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SSC Projects

Since 2008, the Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) has funded hundreds of sustainability projects across the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. Filter and search the SSC Project listing below to learn more about the initiatives the SSC has supported.

Title Semester Year Startedsort ascending Status Student Led? Category Associated Project(s)
NCSR Composting Project Fall 2019 Closed No Food and Waste Compost at National Soybean Research Center (NSRC) [ARCHIVED]
Diversion of Non-Recyclable Plastic using Pyrolysis Process to Produce Fuels for Campus Fall 2019 Closed No Food and Waste Reduce Emissions from Transportation
Eco-Olympics Fall 2019 Closed Yes Education and Justice Eco-Olympics
Improved Recycling at CEE Fall 2019 Closed No Food and Waste Increase Recycling Rates
Solar Farm 2.0 Landscape Buffer Fall 2019 Closed No Land, Air, and Water Solar Farm 2.0
Joint Pollinator Garden and Composting Systems to Offset Environmental Impact and Reinforce Responsible Stewardship in Research Fall 2019 Active No Land, Air, and Water Davenport Hall Carbon Garden
Project 4 Less Fall 2019 Closed Yes Food and Waste Project4less
Illinois Language and Linguistics Society 12th Annual Conference Fall 2019 Closed Yes Food and Waste
Illini Solar Car, 2nd Generation Vehicle Fall 2019 Closed Yes Energy Illini Solar Car
ACES Farm Drainage Assessment Fall 2019 Closed No Land, Air, and Water Construct Tile-Drainage Wetlands, Reduce Nitrates from Agricultural Stormwater
Illinois Water Day (Microgrant) Spring 2019 Closed Yes Land, Air, and Water
Recycling Pods Spring 2019 Closed No Food and Waste Install Appropriate Waste Collection Infrastructure
South Farm Draper Purchase Spring 2019 Closed No Food and Waste Sustainable Agricultural Practices
Vision Zero for UI Spring 2019 Closed No Transportation and Infrastructure Vision Zero
Wastewater Elimination & Scale Up Restoration Spring 2019 Closed Yes Transportation and Infrastructure Illinois Biodiesel Initiative (IBI)
WaggleNet Spring 2019 Closed Yes Education and Justice
Energy Shaft for Geothermal Exchange at the UIUC Energy Farm Spring 2019 Closed Yes Energy Geothermal at the Energy Farm
Expansion and Increased Utilization of Biomass Heating at the Energy Farm Spring 2019 Closed No Energy Biomass Boiler at the Energy Farm
Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) Geothermal - 2 Spring 2019 Closed No Energy Geothermal at the Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)
An Energy Saving Demonstration for Remolding Old Structures at the ABE Farm – Phase 2 Fall 2019 Closed No Energy
Art and Design Hallway Lighting Spring 2019 Closed No Energy Energy Conservation Incentive Program (ECIP)
Illini Hillel Sustainability Project (Microgrant) Spring 2019 Closed Yes Education and Justice Reduce Single-Use Plastics
Agroforestry for Food - Irrigation Initiative Spring 2019 Closed No Land, Air, and Water Sustainable Agricultural Practices
Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECEB) Interactive, Energy/Education/Production/Use Display Spring 2019 Active No Education and Justice ECE Net-Zero Energy Building
Eco-Olympics Energy Conservation Competition Marketing (Microgrant) Spring 2019 Closed Yes Energy Eco-Olympics

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