RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the June 2018 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totalling 1,087.9 Megawatt hours. See attached file.

Davey Tree began the professional tree inventory update in June 2018. 

The 2017 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Water Quality Report is available. The report provides information about the source of campus drinking water, contaminant testing, general health precautions, and how the calendar year 2017 sample results compare to regulatory requirements.

The university has met all U.S. EPA and Illinois EPA drinking water quality standards.

The exterior Integrated Pest Management program has been in place for several years, and recently the program was formalized and adopted by F&S Grounds.  This helps meet iCAP objective 7.2 and supports the student-led efforts to achieve Bee Campus USA recognition.

Registration has opened for “Sustainable Cities,” and iSEE is inviting instructors to send their classes to one or more of its Congress sessions this fall!

Congress takes place Oct. 3-5, 2018, in Illini Union Rooms A/B/C. 

The purpose of iSEE Congress 2018 is to foster critical thinking on the strategies for meeting our growing urban transportation, housing, energy, water, food, health, and safety needs sustainably — and for making our cities more resilient to climate change.

Read more and find the registration form on the Congress 2018 webpage >>>

Instructors: If you would like a slide to share with students, please email sustainability@illinois.edu.

In addition, iSEE will have two evenings for poster presentations at the Congress. Students, postdocs, and other researchers are invited to present their work on one or more of the “Sustainable Cities” themes. To register a poster, fill out the form >>>

All, pretty much same old, same old over here this past week. Sold some bikes, people are coming in with a little more frequency. Donations are still coming in faster than I can strip them, as almost all of them are not worth fixing. Volunteers fell off a little for last week, only had a few come by. The Bike Project and I had a meeting to discuss nuts and bolts of operations here. We tentatively scheduled meetings for every two weeks.

This week I hope to schedule another training with another new staffer if his schedule allows. I’ll also keep culling bikes and building up new ones, per usual. The student staff have requested a template/checklist for bike builds that is a little more in depth than the current tag system checklist and separate from our Shop Build/B-a-B Safety Check form to help them learn the ropes better. I’ll work on a little mock-up for that this week as well.  

The numbers:
Visitors: 84
Sales: $1,306.00
Memberships: 6 for $180
Bikes (refurb): 6 for $1,000
B-a-B: 1 for $25
Tire/tube: 13 for $69

Thanks!

• Jake Benjamin
  Campus Bike Center Manager

All, last week was hot but we survived. A few storms broke up the extreme heat, thankfully. Other than that, it was business as usual. All-stands-full for a few days last week. We had a nice line on Friday but the crazy storm also penned everyone inside the shop while they waited it out. I’ve hired two more student workers and working on a third. I’ll train them this week. We’ve had a lot of volunteers in lately, and one especially eager volunteer wants to come almost every day all summer. Yikes.

Thanks again to Todd for picking up the scrap pile over the weekend. I’m trying to stay ahead of the donations, as far as how many bikes we’ve got in here. As we sell more, that will help, but we’ve still got more bikes than is probably necessary or safe.

This week I’ll be focusing on setting up some volunteer tasks as we have had multiple volunteers per day in over the last week or so, burning through some of my go-to tasks. I’ll work on minute organization tasks and maybe overhauling hubs/wheels. As mentioned I’ll be training new staff this week as well.

The numbers:

Visitors: 93
Sales:  $849

Memberships: 11 for $330
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $135

Tires/tubes: 18 for $124

• Jake Benjamin
  Campus Bike Center Manager