February 2024 Prairie Photos
December 2023 photos of the Florida Orchard Prairie have been added to the box folder.
December 2023 photos of the Florida Orchard Prairie have been added to the box folder.
The Education iCAP team met on Teams from 1-2 PM on Thursday, February 29th. Meeting minutes are attached
The Transportation iCAP Team met on 2/28/2024 to discuss the outlined proposal of the DESMAN report, the 2024 Campus Bike Plan, and end-of-year reporting initiatives. Attached is a link to the meeting recording.
Attendance: Jake Slager, Shawn Patterson, Aaron Finder, Steve Breitwieser, Travis Tate, Alex Nicolauo, Stacy DeLorenzo, Codie Sterner, Jennifer Fraterrigo, and Daphne Hulse.
I had a meeting with Sarthak on February 27th, 2024 to discuss the working document of the 2024 Campus Bike Plan.
Below are the notes of the meeting, mentioning the action items:
Volunteers are needed for two University of Illinois basketball games host to enhanced recycling operations for Fighting Illini, Fighting Waste. Both contests are heavily-anticipated home finales at State Farm Center (SFC): Illinois women’s basketball vs. Nebraska on Sunday, March 3; and men’s basketball vs. Purdue on Tuesday, March 5.
Volunteers will be asked to help educate and encourage fans to recycle their bottles and cans at SFC prior to and during those games, as well as hand-pick recyclables left on floors, seats, and in cupholders after the games. Sign up here: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/1852876547. Nitrile gloves and a green volunteer t-shirt will be provided to volunteers.
The Fighting Illini, Fighting Waste initiative is a partnership between Coca-Cola; the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics; the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment; and Facilities & Services. Volunteers collected recyclables at previous basketball and football games in the past two years.
Establishing a university-wide zero waste culture is a top sustainability objective of the Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP). For more information about general campus waste management (how that works/what is recycled) and iCAP progress, contact Zero Waste Coordinator Daphne Hulse dlhulse2@illinois.edu, 217-333-7550.
https://fs.illinois.edu/News/volunteer-opportunity-fighting-illini-fighting-waste-basketball-events/
All, Business as usual last week. We were especially busy on Friday with a wait for stand time. Today will probably be hopping, too. Warm weather and all. Should cool down by end of week and allow us to finish some for-sale bikes, as spring seems to be coming sooner this year. Only a couple more weeks before we’re open M – F. Be good to get the Tue/Thurs crew some public facing time, as they’ve been squirreled away working on our off-days.
The numbers:
Visitors: 38
Sales: $764.50
Bikes (refurb): 2 for $350
Memberships: 5 for $150
Tires/tubes: 11 for $85
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center
From: Hulse, Daphne <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 3:59 PM
To: Kuehl, Mark A <mkuehl@illinois.edu>
Subject: Lithium ion battery from vacuums at Housing?
Hi Mark,
Last semester when I came by LAR/Allen to do a tour of the recycling system there (during which we discussed the blue bag transition), one of the staff mentioned that there are a particular type of vacuums used that utilize lithium ion batteries, that then must be discarded.
Would it be possible to get a specific URL link or photo of what the vacuum / batteries look like? We may have found a vendor willing to responsibility dispose of these (recycle them).
Thank you,
Daphne
DAPHNE HULSE (she/her)
Zero Waste Coordinator
Facilities & Services | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
+1 (217) 333-7550 | dlhulse2@illinois.edu
https://fs.illinois.edu/zero-waste
“If it cannot be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned, or removed from production.” – Pete Seeger
On Jan 23, 2024 4:01 PM, "Kuehl, Mark A" <mkuehl@illinois.edu> wrote:
Oly,
I believe Daphne is talking about the zoom batteries. Can you provide a picture of the batteries for her?
Thanks,
MARK A KUEHL
Assistant Director for Housing Building Services
University Housing │ Student Affairs │ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
6A LAR │ 1005 S.Lincoln | M/C 030 │ Urbana, IL 61801
217.300.4590│ mkuehl@illinois.edu
www.housing.illinois.edu
Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act any written communication to or from university employees regarding university business is a public record and may be subject to public disclosure.
From: Bytnar, Olymer <obytnar@illinois.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 4:43 PM
To: Kuehl, Mark A <mkuehl@illinois.edu>
Cc: Hulse, Daphne <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Subject: Re: FW: Lithium ion battery from vacuums at Housing?
Pictures attached.
Thank you,
Olymer Bytnar
From: Hulse, Daphne <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 2:56 PM
To: Sophie Boel <sophie@redwoodmaterials.com>
Cc: Fraterrigo, Jennifer M <jmf@illinois.edu>
Subject: FW: FW: Lithium ion battery from vacuums at Housing?
Hi Sophie,
Happy new year! I wanted to reach out and ask if this type of lithium ion battery would be of use to Redwood? I recently learned that our Housing department uses these types of batteries fairly regularly for a piece of cleaning equipment, and once they are used they have to discard them and replace with new ones.
Thank you,
Daphne
DAPHNE HULSE (she/her)
Zero Waste Coordinator
Facilities & Services | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
+1 (217) 333-7550 | dlhulse2@illinois.edu
https://fs.illinois.edu/zero-waste
“If it cannot be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned, or removed from production.” – Pete Seeger
From: Sophie Boel <sophie@redwoodmaterials.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 12:10 PM
To: Hulse, Daphne <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Cc: Fraterrigo, Jennifer M <jmf@illinois.edu>
Subject: RE: FW: Lithium ion battery from vacuums at Housing?
Hi Daphne!
Happy New Year to you and the U of I team! It’s great to hear from you. We absolutely do take these types of batteries and would be happy to recycle these for you. Just a few quick questions that will help determine the shipment approach:
Thanks for reaching out!
Sophie Boel Internal Communications & Public Affairs Manager 440.759.5401
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From: Hulse, Daphne <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2024 11:12 AM
To: Sophie Boel <sophie@redwoodmaterials.com>
Cc: Fraterrigo, Jennifer M <jmf@illinois.edu>; Kuehl, Mark A <mkuehl@illinois.edu>
Subject: RE: FW: Lithium ion battery from vacuums at Housing?
Hi Sophie,
Please see our responses below! Apologies for the delay on my end in communicating with you. I’m looping in Mark here from Housing for any next steps so I am not a bottleneck.
Thank you,
Daphne
DAPHNE HULSE (she/her)
Zero Waste Coordinator
Facilities & Services | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
+1 (217) 333-7550 | dlhulse2@illinois.edu
https://fs.illinois.edu/zero-waste
“If it cannot be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned, or removed from production.” – Pete Seeger
From: Sophie Boel <sophie@redwoodmaterials.com>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2024 3:27 PM
To: Hulse, Daphne <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Cc: Fraterrigo, Jennifer M <jmf@illinois.edu>; Kuehl, Mark A <mkuehl@illinois.edu>
Subject: RE: FW: Lithium ion battery from vacuums at Housing?
Hi Daphne,
No worries at all. Happy to learn more, Mark!
Based on your current answers, we can ship you an Obexion box for you to place your single battery in and can accumulate a few more in (depending on physical size and storage capacity of that battery). When you are ready for it to be picked up, we’ll send you a shipping label and can have it collected.
Best,
Sophie
At Friday's Illini Lights Out event, 3,686 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $560.80 in energy costs. This also prevented 4.4 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 500 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a huge impact!
The next Illini Lights Out event is on Friday, March 22nd, and you can sign up using this link. Stay up to date with other sustainability-related events and news by signing up for the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) newsletter here!
The Urban Biodiversity Master Plan has neared its completion and will be sent to the iCAP Resilience Team for implementation. The iCAP Resilience Team will continue to work with city officals from Savoy, Champaign, and Urbana to collaborate and establish this comprehensive plan.
The iCAP Resilience Team met on 2/22/24 to kickoff the new semester and discuss further objectives for the 2025 iCAP. Meeting minutes are attached.
Miriam Keep, Sarthak Prasad, Christina Tran, and Michael McKelvey met to discuss a proposed structure for updating iCAP recommendations.
The Engagement iCAP Team met on 02/21/2024 to touch base on the ongoing Sustainability Literacy Survey. The Engagement iCAP Team is currently collaborating with other iCAP teams to generate questions to include in the survey. The group also discussed member collaboration with other universities to survey residence hall sustainability recommendations. Other upcoming iSEE events were also discussed.
Parkland Environmental Biology class visited (24 students) on February 20, 2024.
All, Most surprisingly, we sold a bike on Friday during the snowy times. Odd timing but if you need a bike, you need a bike! Can’t argue there. Got a new hire in pipeline, gearing up for some warmer weather this week. Probably means some busyness around here.
Been working with my staff on lacing up wheels. Can’t speak highly enough of the instructional book and the staff have taken to it admirably.
The numbers:
Visitors: 21
Sales: $493.50
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $160
Memberships: 5 for $150
Tires/tubes: 9 for $95
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center
The Zero Waste iCAP Team Met on 2/19/2024 to discuss initiatives regarding environmentally preferred procurement, updates on the university's participation with Coca-Cola buyback, and recyclopedia feedback. The Engagement iCAP team chair, Codie Sterner, joined to discuss the sustainability literacy survey. The Zero Waste Team will come up with questions to add to the survey.
Attendance: Pete Varney, Dan Hiser, Miriam, Bryan Johnson, Thurman Etchison, Daphne Hulse
Agenda
Determine exact remaining budget for this year (Daphne)
$5,951.38 in SSC fund
$6,992.19 spent for the 2023 program
Identify locations for Orchard Downs & Ashton Woods (Mark, Bryan)
Reassess all previous locations & confirm (Mark, Bryan)
Box truck sizes on Euclid - donation partners
Babcock Hall - inquire with driver on the northernmost suggestion
Sherman Hall - inquire with driver
Inquire with Housing communications team about opportunity for advertisement + communications for Orchard Downs, Ashton Woods (Mark, Bryan)
Loop in Jenna (Project4Less) into food pantry donation conversations (Thurman, Daphne)
Connected with the Eastern Illinois Food Bank - setting up meeting to discuss logistics
iSEE - what materials will be collected? (Miriam)
Out of office - reconnect later
Assign locations to non-profit partners, once locations are determined (Daphne)
Action Items
Connect with driver for shipping containers, ensure access to locations (Daphne)
Confirm all locations with Stacey DeLorenzo (Daphne)
Connect with non-profit groups, confirm participation (Daphne)
Confirm graduate halls move out timing (Mark, Bryan)
Marketing materials from Housing - posters, digital sign (Mark, Bryan)
Confirm iSEE’s plan for integration (Miriam, Daphne)
Staff tour (2 staff) on February 16, 2024.
Please find attached PDF containing performance metrics for ZipCar usage on campus for January 2024.
Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha Inc., a Gold awardee in January, was certified as the newest iSEE Certified Green Chapter! The Institute also certified four new Green Events or series last month: weSTEM Conference; N2Onet Workshop; Free Medical Screenings; and Student Success Symposium.