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  1. Outfitting main quads with 3-bins

    Associated Project(s): 
    Indoor Bin Update

    Members of the Zero Waste Team analyzed the main buildings in each of the three central quads. Locations of current 3-bins were noted as well as areas where more were needed. The plan is to transition away from single flow trash and recycling bins towards a system where only 3-bins are used in main hallways. This will ensure that there are well marked bins in highly visible areas and will condense the many bins that need to be serviced by university workers into fewer overall bins. Overall this initiative will lead to improved waste management efficiency and increased recycling rates across the campus.

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  3. Weekly Update

    Associated Project(s): 
    Campus Bike Center

    All, Manageable levels of busyness last week. I think our visit numbers have declined slightly, which makes sense for the time of year. Highlights of the week: Received a couple worthwhile direct donations. Fixed up a couple kids’ bikes. Had a student staff interview. Got a few B-a-Bs out the door. The law professor who’s into bikes has become a regular Friday volunteer.

    The TBP Monthly Member meeting is tonight, which I will attend. This week is also the deadline for abandoned bike retrieval, so I will do a rough inventory of keep/scrap. We also may table at the Green Quad Day, if I have available staff since it overlaps with our open hours. Have a lot of loose wheels that are of questionable quality that we need to deal with, too.

    The numbers:

    Visitors: 82
    Sales: 865.51
    Bikes (B-a-B): 3 for $160
    Memberships: 8 for $240
    Tires/tubes: 11 for $112

    Thanks!

    Jacob Benjamin
    Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center

  5. Leftover light count

    Associated Project(s): 
    Light the Night

    Total white: 520

    Total red: 537

     

    Alma Mater

    White: 182

    Red: 198

     

    Ikenberry Commons

    White: 155

    Red: 164

     

    Hellene Greenway

    White: 183

    Red: 175

  7. Weekly Update: Bike week, busy week

    Associated Project(s): 
    Campus Bike Center
    C-U Bike to Work Day
    Light the Night

    All, Another busy week with the fun addition of Bike To Work Day and Light The Night. Haven’t seen the numbers yet but both events went well,  I believe. Friday was surprisingly slow here, which was great since I had staff out sick. We had a BTWD participant follow up and volunteer with us on Friday, which was great.

    With the previously mentioned events out of the way, it’s on to prep for the abandoned bikes being released to us soon. Space is at a premium, so we’ll have to get creative and/or judicial in the bikes we utilize. Hope to get a few more bikes on the sales floor. We also already have one bike ready to go for our Kids Bike Giveaway.

    The numbers:

    Visitors: 103
    Sales: $1,230
    Bikes (B-a-B): 3 for $150
    Memberships: 19 for $570
    Tires/tubes: 25 for $187

    Thanks!

    Jacob Benjamin
    Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center

  9. Engagement iCAP Team Meeting

    Associated Project(s): 
    Engagement iCAP Team
    Sustainability Engagement and Outreach

    Introduced new clerk and team members. The team brainstormed updates for the ‘24-’25 mission statement, with members assigned to bring suggestions to the next meeting. The second half covered team objectives for the year, including creating a green training program for employees, improving outreach to incoming students, running green-certified events, and increasing student participation in sustainability.

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  11. Final Bike to Work Day registration numbers

    Associated Project(s): 
    C-U Bike to Work Day

    Total Registrations: 1212

     

    Location breakdowns:

    Alma Mater: 359

    Campus Bike Center: 79

    Campus Disability Resources & Educational Services (DRES): 43

    Campus National Soybean Research Center (NSRC): 31

    Campus Orchard Downs: 62

    Campus Recreation Center East (CRCE): 206

    Campus Research Park: 102

    Campus Vet Med: 19

    Champaign Downtown: 78

    Champaign Wolfram Research: 40

    Mahomet Middletown: 10

    Rantoul Downtown: 5

    Savoy Recreation Center: 28

    St. Joseph Downtown: 5

    Urbana Brookens Center: 33

    Urbana Downtown: 105

  12. Thank you email sent out

    Associated Project(s): 
    C-U Bike to Work Day

    Sarthak sent out an email to all campus Bike to Work Day welcome stations to thank them for their work and participation in this event. All remaining t-shirts and swag would be returned to the MTD Training Facility on 09/19 between 2-6 pm. Special thanks to Paul Jensen and his team at F&S Public Functions who provided the tables, chairs, recycling, and trash for today’s event as well as the Housing department for providing food and refreshments to all eight campus welcoming stations.

  15. Weekly Update: Bike Week

    Associated Project(s): 
    Campus Bike Center
    C-U Bike to Work Day
    Light the Night

    All, It’s Bike Week! Bike To Work Day and Light The Night are this week, so we’re prepping for that. Still busy here, too, during our open hours. We’re moving more build-a-bikes and have 3 bikes in the queue for the sales floor. After this week we’re on to the abandoned bikes from the last round up. Always fun around here!

    The numbers:

    Visitors: 122
    Sales: $1,801.50
    Bikes (refurb): 2 for $340
    Bikes (B-a-B): 3 for $210
    Memberships: 25 for $750
    Tires/tubes: 30 for $237

    Thanks!

    Jacob Benjamin
    Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center
     

  16. iCAP Portal Admin Meeting - October 4, 2024

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    Agenda

    • [Michael] New draft Admin Dashboard
    • [Sarthak] Promoting project updates to front page
    • [Quinn] Giving student RSOs and groups ability to update their respective pages
    • [Quinn] Linking SSC Projects with iCAP Projects that are directly or indirectly related to the funding project
    • [Miriam] Paring down the list of metrics

    Discussion

    • Promoting project updates to front page
      • Check the "Promoted to front page" checkbox when adding Project Updates
        • Anything from iCAP Teams, including minutes
        • Just about everything should be promoted to front page to keep homepage looking fresh
        • Change default to promoted to front page
    • Giving student RSOs and groups ability to update their respective pages
      • What access and permissions to give?
      • Yearly temporary status for users to keep using the portal?
    • Linking SSC Projects with iCAP Projects that are directly or indirectly related to the funding project
      • Feature exists! 🎉 Use Associated iCAP Portal Project(s) association in SSC Projects
    • Paring down the list of metrics
      • Miriam: consider cleaning these up before moving on to archiving projects.
      • A lot of these have not been updated or aren’t really relevant, and currently we are linking directly to this page from the iSEE website.
      • Link to Objectives Dashboard instead
      • Group metrics in some way (e.g. Transportation-related)

    TODOs

    • ✅ Make latest Featured Projects show on Projects page
    • ✅ Change Project Update to default to promoted to front page
    • ✅ Change metrics link on homepage to Metrics w/Details listing
    • ✅ Update homepage video with video Miriam sent in Teams chat
    • ✅ Fix metric annotations to allow line breaks
    • Next meeting:
      • Intro to new Recommendations process

  17. Registration updates

    Associated Project(s): 
    C-U Bike to Work Day

    There are currently 1,027 registrations for all of Champaign County's Bike to Work Day. Station managers picked up their materials Tuesday 9/17 at the MTD Training Facility, where staff and faculty had sorted all t-shirts, pamphlets, key chains, etc. into station boxes. Boxes will be returned on Friday 9/20 to the MTD Training Facility. The planning team is working with Forage Kitchen to draw 16 gift card winners after all participation numbers are in. 

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  18. Education iCAP Team September 2024 Meeting

    Associated Project(s): 
    Education iCAP Team
    Sustainability Literacy Assessment
    Sustainability Gen-Ed Requirement

    The iCAP Education team met on Teams from 4-5 PM on Monday September 16th. The team reviewed the charges and priorities for the 2024-2025 academic year as well as the objectives. The team discussed the Sustainability Literacy Assessment, the Sustainability Gen-Ed, and the Green Career Fair. The meeting minutes are attached. 

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