UIC has a Level 3 charging station in a parking garage on the east campus.

All, This update is a day late as I was out of the office on Monday.
Last week I was out on Thursday and Friday as well. Student staff covered Bike Center hours in my absence. On Monday last week we received a bike from Housing which we were able to quickly fix up and put out for sale.  
This week we have a couple drop off repairs to catch up on, a few more bikes to fix up for sale, and some donations to process.

The numbers:

Visitors: 26
Sales: $1,167

Memberships: 6 for $180
Bikes (refurb): 3 for $500
U-locks: 5 for $105

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator

Please see attached the final bicycle registration sign design in JPEG and PDF formats. We have received approvals from Housing to put up these signs in the major high traffic bicycle parking locations, mainly in the SDRP, LAR, FAR/PAR, and Busey Evans bicycle parking areas. We are also looking at Illini Union and ARC for these signs in this cycle, but dependent on funding.

Sarthak Prasad has submitted a work order to fabricate and install the bike registration signs at these locations (as mentioned in previous project updates). The Work Order number is 10885468.

Dump and Run is BACK! After a 1-year hiatus, the University YMCA is thrilled to once again hold community collections and the Big Sale this August. All collections and the sale will be held at the U of I Stock Pavilion, in cooperation with the College of ACES and Dept. of Animal Sciences.

Dump and Run keeps over 30 tons of used, quality goods out of Champaign-Urbana’s dumpsters and landfills each year. This project reduces litter and consumer waste, saves space in landfills, lowers dumping costs for certified housing and apartments and provides inexpensive items for folks to purchase in the fall.

While we were unable to hold our normal spring collections this past May, we look forward to collecting as many great items as we can from our community and hope that you will join us in helping find usable goods a new home. Thanks to the community and the University of Illinois for making Dump & Run a success each year, and we will see you this August!

(From the YMCA Dump and Run website) More information here

August 2021 Collection Days:

All collections will be held at the UI Stock Pavilion, located at 1402 W. Pennsylvania Ave, Urbana IL, beginning on Monday, August 2.

Monday Aug. 2: noon - 4:00pm

Tuesday Aug. 3 - Friday Aug. 6: 9:00am - 4:00pm. Late collection on Wednesday Aug. 4 until 7:00pm

Saturday, Aug. 7: 10:00am - 2:00pm

Monday Aug. 9 - Friday August 13: 9:00am - 4:00pm. Late collection on Wednesday Aug. 11 until 7:00pm

Saturday, Aug. 14: 10:00am - 2:00pm

FINAL collection day, Monday Aug. 16: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Check out the YMCA Dump and Run website for more information. 

Ehab Kamarah, interim Executive Director of F&S, responded to Morgan White and Sherry Wooten with the following message:

"The plan is signed and is being sent back to the County. My apology for the late response."

See transmittal of Res001 Champaign County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan here.

See iWG assessment of Res001 Champaign County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan here.
See recommendation and submittal of Res001 Champaign County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan here. 

For future updates on this effort, visit Champaign County Hazard Mitigation Plan.

Please see attached. This report was developed by Avery Maloto for the Commuter Program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Sarthak Prasad worked with Rachel Hull in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement to create a campaign story on With Illinois to request donations towards the Campus Bicycle Plan Implementation and Mission Fund. This is a community funding campaign and Sarthak will be promoting it to the Bike at Illinois social media and community partners. The current goal is to raise $500 before September 14, 2021.

Read how you can "Help Bike at Illinois improve your bicycle experience on campus!" Please share this campaign story and make a donation ($1 minimum) to help us achieve this goal.

On August 2, 2021, SSC approved the scope change for the Bike and Ped Counters project as requested on July 21, 2021. Sarthak Prasad will make a purchase request to procure a new set of Eco-Counter bicycle and pedestrian counters.

See the project update for Scope Change requested: Bike and Ped Counters.

All, Busy week! Sold bikes, stripped bikes, helped people fix bikes. We had especially good volunteer turnout on Friday. One frequent visitor even donated his neighbor’s old bike that was headed for the dumpster before he intercepted. Another person said they’ll be here to volunteer on Monday.

Donations, thankfully, have hit a little bit of a lull, so we’ll be able to spend this week catching up on that. On Friday alone—see aforementioned volunteer levels—we started 4 new shop builds that will be finished this week.

We also sold a bike to someone from Housing who works specifically in promoting healthy and environmental lifestyles in the dorms. He seemed really jazzed about our programming and operations. Hopefully that’ll be a future partnership.

The numbers:

Visitors: 28
Sales: $1,307.10
Memberships: 2 for $60
Bikes (refurb): 6 for $1,040
Tires/tubes: 5 for $26
U locks: 3 for $63

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator

Paul Foote, F&S Energy Efficiency and Conservation Specialist, led a thought-provoking discussion on 7-27-21 about the many uses of energy – even the hidden ones! – in our daily lives, how we can become more energy-conscious, and actions that we can all take to reduce consumption. Attached is the presentation and here a few resources additional resources that were discussed during the event:

• TED Talk, “The four things that you need to know about the energy you use”: https://www.ted.com/talks/jordan_wirfs_brock_the_four_things_you_need_to_know_about_the_energy_you_use?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
• iCAP Portal: https://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/
• Solar Farm 2.0: https://fs.illinois.edu/resources/newsroom/2021/05/13/final-stage-of-ultra-sustainable-solar-farm-2.0-project
• Geothermal Campus Instructional Facility: https://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/project/geothermal-campus-instructional-facility-cif
• Eco-Olympics: https://ecoolympics.wixsite.com/eco-olympics
• Freezer Challenge: https://freezerchallengeui.wixsite.com/freezerchallenge
• Additional interesting energy-situTED Talk for you to check out: https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_laskey_how_behavioral_science_can_lower_your_energy_bill?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Be sure to sign up for the iSEE newsletter to stay up-to-date on other campus and community sustainability opportunities, including our future TED Talk discussions. Topics and hosts vary each month! Please reach out if you have any questions. Thank you again and have a great week!

Please see attached the ridership information for July 2021.

The iCAP Working Group met on 7-22-21. Attached are the meeting minutes. The agenda was as follows: 

1. Introductions
2. Energy006
   1. Update on Freezer Challenge (Paul Foote) ~4 min
   2. Update on Greener Labs Inventory Toolkit (Morgan White) ~4 min
   3. Energy Team introduce the recommendation (Bill Rose, Andy Stumpf) ~8 min
   4. Group discussion ~10 min
3. Energy007
   1. Overview of Energy Management Plan (Rob Roman) ~6 min
   2. Energy Team introduce the recommendation (Bill Rose, Andy Stumpf) ~8 min
   3. Group discussion ~45 min
      1. Should the scope only utilize existing technology?
      2. Do we want project-specific preliminary costs or prorated estimates based on historical costs?
      3. Does this document need stakeholder engagement?
      4. This is for meeting the 2050 iCAP goal.
      5. Should this document include net-zero space aspects or should it utilize an anticipated growth percentage?
      6. How does deferred maintenance interact with this plan?
      7. What scenarios would we like to see? For example, what if every new building on campus had to be net-zero energy?
4. Overview of vision for iCAP Teams this academic year (Meredith Moore) ~5 min
   1. Enhanced interaction about the iCAP
   2. Standard recommendations from topical teams – encourage small-scale recommendations that will get to more campus units/groups
   3. Active participation at Campus Sustainability Celebration – afternoon of 10/20/21
   4. Increase connections with other groups – Student Affairs, SSLC, etc.

Thank you to those who participated in the Geothermal Illinois webinar on 7/29! Many thanks to our presenters, Dr. Tugce Baser, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; John Freitag, Executive Director, Geothermal Alliance of Illinois; and Dr. Yu-Feng Forrest Lin, Director of Illinois Water Resources Center; Principal Research Hydrogeologist, Prairie Research Institute.

As promised, slides are available for download here, and a recording can be found here.

Other helpful links shared during the program:

• Illinois Geothermal Coalition: https://geothermal.illinois.edu
• Andrew Stumpf (Geothermal Coalition and ISGS): astumpf@illinois.edu
• John Freitag’s presentation for the Geothermal Urbana-Champaign program can be found at https://www.growsolar.org/geothermal-urbana-champaign/
• The Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET) group is working with utilities in Massachusetts to build a GeoMicroDistrict https://heet.org/2021/05/25/national-grid-proposes-networked-geothermal/ . They gave a presentation recently on the project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPy2Dennq4Q

Please join us on August 10 and August 12 for geothermal webinars that will give us a closer look at campus projects and community models.

For more information, please contact: 

Nancy Esarey Ouedraogo
Extension State Specialist, Community and Economic Development
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS EXTENSION
https://extension.illinois.edu/
905 S Goodwin Ave
557 Bevier Hall MC 184
Urbana, IL 61801
esarey@illinois.edu
217-244-7020

Crop Sciences/ACES is committed to sustainability and works hard to ensure our land is responsibly managed! They are hosting a series of Agronomy Days; events are free and open to the public though registration is encouraged to reserve your space. Agronomy Day field events will begin on July 22 and run through August 19; tours are held each Thursday from 9 AM - 12 PM. 

Click here for more information and to register: http://agronomyday.cropsciences.illinois.edu/