Event features a diverse group of researchers, educators, journalists and activists discussing cutting-edge issues surrounding sustainability and social justice, building bridges across different approaches, disciplines and geographies, and charting new directions to a sustainable, just future. Free attendance, but registration is required; instructors are invited to contact us to bring classes.

Registration Opens for iSEE Congress 2019 -- 'Sustainability Justice'

Tony Mancuso . Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE)

The evaluation committee has selected a preferred vendor to develop Solar Farm 2.0, and the Chancellor's office approved moving forward with contract development. PEI will work with this vendor to complete the next steps of the award process. The vendor name will be announced upon approval of the contracts in fall 2019.

All, Last week was comfortably busy. We had all-stands-full for a few days but no waiting patrons. A few build-a-bikes have been started, which is welcome. Shop builds are humming along, more or less. A new sign-in computer should be arriving this week. Donations are still coming in fairly regularly. We’ve got a stockpile of 10 or so kids bikes that I’ll aim to take to Salt & Light this week.

We built up and donated a bike to Campus Recreation Intramurals last week.

The students covered for me during my staff retreat on Friday. There was only one or two minor hiccups and they were my fault.

This week I’ll game plan for more volunteer tasks, do some long-overdue sorting, organizing, and purging in the new-stock area, safety check shop builds, and set up a July staff meeting for my team.

Numbers:

Visitors: 78

Sales: $683.50
Bike (refurb): 2 for $290
Build-a-Bike: 1 for $30

Memberships: 5 for $150
Tire/tube: 6 for $34

Thanks!

- Jake

All, Not a lot to report from last week. I interviewed another potential student employee. Had some iPad troubles but Omid was here and able to help. Thanks, Omid! There was a bike waiting for me on the outside rack when I pulled up this morning, so that’s continuing to be of service to us. Over the weekend, Todd grabbed the extremely large pile of scrap we had accumulated. Thanks, Todd!

My staff and I also had an impromptu staff meeting on Friday which we’ll look to continue on a monthly basis from here on out.

This week I have a Staff Retreat on Friday so I’ll be out of the shop until 4:30 or so and the students will cover for me.
Numbers:

Visitors: 74
Sales: $1,027

Bikes (refurb): 4 for $560
Membership: 5 for $150

Tire/tubes: 21 for $152

Thanks!
- jake

These are notes from 6/7/2019 iWG meeting. They have been submitted in an informal style. Several SWATeam recommendations were assessed.

Please see attached the VeoRide ridership data for May 2019.

All, Definitely getting busier! Got a sale in just as we were closing up on Friday. Two more bikes were waiting on the outside rack when I got in this morning. I passed the manager of Champaign Cycle on my ride in and he said they’ve got a couple bikes for us as well.  We’re pretty close to capacity on bikes here at the shop. But I guess it’s a good problem to have considering the business model.

Last week we stripped 30 wheels out of the back of the shop. Still too crowded for my liking but definitely more manageable. We have about a dozen stripped frames ready for the scrapper as well, with another five or to be stripped this week. The front “sales floor” is opening up nicely, though, thanks to the sales we’ve made thus far.
I also interviewed a potential new hire last week.

Anecdote: Over the weekend I saw a woman riding her bike almost get hit twice in one intersection. She was crossing Lincoln and just inched her way through the intersection and both lanes of traffic had to stop short for her. It was a scary and clear reminder that we still have a ways to go on infrastructure and education on campus.

Numbers:
Visitors: 70
Sales: $1,157.10
Memberships: 4 for $120
Bike (refurb): 5 for $830
Tire/tubes: 6 for $26

Thanks!

- jake

The Campus Bike Center held Fix-a-flat classes every week on Fridays from March 29, 2019 (from 11 am - 12 pm) till the end of semester (May 3, 2019).

Description for the Fix-a-Flat class:
“Tired of getting flat tires on your bike? Come to this 1 hour informational hands-on class to learn how to solve one of the most common bicycle repair problems! We’ll cover the basics of removing a wheel and tire, replacing the tube, and reinstalling the wheel on the bicycle. All tools and parts will be provided.”

RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the May 2019 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 2,052.7 Megawatt hours. See attached file.

All, Last week was slow. Still in a lull before Summer II begins. We got three donations over the weekend here. Mostly junk but better than being abandoned somewhere. On Thursday I collected 5 bikes from the Parking warehouse.
Last week Theo collected about 20 wheels out of the back of the shop that aren’t worth keeping. We’ll scrap those this week. I got in touch with FAA (Fine & Applied Arts) to see if they’ve got any interest in some of our throwaway junk for art/sculpture projects and that sort of thing. They said they’d pass the info along.

Jeff, from CCB, stopped by and will likely be taking the kids bikes off our hands that we’ve accumulated. That’ll clear up some space. We lent out the big trailer for the University Y to use at Dump & Run next door at the Stock Pavilion to great success and will probably do it again this week. It was nice to see someone else use it!
This week I’ve got an interview with a student worker today. Other than that, business as usual.

Numbers:

Visitors: 51
Sales: $236.60
Memberships: 3 for $90
Tire/tube: 15 for $101

Jake Benjamin

The eGen SWATeam submitted a recommendation to the iWG, proposing the development of "a policy for the consideration of geothermal energy systems in all new or retro-commissioned buildings on UIUC campus."

See attached the SWATeam recommendation eGen009 Campus Geothermal Policy complete with comments from eGen SWATeam members.

An iCAP Working Group assessment of this recommendation began on June 7, 2019.

The eGen SWATeam submitted a recommendation to the iWG, proposing that the university "Enter into a contract with an engineering firm to evaluate
the feasibility of implementing geothermal energy technologies in future new construction and retrocomissioning of buildings on the UIUC campus."

See attached the SWATeam recommendation eGen010 Geothermal Feasibility Study complete with comments from eGen SWATeam members.

An iCAP Working Group assessment of this recommendation began on June 7, 2019.

All, Last week was on the slow side. We got busy in fits and starts. This week will likely be the same. I was out of the shop for most of Tuesday afternoon, so the students covered for me. No troubles there.

We concluded our Bike Abandonment Program last week, as well. We collected 15 bikes total that were either donated at the Bike Rodeo, during open hours, or left after hours on the rack outside. Having the rack outside was super helpful, not only to collect bikes during off hours, but as additional storage during open shop time. Long term, having a donation drop off system in place for after-hours would be beneficial.

This week I’ll dig into the pile of student-checked bike builds. I’ve got space for about 5 more bikes and then I’ll have to look at rearranging again. We can technically cram more bikes in the spaces we’ve got allotted for Sale Bikes but I’ve noticed it makes it a lot more difficult for people to try them out and thus, they don’t get sold. Limits of the space, I suppose. Of course, all the bikes will probably sell in the end.
I’ll also coordinate with Parking about picking up some bikes they’ve got for us.

Numbers:
Visitors: 73
Sales: $509.43

Memberships: 10 for $300
Bikes (refurb) 3 for $410
Tire/tube: 18 for $117

Jacob Benjamin
Manager, Campus Bike Center