Attached is Veo bike share data for April 2025.

The Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation Susan Martinis, the Interim Vice Chancellor for Administration and Operations Lowa Mwilambwe, the Associate Vice Chancellor and Executive Director of Facilities & Services Jeff Angiel, the Director of the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Madhu Khanna, and the iSEE Associate Director for Campus Sustainability Jennifer Fraterrigo met on May 15, 2025 to discuss the status of the Green Research program and the staffing request.

While everyone agreed that the program and coordinator position are important, the group felt that the timing is not right to ask for a new position given the current economic climate and impending budget recission for F&S. The VCRI suggested we brief the Sustainability Council next fall to inform Provost Coleman and the future chancellor about this effort. Everyone deeply appreciates the committee’s work on this topic and remains enthusiastic about implementing the program once we are in a better financial position. 

Sarthak Prasad, Michael McKelvey, Morgan White, Quinn Connolly, Miriam Keep, and Tiffany Jolley met to discuss iCAP Metrics improvements - specifically, displaying metrics with large numbers of tracking records and combining multiple metrics on a single graph.

Discussion/Decisions

• Need better way to display metrics with large numbers of tracking records
  • See Discussion about Metrics - October 16, 2024
  • e.g. Wind Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) - 9 years of monthly tracking data
• Need to be able to combine multiple metrics on a single graph

TODOs:

• Michael to investigate Highcharts as a replacement for Google Charts
  • Maintain tabs showing individual targets
  • Allow selection of graph type (bar, line)
• Michael to investigate calculated/combined metrics:
  • Show multiple metrics on single chart
  • Stretch goal: automatically calculate percentage against a baseline metric (e.g. Solar Farm 1 and Solar Farm 2 as percentages of Total Energy Use)
• Michael will add theme maps embed code to theme pages
• Remove objective numbers from beginning of metric names (see Objectives Dashboard)
• Discuss metric naming convention in next iCAP Portal group meeting

Morgan White, Miriam Keep, Elizabeth Murphy, Tiffany Jolley, Quinn Connolly, Sarthak Prasad, and Michael McKelvey met to discuss how best to cross reference iCAP Projects and Recommendations.

Discussion/Decisions

• Rec's link to
  • a Team,
  • Associated Project(s),
  • Objective(s), and
  • Future Updates project
• What to include on the team pages?
  • example logged in and logged out
  • For now: decided to hide the sidebar listing of associated Recommendations and show the list of recommendations w/recommendation updates in main section
  • Discuss how to display the recommendations (and recommendation updates?) in next large group meeting
• What to include on the iWG page? and the Sustainability Council page?
  • iWG project page: button in description field linking to Recommendations page
  • Sustainability Council page: disassociate this project with recommendations
• How to get to recommendations from the Home page?
  • Through link to iWG - decided not including a direct link to Recommendations page
• Could these be based on theme instead of team? What to show on a theme page?
  • Decided not to show list of recommendations on Theme pages; get to recommendations through iCAP Team linked in description
• Which projects should be associated? should it just be by objective and future updates..?
  • Associated Project(s): Don't include iWG and Team projects; just a minimal list of associated project(s)
  • Further Updates Will be Posted To...: 1 new project spawned by recommendation (if applicable)
• How to remove the summary pages?
  • The following projects can be found under Topical iCAP Teams
  • Recommendations summary projects (e.g. Education iCAP Team Recommendations Summary):
    1. Remove list of recommendations from Background
    2. Delete each project update that's actually a recommendation update (after confirming info has been migrated to a Recommendation Update)
    3. Delete Recommendation summary project (?)
  • iCAP Team projects (e.g. Education iCAP Team)
    1. Add link to Recommendations page filtered by related iCAP Team (e.g. see Transportation iCAP Team page)

TODOs:

• Show associated recommendations on projects linked via "Further Updates Will be Posted To..." field
• Add time-based filter on Recommendations listing page (e.g. last 5 years)

May 5th, 12:00 - 1:00

The final iCAP Transportation meeting of the semester!

We heard from Charles Okoli on his semester-long research surrounding encouraging micro mobility on campus. His report is attached.

We discussed priorities for next year and heard preliminary results of the EV survey on charger usage in lots B4 and E15.

The full breakdown of the meeting is in the meeting minutes attached!

iSEE held a Clothing Swap and a Sustainability Rocks event at Green Quad Day on 4/12/2025. Students, community members, and visitors were able to donate and take used clothes during the free thrifting event, as well as paint rocks to place around campus to promote sustainability.

Over 50 volunteers helped pick up trash resulting in a total of 220 pounds of trash being removed from campus on 3/11/2025 and 4/22/2025.

Check out our new report on e-bike and e-scooter infrastructure, based on a survey of peer universities.
It explores how campuses are supporting e-bike e-scooter usage through planning, policies, and infrastructure and offers insights to guide our future efforts.

Check out our new report on EV infrastructure, based on a survey of peer universities. The study examines how institutions across the country are planning, funding, and implementing EV charging solutions to support campus sustainability and evolving transportation needs.

The insights gathered will inform our campus’s approach to EV infrastructure development and long-term mobility planning.

Final meeting where members reflected on the year's accomplishments and reviewed projects/gave feedback on procedures. 

School of Art and Design Re-Fashioned Fashion Show

The annual School of Art and Design fashion show is back! Re-Fashioned will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 10, in the Siebel Center. Admission is free. Students from the Studio Arts Fashion Concentration will be presenting over 100 one-of-a-kind ensembles. Wearable works of art walk the runway, combining sustainability and creativity in a fun event for the whole family. 

The Campus Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC) met on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 from 1 - 2:30 p.m.. Following was the agenda for the meeting:

• Introduction – Morgan White (5 minutes)
• Old Business
  • F&S TDM Status Update – Stacey DeLorenzo and Sarthak Prasad (25 minutes)
  • Lincoln Ave Corridor Study (North of Florida Ave) – CCRPC (15 minutes)
  • Bike Share Updates– Sarthak Prasad (5 minutes)
• New Business
  • EV infrastructure research – Bhagyashree (10 minutes)
  • E-bike research – Bhagyashree (10 minutes)
  • Air Travel Emissions research – Karina Jang (10 minutes)
  • 2025 Transportation Survey – Sepideh Azizi (10 minutes)
• Community Updates – (5 minutes) 

Please see attached the slides from meeting. To view the recording, please go to https://uofi.box.com/s/f9vq8w52a4tjmu154ecuspfyfjqb9784.

The attached PDF contains performance metrics for ZipCar usage on campus for April 2025.

The University Bicycle Ordinance was updated in spring 2025. This update includes information and rules for bicycles, e-bikes, and e-scooters on-campus. Download the updated document here: https://go.illinois.edu/BikeOrdinance

At our last Lights Out event of the semester, 2711 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $412.47 in energy costs. This also prevented 4.045 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 397 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a great impact and thank you all for a great semester!

Please follow the document attached to read about the 2025 Arbor Day celebration, which was celebrated on the south quad. 

The iCAP Education Team met on Monday, May 5th from 4-5 pm via Teams. First we had a discussion recapping the Green Globes and iCAP Reception event where student input on the 2025 iCAP objectives was collected. Then we discussed the next steps towards the sustainability Gen-Ed requirement and the sustainability literacy assessment. We closed by sharing iSEE partnered internship opportunities. The meeting minutes are attached. 

RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the April 2025 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,377 Megawatt hours.

The April 2025 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.

Students from the Dept of Landscape Architecture, Dept of Civil Engineering, and faculty advisors have submitted to the 2025 EPA Rainworks Challenge. 

Friday was a busy day. First up was the quad event, which despite the rainy weather earlier in the day, ended up being a dry time and quite popular. We’ve had 2 – 3 people come by CBC after having been at the Quad event, so it’s definitely getting some new folks aware of our space. Our open hours were not crazy busy on the bike side of things, but our gear rental partners were positively slammed, which created some logjams at the entrance—nothing we couldn’t handle!

This week we have our last Instructional Class of the semester, and unfortunately the lead staffer for that program is graduating. Replicating that staffer’s expertise and enthusiasm for the work will be a tall order.

Tonight is the Bike Project Members’ Meeting, which I’ll be attending.

Warm weather this week, so we’ll likely be busy.

The numbers:

Visitors: 60
Sales: $1,005.25
Memberships: 9 for $270
Bikes (refurb): 2 for $360
Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50
Tires/tubes: 14 for $111