The Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) is the strategic framework for meeting our Climate Leadership Commitments to be carbon-neutral by 2050 and build resilience with our local community. The first iCAP was written in 2010, and it is updated every five years.
The iCAP 2025 is currently in development, with broad public input, strategic insight from the iCAP Teams, and formal approval anticipated in Fall 2025 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Chancellor.
This solar array was made possible thanks to Student Sustainability Committee funding. The array helps to power the greenhouse operations and reduce its carbon footprint.
Wymer Hall is currently under construction.
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The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Rainwater Management Program (RMP) showcases a future vision for the campus that emphasizes the importance of rainwater retention and replenishment. The goal is to transition from the traditional viewpoint of stormwater runoff as a maintenance issue to one that envisions rainwater as an asset to preserve, harness, and celebrate.
This project will update on bicycle infrastructure improvement on campus, which may include bicycle lanes/path, bike racks, bike repair stations, etc.
In order to effectively increase recycling rates on campus, the community must be adequately informed on what the Waste Transfer Station can accept, and what it cannot. Campus recycles 5 primary commodities: paper, cardboard, plastic, aluminum, and scrap metal. There are a myriad of other products that present themselves on campus, and community members would benenfit from a resource that outlines the appropriate disposal methods.
Recyclopedia was born of the desire and need to offer the community a comprehensive recycling guide.
In early 2023, undergraduate students Hannah Kim and Sakshi Vaya proposed Project Revert to Earth, with the aim to tackle food waste contamination in recycling streams on campus. Funded by the SSC, the research study aims to understand students' behavior toward recycling and how those behaviors would change if recycling became easier and more accessible.
In 2018, PRI Sustainability Researcher/F&S Zero Waste Coordinator Shantanu Pai began to investigate services which could accurately weigh frontload pans when they were dumped into frontload trucks. Unlike swingpan and rolloff pans, which are individually taken to the Waste Transfer Station for weighing and dumping, many individual frontload containers are dumped into a single truck, and the lump sum is weighed at the Waste Transfer Station.
