are-climate-skeptics-but-it-turns-out-improving-their-soil-also-fights-climate-change
SSC received semester report for Spring 2021 for Valorizing Archived Soild and Long Term Carbon Budgets project on 9/12/2021. Please see attached.
Assistant Director of Student Sustainability, Samuel Yoo reached out to Sarthak Prasad for guidance with iCAP Portal projects. Specifically, Yoo was unable to find existing projects for the following:
- Diversion of Non-Recyclable Plastic using Pyrolysis Process to Produce Fuels for Campus
- Preventing Window-strike Bird Fatalities with Energy Efficient Window Decals
- Valorized Archived Soils and Long-Term Carbon Budgets
Sarthak replied explaining that new project tabs will be created for the first two projects and the last project fits under the "Monitor Soil Health" project.
The SSC approved $9,500 in funding for this project at Illinois in Spring 2020. This project expires 5/14/2022.
