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  1. Weekly Resiliency Team Meeting

    Present: Meredith Moore, Morgan White, and Stacy Gloss

    Gloss reported on the following:

    • Green Infrastructure Mapping: Lisa Merrifield met with Illinois EPA and partners at the end of March to discuss the mapping project. Meetings will be held with NCSA soon about feasibility and next steps.
    • Gloss notified Lisa Merrifield that she is available to help with Biodiversity Plan
    • DFA advising on-going. Their upcoming presentation is April 27 on E-waste in Siebel Center for Design
    • Final report from Ann Witmer's capstone course is expected: A student consulting team is developing a report on renewable energy technologies that can be adopted through a campus local-offset program
    • Gloss and Moore will present  to GEEB on April 26 on
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  2. Design for America - E-Waste Project Update

    Present: Staff - Stacy Gloss & Meredith Moore and Students - Koshal Raghavarapu, Anisha Narain, Ananya Barman, & Pooja Tetali

    The DFA student team provided a progress update on research about cell-phone e-waste. The student team has met with several recycling experts in the community and has focused on three areas - personal responsibility, importance of being able to repair products, and manufacturing responsibility for electronic waste. We will have one more planning meeting together and then the students will give their final presentation about the project on April 27. A poster with infographics may be developed.

  3. Design for America Meeting

    Meeting 10/29/2021

    Present:  Anisha, Ananya, Pooja and Stacy Gloss

    The project idea that the students would like to pursue is Making connections between pollution and people – focused on smart phones, tablets, computer e-waste generated by students. The student group may consider various technologies in their project: laptops, gaming consoles, wearable tech.

    They will research:

    • Material Sourcing  / ethical sourcing  (What are major parts/tech of smart phone and how they are produced? Conditions? Environmental Impact?)
    • Manufacturing / Ethical production
    • Transportation
    • Sales
    • Purchasing frequency/habits/thoughts: What do students think about environmental impact of technology when purchasing technology?
    • End-of-product-life (
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  4. Reviewing "Design For America" Project Page for the iCAP Portal

    Associated Project(s): 

    From: Maloto, Avery (FandS)
    Sent: Monday, August 30, 2021 11:28 AM
    To: uiuc@designforamerica.com
    Cc: White, Morgan
    Subject: [Action Requested] Reviewing DFA's Project Page for the UIUC iCAP Portal

    Hi UIUC Design for America!

    I hope you are all doing well. Each year, we ask several project contacts to review their information on the iCAP Portal to ensure that we are providing accurate and up-to-date information for the public. Our goal is to keep the iCAP Portal updated in real-time and we'd like your help reviewing some content at your earliest
    convenience.

    The following link is the iCAP Portal project page for UIUC Design for America. Morgan (CC'd to this email) created this project page using content from DFA's newsletter/website.

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