Electronics Recycling e-Guide for Residents of Champaign County
Champaign County provided this information about recycling programs in town
Champaign County provided this information about recycling programs in town
All, Warm weather last week brought in a good number of folks. On Friday we even had a wait for repair stands.
Of the seven shop build bikes I safety checked last week zero passed inspection. This’ll be a good opportunity to retrain staff up on what constitutes a safely functional bike.
Elsewhere, it was our first week being mask-optional but elective compliance was near 100% and we had zero conflicts with folks about the change in policy.
This week I’ll finish up the aforementioned seven bikes, interview some prospective employees, and game plan for post-spring break when things are really picking up. Spring is coming!
The numbers:
Visitors: 24
Sales: $567.50
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $170
Memberships: 7 for $210
Tire/tubes: 7 for $26
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator
Pictures from a Waste Transfer Station tour can be found in the attached link:
At the February 25 Illini Lights Out event, 2,916 light bulbs were shut off, saving $423.03 in energy costs. This also prevented 3.6 metric tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere, which is the same amount of emissions as 401 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a big impact!
Illini Lights Out is a certified Green Event! Click this link to learn how to green-certify your own event.
The next Illini Lights Out of the semester is Friday, March 25th, at 5:30 pm, and you can sign up for that event using this link if you haven't done so already.
Hello Campus Race to Zero Waste 2022 Participants,
I hope everyone is doing well. Week 6 begins this Sunday!
Just a reminder, If your campus is unable to track waste, please consider hosting an online education and engagement campaign during the competition timeframe. Please see attached for the CR2ZW 2022 participant badge (two file formats). Please post this on your websites, and share via social media to highlight and celebrate your participation in the 2022 Campus Race to Zero Waste!
FEATURED INFO in this Email: (more details bellow)
Upcoming deadlines, and other key information and resources:
Note: The guidance above is for the main, 8-week Zero Waste category only. The Race to Zero Waste – One Building Challenge is a special category, requiring one-month tracking; reporting due by end of the competition/review period.
More 2022 CR2ZW Competition Resources:
Please contact me with any questions.
Thanks, take care,
Kristy
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Kristy Jones
Director, Higher Education Programs
Campus Race to Zero Waste Manager, www.CampusRacetoZeroWaste.org
National Wildlife Federation
703-438-6262
Just wanted to provide a wonderful update on Indoor bins for the iCAP portal: The campus has 180 out of 200 available multi stream bins deployed in 56 different campus buildings. According to the iCAP metric, we are 1/3 of the way to our FY24 goal. ~Sydney Trimble
The master list for indoor 3-bin containers has been updated. This list includes all 3-bin station deployments, with information regarding the building, floor, and P-Tag associated with each individual bin. If applicable, additional information regarding their location is provided as well.
See the attached file to review the updated master list for the 3-bin containers.
Hi Morgan!
Just wanted to provide a wonderful update on Indoor bins for the iCAP portal: The campus has 180 out of 200 available multi stream bins deployed in 56 different campus buildings. According to the iCAP metric, we are 1/3 of the way to our FY24 goal.
In the future, I think the iCAP team should consider changing the metric from number of buildings to number of deployed bins because not all campus buildings would be applicable for these bins. Especially if the buildings are offices, residential, or extension related. Orchard Downs and
I also went ahead and updated the bin location master list that came with the project so your team can upload it. It was outdated and I have upgraded the layout of the list so it is easier to find information.
Best regards,
Syd Trimble
F&S Waste Management Intern
fandssydneyt2@mx.uillinois.edu | Skype: (217) 333-1128
Garage & Carpool, Office D-3
In Office primarily Monday, Tuesday, Thursday afternoons
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Environmental Sciences - 2022
Stacey Gloss reached out to the iCAP resilience team to ask if Illinois is at lower risk for biodiversity risk due to the fact that "most prairie was wiped out for corn and soy a long time ago".
Jennifer Fraterrigo replied with the following:
Hi all,
This topic falls within my area of interest, so I skimmed the peer-reviewed scientific article that was published in Ecological Applications upon which the NYT article is based. The authors of the paper model and map protection-weighted range-size rarity (PWRSR), a metric that partly reflects the range size of a species. More weight is given to species with smaller ranges, as these species are expected to be more imperiled. In Illinois, we have relatively few endemic species with small ranges; most species found here have relatively large ranges. Consequently, Illinois scores low on the PWRSR metric and does not appear to be a place where biodiversity is threatened.
That is not to say biodiversity is not at risk here. Rather, the approach used in the study puts less weight on the types of species that tend to inhabit (or could inhabit) the region.
If not already on your radar, an excellent resource for understanding biodiversity patterns and biodiversity threats in Illinois is the Critical Trends Assessment, a program supported by the IDNR and managed by the IL Natural History Survey (https://publish.illinois.edu/ctap-inhs/). The Urban Biotic Assessment Program may also be of interest (https://uofi.app.box.com/s/j1826i8uip6farrlxpckqzpa18b6d97e).
Thanks,
Jennifer
On March 3, 2022, it was recorded that 56 buildings across campus have at least one of the new 3-bins.
For Homeowners:
Citizens Utility Board (Community Solar) - https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/solar-in-the-community/
EnergySage - https://www.energysage.com/
Google Sunroof - https://sunroof.withgoogle.com/
IL Solar Energy Association (IL Solar Ambassadors and vendor lists) - https://www.illinoissolar.org/
For specialized organizations:
Midwest Renewable Energy Association - https://www.midwestrenew.org/
Clean Energy Buyers Association - https://cebuyers.org/
Elevate - https://www.elevatenp.org/
Government:
City of Chicago - https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/progs/env/solar_in_chicago.html
Cook County - https://www.cookcountyil.gov/service/solar-energy
Illinois Solar for All (Community Solar) - https://www.illinoissfa.com/
Illinois Shines - https://illinoisshines.com/
EPA (Solar Resources) - https://www.epa.gov/statelocalenergy/local-renewable-energy-solar
After discussions with the Transportation iCAP Team, the Mode Choice Survey was finalized. Please see the final draft.
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All, We’ve got a backlog of bikes in need of test rides/final tune-ups that I’ll happily attend to with the warmer weather this week. We’ve got a new batch of hires starting as well.
This week I’ve got trainings with staff and I’ll start game-planning with my team for our ramped-up programming for March/April. Warm weather = more bikes.
The numbers:
Visitors: 17
Sales: $356.50
Bike (refurb): 1 for $160
Build-a-Bike: 1 for $30
Memberships: 2 for $60
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator
The only C&D waste the WTS recycles (outside of pulling salvageable metal to send to Mervis) would be concrete and asphalt through the companies Emulsicoat and Vulcan.
And the issue there is that it is so little, we do not have any accurate weight tracking right now.
This is something we could certainly refine for our metrics in the future but that is the status we are at for now.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the February 2022 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 2,931.6 Megawatt hours.
The February 2022 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
Attached is the Red Oak Rain Garden e-newsletter for January-February 2022:
Attached is the "Design for America" February newsletter.
Terry Guen’s practice has brought ecology back to communities through high-profile technical projects in landscape and urban design. TGDA is a nationally recognized designer of urban public spaces and ecological landscapes. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, TGDA designed landscapes for Ikenberry Commons and the recently completed Siebel Center for Design.
March 3, 5:30–6:45 pm • 134 Temple Buell Hall (Plym Auditorium), 611 E. Lorado Taft Drive, Champaign, IL.
Conor O'Shea • Department of Landscape Architecture
This opportunity is available online.
Stanley H. White Lecture: Terry Guen, Principal and Founder, TGDA