Hi all,

Here are our results from the latest basketball events:

• Women’s game
  
  • 100 lbs recyclables collected by volunteers, pre-sorted
  • 360 lbs recyclables sorted out of DIA’s general waste stream at WTS
  • Total recyclables collected from that night: 460 lbs
  • No diversion rate available because the total waste collected from State Farm Center was from more than just this single event
• Men’s game
  
  • 960 lbs recyclables collected by volunteers, pre-sorted
  • 80 lbs recyclables sorted out of DIA’s general waste stream at WTS
  • Total recyclables collected from that night: 1,040 lbs
  • Total waste collected from that night (trash + recycling): 10,300 lbs
  • Diversion rate: 10%

Thank you,

Daphne

Hi Matt,

It’s nice to virtually meet you - I’m the Sustainability Programs Coordinator at iSEE. I’ve been working with colleagues involved in zero-waste efforts to start drafting a proposal to install hydration stations with water bottle refillers in residence halls on campus. Alma is supportive of this idea and approved the idea of submitting a proposal to the Student Sustainability Committee.

I was wondering if you have any cost information available for the following:

• Equipment cost of different models of hydration stations
• Installation costs
• Filter costs
• Maintenance costs (both for stations with filters and without)

If you can provide any of that info, that would be a big help. Please let me know if you have questions or need any clarification.

Best,

Miriam

Hi Miriam,

I’m glad to hear a proposal is in the works for hydration stations with water bottle refillers!

We’ll gather the information you’ve requested.

MATTHEW M. BROWN (he, him, his)

Director of Facilities for University Housing

Hi Matt,

I wanted to reach out again because we are aiming to submit a proposal by March 20, which is the Spring 2024 deadline for SSC project proposals over $10,000. Do you think it would be possible to gather the cost information before then?

I was also wondering if you could share insight on what a realistic timeline for this project could look like. If we receive SSC grant money at the end of May, would it be feasible to install the hydration stations over the summer?

Thanks and please let me know if you need any other info from me!

Best,

Miriam

Hi Miriam,

Here is information on these items:

• Equipment cost of different models of hydration stations – Filtered are around $1,500; Without filter around $1,000
• Installation costs – Estimate $250-$500
• Filter costs – $65-75 depending on model
• Maintenance costs (both for stations with filters and without) – minimal beyond changing filters

The installation timeline will vary depending on how many units are obtained and when. Summer is a very busy time of year for us. We would likely prioritize locations for installation if possible, work in as many as we can during summer, and continue steadily installing as needed.

MATTHEW M. BROWN (he, him, his)

Hey, all!!

Thanks for the great meeting.

We were glad to hear that Daphne liked the dining glass recycling numbers (130,955lb!), the process flow charts, and the BSW-related engagement section. We're moving ahead with the plan to publish the entire report, and we'll also work on making a clear and concise (1-3 page??) executive summary too. Here's what I got for notes:

Daphne's to-dos:

• P14. Send GFL Battle Creek info
• P14. Hear back from GFL on Novelis info
• P26. Investigate dining's Tin Can recycling??
• P14. Keep working on Effective Diversion Rate calculation w interns
• P17. Send public box file on (ordering MaxR??)
• P43. Send Green basketball rates for March 3+5
• Recommendation Table:
  
  • What other ideas do you have?
  • Any existing recs need higher priority/more detail?
  • Provide draft "responsible party" for each
• Poke Dr. Garg for project updates?

ISTC's to-dos:

• P6 and P16. Include specific numbers of 245 MaxR bins, mostly 3-bin stations, across 70 buildings
  
  • Union has 9 with, 7 w/o shadowboxes
• P14. Add a little more explanation of "auxiliary" -- means it has to "pay for itself," basically
  
  • But F&S still services external dumpsters
• P14. Transition to F&S servicing/replacing outdoor bins happened at end of calendar 2023
  
  • Replacing bins -- currently ~50, but 125 dual bins by Fall 2024.
• Make executive summary
  
  • Determine what's important to include
  • Determine how to present it / where to put that information (iCAP portal? ISTC website? Box?)

Have a great Wednesday! We'll plan to meet again soon to discuss these items.

Betsy

Betsy Ruckman
Sustainability Technician

The Greener Campus Program would like to recognize the most recent events certified under the Green Event Certification Program.

These events include:

- Office of the Provost's Student Success Symposium; hosted February 8th, 2024 

- Office of the Provost's Celebration of Academic Excellence; hosted February 20th, 2024 

- Sustainable Aviation Fuel Workshop; hosted February 23rd, 2024

Congratulations and keep up the great work! 

Miriam Keep, Codie Sterner, and Michael McKelvey met to discuss the status of embedding projects from the iCAP Portal on the SSC website.

Discussion items:

• Michael shared a demo of SSC project embedding (TEST site) which includes a map which responds to filters.
• Codie suggested adding the following SSC-specific fields to projects:
  • (SSC) Project Lead
  • (SSC) Project Lead Email
  • (SSC) Financial Advisor (all)
  • (SSC) Financial Advisor Email
  • (SSC) Project Advisor (only applicable to student-led projects)
  • (SSC) Project Advisor Email
  • (SSC) Team Members (unlimited plain text fields, just like in Contacts tab)
• Change SSC tab title to: SSC Specifics
• Project Funding discussion:
  • Prefer to separate out the 2 funding sources (SCEF, CETF) - perhaps instead of one "Funding Source" in iCAP Portal for SSC, could have 2 - one for each fund. Funding Type in the Funding Details could be a way to group together all SSC funding regardless of source (?)
  • When SSC funds a project, each semester needs to be reported separately, which is a different structure from how "projects" are represented in the iCAP Portal. For one-off funding, this isn't a problem, but sometimes (~5%?) SSC funds projects multiple times, which would require creating multiple Projects in the iCAP Portal to record SSC info about what the iCAP Portal would consider a single "project." How do we handle this? Some potential options include:
    • Always create a sub-project for each semester of SSC funding related to a project (lots of "extra" projects in the iCAP Portal created only to record SSC funding info). Projects created explicitly for SSC which don't have a more logical parent could go potentially go under the SSC project.
    • Use the Project Funding system in the iCAP Portal to record information by semester. The "Project Funding" content type is meant to act as a bridge between Funding Sources and Funding Details, so it might be the right place to store this information.
    • Create a new content type specifically for SSC projects. Perhaps use Metrics as a template? Not sure if there's an advantage to this over repurposing the Project Funding system, except this would be a single-purpose system built specifically for SSC, so it might be more streamlined.
  • Michael and Codie plan to meet March 22 to continue the discussion.

Michael McKelvey, Miriam Keep, and Morgan White have a meeting scheduled on Friday, March 22 to discuss how to structure Recommendations, probably by diagramming on a whiteboard. In the meantime, Michael and Miriam met briefly to discuss iCAP Recommendations while the discussion at last Friday's meeting is still somewhat fresh. Our takeaways:

• Perhaps we shouldn't use Project Updates after all, but should pattern the new Recommendations feature after Metrics:
  • A Recommendation is associated with a project and contains some additional general information
  • A Recommendation can have many "tracking" updates including at least a status and some notes
  • This would mean that each tracking record for a Recommendation wouldn't automatically generate a Project Update. Is that ok?
• We also discussed using the iCAP Portal for the Recommendation workflow. We're not sure whether that would reduce complexity or increase it. Further discussion is warranted. Sample project updates with initial recommendation form attached:
  • Energy010 Establishment of a Clean Energy Plan Conference Committee - Submitted
  • Edu009 - Updating College of Business Course Descriptions - Submitted

We look forward to diagramming this out on a whiteboard in Morgan's office!

Agenda

• Homemade caramels!
• Update: Miriam Keep, Sarthak Prasad, Christina Tran, and Michael McKelvey met to discuss a proposed structure for updating iCAP recommendations: Discussion about updating iCAP recommendations - February 21, 2024
• Lots of back-end updates/upgrades over the past couple weeks - Michael's been testing and retesting to try to catch any incompatibilities with the new updates, and so far things are looking good. Let him know if you encounter any issues!
  • One update of note: the module that creates automatic redirects when titles change has gotten smarter, so those infinite loops should be a thing of the past!
• Google Analytics reporting

Discussion/Decisions:

• Project Updates:
  • Add field "To Do Item(s)" at top of Tasks section
    • Show field in Pending Tasks listing?
    • Q: who should be able to view the content of this field? Other task-related fields are restricted to iCAP Admins & iCAP Moderators, but if you want to assign a task to a non-admin or non-moderator, they'll need to be able to view this task field (and the other fields) in order to view the task. Should we expand the scope of who can view task-related fields? At least add iCAP Clerks, or perhaps even all logged in users?
  • Q: Also add field for tagging iCAP Portal user(s) as responsible party for tracking tasks and updating when they're completed? (note: separate from "Assigned To" field which allows free editing and doesn't associate with user accounts
    • What should this field be called?
    • Should it allow multiple people to be entered?
    • Add a My Tasks page where logged in users can view all tasks assigned to them. Also show tasks they've assigned?
    • Started work on this on test site: Michael's test task
• Pending Tasks list:
  • ✔️Change Title column to "Project Update"
• Recommendations:
  • May not need to allow a Project to "subscribe" to Recommendations:
    • Recommendation has associated Project (allow multiple, but typically only enter one)
    • Project page shows all Recommendations pointing to this project (possibly instead of a project being able to "subscribe" to recommendations)
    • iWG project: instead of showing all the recommendations, provide a link to the page showing the recommendations
  • Recommendation add/edit form could be used to receive suggestions for new recommendations
  • Need to discuss further - Morgan, Miriam, and Michael will meet next week to discuss & diagram out on a whiteboard

RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the February 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,425.1 Megawatt hours.

The February 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.

The Land & Water iCAP team met on Teams from 1-2 PM on Friday, March 91st. Meeting minutes are attached.

The Education iCAP team met on Teams from 1-2 PM on Thursday, February 29th. Meeting minutes are attached