Please note my comments in track changes format.

Please call or email if you have any questions

Keith

Thanks for the excellent discussion on Monday about the first draft of the iCAP section on Purchasing, Waste and Recycling.  I tried to reflect the comments in the attached revised draft, provided in clean and marked versions. 

Because Casey and I need to prepare a presentation for October 22 on our draft, please send me comments by Monday, October 20 at 9 am.

Hope you are happy with our progress.  Thanks and best wishes. - Warren Lavey

Dear Ben

I am pleased to provide you with our consensus final report.

I was able to address the concerns your raised regarding (1) clarifying the nature of purchased off-sets, and (2) making it clear that we are not necessarily requesting a new OFFICE be established for Sustainable Transportation, rather we would like to see a director of Sustainable Transportation appointed.

Regarding the specification of revised targets.  Our committee had extended discussions on this topic and our position is stated in the report as follows;

"Our committee recognizes that the 2015 goal of reducing carbon emissions by 30 percent relative to the 2008 baseline is unrealistic. Similar concerns can also be raised regarding the more distal targets.  It is the position of our committee that insufficient information is available to provide adjusted transportation emission targets at this point in time. Until such time as substantive decisions have been made regarding strategies to reduce carbon emissions and/or to allow the purchase of carbon offsets, it will be difficult to develop more specific data-based targets for transportation emissions."

We understand that you would have preferred to have new and explicit targets set for intervening years between 2015 and 2050 but it is the position of our committee that there is insufficient data to develop such predictions.  If you or other committees want to take up this task, we would not object.

Thank you for your help on this important and exciting project.

On behalf of the entire committee,

Sincerely

Wojtek

The first draft of the SWAT iCAP revisions contains all the information that has been put into writing so far. Please see if you agree with the organization, content, and language of this document, though the latter has underwent very few changes. As far as content goes, I attempted to make the depth of information consistent throughout.

I welcome any comments and additions; please share them by highlighting the target text and clicking insert>comment. This is just the easiest way to ensure that your contributions are easily tracked and accounted for.  - Amy Liu

Dear all,

Adding to Kishore's, attached are the text contributions (word conversion and pdf) for storm water, organized re heirarchy of Goals, Objectives, and Strategies set out in the 'Sustainable Transportation example template'. I hope these meet our team's writing objectives in content, quality, and tone. 

Amy, please let me know if you have any issues/questions integrating them with the main body of text. Unfortunately, and I extend very sincere apologies - but I am required to attend thesis reviews tomorrow, and the student for whom I chair a committee presents exactly at noon!

I will look forward to seeing/hearing or reading what comes of tomorrow's meeting. And will look forward to the iCAP forum.

Thank you,

Mary Pat

Good morning, all.

An issue that came up in my mind that I did not want to bring up yesterday for fears it would derail conversation/take up too much time: I think it is critical that the iCAP and its policies apply to the Auxiliaries on campus – Housing, Intercollegiate Athletics, Recreation, etc. If you think about the State Farm Center and Memorial Hall, and all of the housing and dining halls, they are a *significant* generator/handler of purchases and waste. Does/will the iCAP and its policies apply to them.

And I think it is great that someone else (Morgan) suggested that our contracts with vendors include items that we want them to address in their bids and work with campus: recycling, use of sustainable/recyclable materials, reporting requirements, etc.

Great conversation yesterday!

Until next time,

Marcus

Hi all,

Sorry for the lateness, but here's just a VERY rough draft outline that we can maybe use for our iCAP recommendations. I'm sure I'm missing lots of points, but I thought we could at least work off of it during our meeting.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YnC5b12vAL02XMCbHWLrIVB-u54CbKHdz_MvxMiJtKQ/edit?usp=sharing

Alex He

Please find attached a write-up for the iCAP. As I just returned from a long trip, and punched this out in a hurry to meet tomorrows deadline, it may need to be extensively edited and modified. But these suggestions are basically what I have to offer.

Should we espouse a larger vision – net zero? Without a timeline as an aspirational  goal

N. Rajagopalan PhD

Hello Colleagues and Sustainable Electronics Enthusiasts. It’s been a while since we had a meeting, and in case you missed it, I wanted to point out a recent Sustainable Electronics Initiative blog post which may be of interest. Students from the Illinois Business Council’s Green Initiative have been recycling printer cartridges as a fundraiser. We had hoped to have them give a presentation for the consortium, but due to scheduling conflicts, they instead provided some information for our blog. See http://wp.istc.illinois.edu/sei/2014/09/26/ui-sustainable-electronics-campus-consortium-bc-green-initiative-recycles-printer-cartridges/. If you want to set up a similar cartridge recycling program in your office or unit, pay particular attention to the referral information in the post, so the BC Green Initiative can receive additional funding for the referral.

Also, I want to encourage you to participate in a webinar next Tuesday, October 21, at 9:00 AM on “Sustainable Electronics for Purchasers.” You can register at https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/890717127. I’ll be presenting on topics such as purchase avoidance, reuse, repairing instead of replacing, supply chain issues (e.g. conflict minerals), and resources to help make more responsible choices. This webinar is a presentation for the IL Green Governments Coordinating Council Procurement Subcommittee, but is open to other interested parties. The presentation will be around 30 minutes long with time for questions after, so although we’ve set aside an hour, it will likely be more like 40-45 minutes long. I hope you can join us!

Best wishes,

Joy

Joy Scrogum

Emerging Technologies Resource Specialist

Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC; www.istc.illinois.edu)

Co-coordinator, Sustainable Electronics Initiative (SEI; www.sustainelectronics.illinois.edu)

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Hi team,

Attached are some comments I made and minor changes. Thanks Wojtek for getting this together!

Grace

Egen gang,

I apologize but I am not able to make the meeting today.

I have taken a first VERY ROUGH pass at an Energy Generation document based on the document that Ben sent out this weekend, as well as the format and content of the previous report.

Please note that the targets are something that I put down to get us started thinking.  We will certainly need to review the %’s to insure they both “push the envelope”, but are also achievable.

I tried to capture all of the strategies that I recall having been discussed.

When we reach some consensus on the targets and strategies, I will be happy to help putting some of the supporting text down for review as well.

Mike Larson

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Director of Utilities Production

I'd like to add a strategy: to review purchasing policy to curtail unnecessary purchases in general. I would also like to note the previous iCAP strategies in this report: this is important when saying things like "several of the previous strategies are unlikely to be implemented at UIUC". 

I also think that this sentence-

On several measures of purchases and waste, UIUC has been performing worse than in the iCAP

baseline year (2008) – such as more total waste and landfill, and lower weight of recycled commodities.

should be changed to have better wording, like:

Compared to the iCAP baseline year (2008), the University has been displaying poor performance on several measure related to purchasing and waste: the total amount of waste sent to the landfill has increased, and the amount of waste diverted to recycling has decreased.

Finally, I feel that references to UIUC should be changed to "the University", not an acronym.

If the exact wording will not be adopted in the new iCAP, the last two suggestions are somewhat irrelevant.

Dear All,

I've attached notes from Friday's meeting.

Thanks and see you this Friday!
Claudia

Dear Colleagues:

I have tried to compile the information we discussed into the next draft of our report (attached).

It would be good for us to try and agree on the content before I convert it into the requested format for out chapter.

Do you think you could take a look at the draft and use "track changes" to make any edits.

Please get the draft back to me by end of business on Wednesday so I can start working on the final version of both our report and the re-formatted version.

Many thanks for your help and hard work

Wojtek

All,

Here is the list of goals/targets I compiled for todays meeting using Karl's 5-year-plan and our discussions.

Claire McConnell

Stacey,

The air pumps are installed at both locations.  I have attached a picture

James

Dear Al,

Attached please find a reply from the iCAP Working Group regarding the wind PPA process.

By the way, thanks so much for your participation in iSEE's Roundtable this week...sorry we didn't get a chance to chat!

Cheers,

Ben

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Professor Benjamin J. McCall

Associate Director for Campus Sustainability Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus-sustainability@illinois.edu