The LED Campus commitment includes having all the interior wayfinding signs converted to LED by 2025.  This is primarily LED Exit Signs.   We had hoped to use the Revolving Loan Fund to implement another phase of the LED Exit Sign project.  However, that funding is only applicable if there is a reasonable payback through utility savings.  LED Exit Signs have a good payback, but not through Utilities.  The savings come from reduced maintenance, which also provides a reasonable payback.   Given the shortfall in maintenance funding and the Chancellor’s commitment to becoming an LED campus, Mike Andrechak agreed to provide $100,000 per year for two years toward LED Exit Signs.  This funding could be continued in future years, subject to funding approval.

1. Paper
2. Aluminum Cans
3. Plastic Bottles (1 & 2)
4. All other plastic containers
5. Metals
6. OCC
7. Organics
8. Contaminated Paper
9. Films
10. Bags
11. Fines
12. Glass

From: Shane Stennes <stennes@umn.edu> Date: November 6, 2013 at 11:37:26 AM CST To: "Johnston, Morgan B" <mbjohnst@illinois.edu>, Lydia Vandenbergh <lydia@psu.edu>, Matan Gill <matan.gill@unl.edu>, Jennifer Battle <Jennifer@msu.edu>, Tamm Hoggatt <tjhoggatt@purdue.edu> Cc: Chris Kelleher <kelle847@umn.edu>, Stacey White <whit0691@umn.edu>, Elizabeth Spotts <ehspotts@umn.edu>, Emily Kossila <kossi002@umn.edu> Subject: Re: Campus Conservation Nationals   I'm glad to hear that there is interest. We've corresponded with the folks at CCN a bit about how to facilitate this and it sounds like they have a process that we can start working through in the next few weeks. Have any of you conducted an inter-university competition through CCN (or other means) before? If yes, any insights on how that went or what you'd recommend to make it successful would be appreciated.   As a starting point, I thought it might be helpful for all of us to identify the scope of our campus competitions and that might inform what we do for a competition among our schools. Here's what we are planning right now at the U of Minnesota: 11 residence halls participating, possibly 12 if we can figure out how to get their data into the system (leased property). We are currently planning to report electricity data only. Dates of competition will be February 17 - March 17. Baseline data would be gathered two weeks prior to competition. This may change a bit in the coming weeks, but it shouldn't shift much. What are all of you planning on your campuses?   Thanks,   Shane   Shane Stennes Interim Chief Administrative Officer, Facilities Management Sustainability Coordinator, University Services University of Minnesota   300 Donhowe Building 319 15th Avenue SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 626-2588   http://www.facm.umn.edu/ http://italladdsup.umn.edu/     On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Johnston, Morgan B <mbjohnst@illinois.edu> wrote: I agree.    Sent from my mobile device   On Oct 31, 2013, at 11:18 AM, "Matan Gill" <matan.gill@unl.edu> wrote:   Absolutely! UNL is already working with MSU's USGBC Student Chapter to arrange a competition. I think having all Big 10 schools compete is a great idea.     How do we move forward?    From: Shane Stennes <stennes@umn.edu> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:13 AM To: Matan Gill; Lydia Vandenbergh; Jennifer Battle; Tamm Hoggatt; Morgan Johnston Cc: Chris Kelleher; Stacey White Subject: Campus Conservation Nationals   I see that all of our schools are registered for CCN. Any interest in having a little friendly competition among the Big 10 schools participating? Or maybe some head to head match ups?    Shane Stennes Interim Chief Administrative Officer, Facilities Management Sustainability Coordinator, University Services University of Minnesota   300 Donhowe Building 319 15th Avenue SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 626-2588   http://italladdsup.umn.edu/  

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) requested funding from the Student Sustainability Committee in support of rooftop solar for the new ECE Building. 

From: "Rients, Seth M" <rients@illinois.edu> Date: November 4, 2013 at 2:13:15 PM  Cc: "Johnston, Morgan B" <mbjohnst@illinois.edu>, "Osby, Tracy L" <tosby@illinois.edu>, "Jacobson, Debra F" <djacobso@illinois.edu> Subject: Building Waste Stream Characterization                   I am pleased to announce that your building has been selected by Facilities and Services to be one of the four buildings in a pilot waste stream characterization study for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This study is designed in support of the campus wide Zero Waste policy which aims to increase the waste diversion rate to 75% by the year 2020. Facilities and Services has partnered with the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC), a unit of the Prairie Research Institute at U of I, to perform this waste stream characterization study.                   ISTC will begin examining solid waste outflows from your building during the week of November 11th, for a period of one week. During this time all discarded materials from your building will be collected, sorted, weighed, and documented in an effort to create a baseline measurement for waste diversion activities. The first step in this process is to have a kickoff meeting at your facility so we can discuss in person any thoughts, cares, concerns, or questions that you may have. We would like to schedule a meeting for this Thursday, November 7th at 2 pm. This meeting shouldn’t last more than 30 minutes. Attached to this sheet you will find some questions and answers that have been previously asked of ISTC.   Thank you for your time,   Seth Rients, PSM Project Manager for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign waste characterization study Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (217) – 300 – 4494  

• Electronic Devices Shutdown Policy – Effective Immediately

As an energy conservation method, F&S is implementing a policy for all individuals to turn off any electronic devices in your office before leaving for the day.  This includes desktop computers, printers, monitors, etc.  Be advised that when you reboot your computer and a patch or update is waiting, it will load and may request a system reboot.  This policy does not include mission critical systems.

Energy Advancement Category

1. Atmospheric Sciences Building            53.3%
2. Spurlock Museum                                      44.5%
3. Main Library                                                 43.1%
4. Grainger Engineering Libra                    41.3%

Occupant Action Category

1. Undergraduate Library                            35.2%
2. Law Building                                                  35.1%
3. Christopher Hall                                          30.6%
4. Henry Administration Building             28.4%

Morgan,    We are done with the following- Aces Library Main Library Undergraduate Library Grainger Library Loomis   I have the parts for the following off the original list and would like to start them with your ok. Armory Natural Resources Buillding   I would also like to try and install one on the fountain at Wholers and Sibel to see if we can make them work in those buildings.   Thanks,   Mark Warner Plumbing Foreman

Morgan Johnston provided an overview of campus sustainability efforts to juniors and seniors in Urban Planning.

From: M Connor Schickel [schicke1@illinois.edu] Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 11:24 PM To: thebikeproject@gmail.com Subject: Funding   Hello,   My name is Connor Schickel. I am a Illinois Student Senator and had heard that the Campus Bike Shop is in need of funding. I was interested in meeting with you guys some time and perhaps talking about what you do, so that I can persuade members of our organization to allocate some of our funds towards the Campus Bike Shop.    Look forward to hearing back from you.   Best,   M. Connor E. Schickel  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Engineering Illinois Student Senate *Senator* Sub-Committee on Campus Safety and Student Rights *Chairman* Committee on Campus Affairs Committee on Honorary Degrees

We take total energy usage by building (electricity, Steam, Nat Gas and Chilled Water) convert all of those to one common unit, MMBTU (million British Thermal Units) and after adjusting for the weather differences between years, compare each building's annual usage with the year before.  We then convert the change into a percentage and then rank all eligible buildings by percentage saved.  The top four in each category win first through fourth.     Having won in FY13 does not disqualify you from winning in the future.  The goal is to encourage individual contributions to saving energy.   Mike Marquissee

To bridge gap

Academic and operations Sought proposals through CSE  Solar. Largest location study out of town Madhu Viswanathan. Dashboard. Technology is there. Bridge gap from technology to inform students and employees to impact energy use Brian Allen. As we make changes in storm water treatment. At risk of undoing a lot of good work with vector borne diseases. Impacts of green infrastructure on the disease.   

As part of the Lighting Retrofit #5, 436 T-12 fixtures in the Agriculture Bioprocess Lab were replaced with more energy-efficient T-8 fixtures. This switch will incur an Annual kWh Savings of 68,289 hours. The simple payback for this project is 3.62 years.

The University of Illinois is partnering with Champaign County Bikes to host the first-ever campus-wide bicycle census during Sustainability Week 2013. Volunteers will be dispatched across campus to help count parked bicycles during a one-hour period at 10am on October 23. The findings of the count will help inform future decisions around bicycle infrastructure, parking, and programming on campus. Sign up to volunteer or to learn more at http://go.illinois.edu/BikeCount2013. RSVP on Facebook to help spread the word!

Funding available for FY14 Revolving Loan Fund allocation is $1,470,166.55.