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SafeTraces, Integrating Green Technologies, and Facilities & Services invited guests from across Illinois and throughout campus to discuss indoor air quality for Illinois buildings.
The Resilience iCAP Team had its November meeting on Wednesday, November 9th, from 11 - 12 PM. The team had presentations from three community representatives about the resilience issues at their cities (Savoy, Champaign, and Urbana). After the brief presentations, the team discussed possible solutions and how the university can help to solve the resilience issues presented. Meeting minutes and presentation slides are attached.
Members of the iCAP Engagement Team met today to discuss our final recommendations for the semester.
Attatched are the meeting minutes.
The Education iCAP Team had its online November meeting on Monday, November 7th, from 5:00 - 6:00 PM. The team worked on drafting a new Sustainability in Study Abroad recommendation. The team will continue to revise the recommendation and have it ready for iWG to review at their December meeting. Meeting minutes are attached.
On November 7th, the Zero Waste iCAP team met to discuss DIA sustainability initiatives with Tim Knox and made edits on the Project 4 Less expansion recommendation to be submitted in the coming month(s).
Meeting minutes are attached.
The transportation iCAP Team met on Friday, November 4th, to discuss long-term and short-term bicycle storage at UIUC.
The Energy iCAP team met on Friday, November 4th, to discuss recommendations on how the University can achieve a clean energy plan.
Meeting Recording: https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_ilr81gro
On November 7th, the Land and Water iCAP team met to review the results of the Milkweed survey, make final edits to the Monarch Butterfly recommendation, and discuss new recommendations inspired by the Campus Landscape Master Plan.
Meeting minutes are attached.
On November 7, UIUC sustainability representatives met and discussed the following:
Digital signage rendering — feedback?
Making the tagline “Fighting Illini, Fighting Waste” bigger.
Reducing Coca-Cola script.
Adding logos of iSEE and F&S.
Add Certified Green Event logo?
Volunteer sign up sheet — we have reached 49 student volunteers!
Volunteer training — added into the vision and roadmap document.
Daphne (+ potentially F&S interns) will be attending the November 11th game to see how basketball games operate.
Event has been advertised on Eweek, iNews, and GradLink as of this Sunday (11-6).
YAH Agency: content capture at the basketball game — sending a film crew.
State Farm Center: blue bags.
Shawn & Daphne attempting to get blue recycling bags implemented at State Farm Center ahead of the November 14th game (potentially by the November 11th game).
Allow us to benchmark general recycling at a basketball game (we don’t currently have this) vs a highly engaged, recycling-focused event.
The basketball game is a Certified Green Event!
Would iSEE able to advertise this?
10 question pre-game trivia: will be posted on the game day app.
Post-game feedback questions — reached out to Marty.
Solar picnic tables:
Need dimensions from Jake to check with F&S storage space.
Concern: do we know if ARC would even end up approving the design, come spring?
OSU MyCup survey results?
Congratulations to our recent Green Event and Green Chapter recipients.
Green Chapter:
Kappa Delta, gold, Recertified November 2022
Green Event:
F&S Zero Waste Team Zero Waste Basketball Game, Certified November 2022
Keep up the great work, happy greening!
Hello!
Once again, congratulations on completing the Plastic Reduction Challenge. We are proud of you for taking the steps to become more conscious of your waste and dedicating your time to reflect on and change these habits.
As a group, we decreased our average plastic waste by over 200%! Our Week 4 point total for the group was 7.7 points, a positive score reflecting many, many positive actions in addition to plastic avoidance. One participant decreased their waste by more than 400%, while others had positive point totals throughout the entire challenge. These accomplishments, among others, are incredibly impressive!
If you submitted a Google form anytime throughout the challenge, please keep an eye on your inbox for a certificate of completion for the Plastic Reduction Challenge. As mentioned many times throughout the challenge, we hope you consider checking out the Waste Reduction @ Illinois Facebook group to stay connected with fellow participants, start a discussion, hear about the latest sustainability opportunities at U of I and beyond, and share tips for living sustainably going forward.
This morning, we used a random name generator to choose three winners of the challenge. As a reminder, you received one entry for every week you participated in the challenge. The winners are Olivia Cloat, Janet Jarvis, and Susan Krusemark! Winners, we will contact you on how to receive your prize! Congratulations to you three and, of course, to all participants! We hope you enjoyed your time during the challenge! We sure did!
Again, we offer our congratulations to each of you for completing this challenge. We know it was time-intensive and not always easy, but it was certainly worth it. Being an environmental hero does not have to be changing the world with a single action. You are an environmental hero by reducing your own environmental footprint and helping others do the same. Write to your politicians, store managers, or leaders, and encourage them to prioritize sustainability. Show that there is a demand for these initiatives. Building a culture of sustainability on our campus and in our world starts with you!
Looking for a place to start (or should we say continue this great momentum)?
Join the Zero-Waste iCAP Team or another iCAP team of your interest.
If you ever find yourself using plastic, sign the Use The Bin pledge to vow you’ll always recycle.
Celebrate America Recycles Day by joining the TED Talk Discussion on November 15th. Register here!
As always, please reach out to us with any questions, comments, or feedback, and stay tuned for more exciting events in the future. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Take care!
Meredith Moore, iSEE Sustainability Programs Manager
Emily Dickett and Jenna Schaeder, iSEE Sustainability Interns
On 11/3/22, F&S FIR produced a map of the inventory for state-supported facilities. Attached is the map.
On November 2, UIUC sustainability representatives met with Coca-Cola and discussed the following:
T-shirt renderings: 50 green volunteer shirts, 200 orange giveaway shirts.
Volunteer shirts: adding organizational logos from iSEE, F&S, DIA, and Coca-Cola to the back of the shirt.
Giveaway shirt: “Fighting Illini, Fighting Waste” tag phrase.
Cost and shipping estimates:
$115 shipping.
~$2500 shirts.
Shipped to Daphne at F&S.
Delivered 11/1, Friday before the game.
Blue PMS 2767. Orange PMS 7417
Sustainability fund: $10k for this year (~$2500 used for this game).
Final number on this?
Solar picnic tables:
Jake will get dimensions of the boxes to see if F&S can store them.
Todd (fonts, colors, part-time).
Architectural Review Committee (outdoor spaces).
Digital advertising:
Updates?
Recycling receptacle at State Farm Center:
Will be put in place next to the trash compactor below the center. We will be able to separate the two and determine a diversion rate after game day.
Temporary, not the permanent solution. There are spatial limitations to work through.
Blue bags at SFC: final piece.
Collecting bottles and cans with liquid during game day will not be an issue.
All, While my jury duty service was still in effect, we had reduced hours as needed last week but were able to open fully Wed – Fri. It was the first week of noticeably fewer folks through the doors. As such, we got a few bikes on the sales floor and a dozen or so moved over from storage.
Tomorrow we will host Working Bikes for our donation event. This is the first one since Nov 2019. We’ll have around 200 bikes to donate and hopefully will have a few folks available to help out and make it go quicker. They’ll be providing pizza for us, too. This event will halve the number of bikes left in storage. The Bike Project and I will sort through the remaining bikes in the coming weeks.
The numbers:
Visitors: 43
Sales: $475.50
Build-a-Bikes: 2 for $100
Memberships: 4 for $120
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the October 2022 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 2,058.2 Megawatt hours.
The October 2022 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
Attached are the notes from the October meeting for the Campus Tree Advisory Committee.
On October 31, UIUC sustainability representatives met and discussed the following:
Attendance: Pete Varney, Thurman Etchison, Shreya Mahajan, Daphne Hulse, Tony Mancuso
Updates:
State Farm Center will accommodate an outdoor recycling receptacle on the zero waste game day (to keep trash and recycling separated, easier to compare final weights).
Temporary for this game. Need to get creative about a permanent solution.
Next step: coordinating blue plastic bags for the indoor recycling containers.
Volunteer and Giveaway t-shirt renderings.
Goal to receive the shirts by 11/11.
Student volunteer recruiting:
iSEE Newsletter Tuesday 11/1 will generally advertise the event
iSEE Newsletter Tuesday 11/8 will solicit for volunteers if we have not hit the 40-50 target
Pre-game trivia questions:
F&S Zero Waste Team will take the lead on this.
OSU MyCup Program — survey findings?
Updated contact list (with Coca-Cola contacts included).
SSLC attempting to connect with Illini Pride and Orange Krush leadership, no response yet. Part-time staff advisor at the SSC is attempting to make contact, too.
Post-game feedback:
Circle back with Marty to see if a QR code with a link to questions is possible. “Let us know your feedback.”
Keep it short:
“Did you notice that this was a zero waste event?” YES / NO
“Do you support having more emphasis on recycling in future games?” YES / NO
Get the zero waste game as a iSEE Certified Green Event.
F&S Zero Waste Team will take the lead on this.
Green Sports Alliance — Meredith, Daphne, Betsy Liggett + Colleen Ruhter (Safety and Compliance) met with two Green Sports Alliance representatives (Bradley Vogel and Matt Adler)
Play to Zero platform.
Safety and Compliance worked with Procurement to process a GSA annual membership.
Discussed how to get Athletics to take initiative on sustainability programs, and to transition contact with GSA to them
Focus on resource + cost savings (F&S tracks all of the waste from Athletics facilities as of July 1st 2022). Betsy and Colleen are investigating if we can track their energy + water use.
Next step: Set up a meeting with the GSA Director + UIUC Athletics Leadership (those who are interested)
Simultaneously, the Zero Waste iCAP team is attempting to find student athletes would be interested in joining our iCAP meetings
Invited Tim Knox, Assistant Athletic Dir of Facilities/Capital Projects (Engagement iCAP team) to our next iCAP meeting
Long-term thinking
Recycling bin infrastructure:
16,000 seats at State Farm Center.
10,000 of the seats are accessed on floor 2.
4 concession counters accessed on floor 2.
No recycling bins on floor 2.
Encourage permanent infrastructure on this floor.
Zero Waste iCAP team would like to submit a formal recommendation — is this the best route?
Concessionaire — Oak View Group.
Achieve a higher diversion rate at future events by addressing concession waste.
Drinks (cans and bottles) are plastic #1 and #2.
There are paper cups with plastic lining + souvenir cups which can’t be recycled.
None of the food containers (paper cartons, aluminum foil, cardboard containers, paper wrappers) will not be recyclable (and no infrastructure for composting).
Look to other Big Ten schools as models of success (F&S Zero Waste Team is working on creating a Big Ten waste management comparison report).
Illini Lights Out as a model for student engagement:
Dedicated, consistent group of students interested in assisting with sustainability at athletic events.
Meredith is working on creating a listserv of trained volunteers.
Utilize the opportunity of service fraternities and sororities looking to get involved in the community (tailgating).
