At Friday's Illini Lights Out event, 3,668 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $588.50 in energy costs. This also prevented 4.7 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 532 gallons of gasoline being consumed.

Staff tour (1 staff) on February 9, 2024.

Staff tour (1 staff) on February 8, 2024.

Attached are slides and meeting notes from SSLC recent general member meeting that was held on February 7th, 2024. 

The Green Career Forum is set to take place on February 27th at 1 PM in the Illini Union Ballroom. This forum is open to all students interested in "green" internships and job.

Staff tour (1 staff) on February 6, 2024.

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At Friday's Illini Lights Out event, 2,995 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $455 in energy costs. This also prevented 3.7 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 412 gallons of gasoline being consumed.  

Attendance: Pete Varney, Dan Hiser, Miriam Keep, Bryan Johnson, Mark Kuehl, Thurman Etchison, Daphne Hulse

1. Overview of the budget last year

   1. $6,992.19 spent for the 2023 program

   2. Daphne is determining the number of remaining funds from our SSC award (this will likely be the last year we have funds remaining in our SSC account)

2. Overview of results last year

   1. Goodwill: 16K lbs (hard household goods)

   2. Salt & Light: 3.5K lbs (soft clothing and bedding)

3. Overview of this year

   1. Undergraduate residence halls

   2. Explore expansion to graduate residence halls

      1. Orchard Downs

         1. 2 laundry room locations

      2. Ashton Woods

   3. Explore food collection - work with local pantry

   4. iSEE collaboration

      1. Interested in collecting recyclable materials (both that F&S typically collects, as well as special collections)

   5. 3 non-profits interested

      1. Goodwill Land of Lincoln - interested in returning for this year again

      2. Salt & Light - interested in returning for this year again

      3. Habitat for Humanity ReStore - interested in joining this year, wants furniture specifically

4. Assess last years’ donation site locations (bolded locations were successful, asterisked locations should be reassessed)

   1. Hopkins

   2. Student Dining and Residential Programs

   3. Illinois Street

   4. Lincoln Avenue

   5. Wassaja*

   6. Weston*

   7. Busey-Evans*

   8. FAR/PAR*

5. Pete & Dan: containers could be opened at 8am and closed at 8pm

6. Housing suggests that we should look into bolder advertisements in residence halls

Action Items:

1. Determine exact remaining budget for this year (Daphne)

2. Identify locations for Orchard Downs & Ashton Woods (Mark, Bryan)

3. Inquire with Housing communications team about opportunity for advertisement (Mark, Bryan)

   1. + communications for Orchard Downs, Ashton Woods

4. Reassess FAR-PAR location (Mark, Bryan)

5. Reassess Busey-Evans location (Mark, Bryan)

6. Loop in Jenna (Project4Less) into food pantry donation conversations (Thurman, Daphne)

7. iSEE - what materials will be collected? (Miriam)

8. Assign locations to non-profit partners, once locations are determined (Daphne)

The Zero Waste iCAP Team met on 1/26/24 to review iCAP objectives and the statuses of our focused projects. Thurman Etchison and Daphne Hulse provided updates on Housing Recycling and Recyclopedia. Tim Knox provided updates on Green Sports Alliance membership, and the group discussed the current status of the Coca-Cola Buy-Back program and potential areas of improvement. 

The Engagement iCAP Team met on 1/26/2024 to discuss the Campus Sustainability Survey and provide updates on AY 23-24 objectives. Daphne Hulse attended as a guest speaker to discuss the Green Sports Alliance and Green Tailgate event volunteer engagement.

Agenda

• Update: Miriam Keep, Sarthak Prasad, and Michael McKelvey met to discuss the process of updating iCAP recommendations: Discussion about updating iCAP recommendations - January 25, 2024
• iSEE logo updated in footer, content rearranged to accommodate the new logo
• SSC tab implemented on test site; links from demo SSC project embed go directly to projects' SSC tab

Discussion/Decisions:

• Discussed the idea of creating a new content type called "iCAP Recommendations" to pull together information about a Recommendation. This idea has merit, but our discussion yielded perhaps an even better approach. Project Updates are already being used for this purpose, and could potentially be augmented to provide the functionality we want, as follows:
  • Create a tag called "iCAP Team" with the following fields:
    • Title [e.g. "Energy", "ECBS", "eGen", "Transportation", etc.]
    • Description
    • iCAP Theme (associate this team with one of our 10 themes) [e.g. "Energy", "Transportation", etc.]
  • Create a tag called "iCAP Recommendation" with the following fields:
    • Title [e.g. "Energy001 Anaerobic Digester Feasibility Study", "ECONS001 Conservation Budget", "EGen001 Wind PPA", "Trans001 TEM_DMI"]
    • Description
    • iCAP Team (associate this recommendation to an iCAP Team) [e.g. "Energy", "ECBS", "eGen", "Transportation", etc.]
    • Supplanted by (associate this recommendation with another iCAP Recommendation)
  • Add the following optional fields to Project Updates:
    • iCAP Recommendation (associate this update to an iCAP Recommendation) [e.g. "Energy001 Anaerobic Digester Feasibility Study", "ECONS001 Conservation Budget", "EGen001 Wind PPA", "Trans001 TEM_DMI"]
    • Recommendation Status (e.g. Submitted, Transmitted, Withdrawn, Accepted by campus unit, Implementation in Progress, Implementation Complete, Accepted, Implementation Stalled, Returned, Denied/Declined)
    • Recommendation Date (only necessary if we need to allow it to be different from the date of this Project Update)
  • So the basic information structure would be:
    • Theme pages can show a listing of iCAP Recommendations (w/statuses) for the iCAP Teams associated with that theme
    • An iCAP Team can show a listing of iCAP Recommendations (w/statuses) associated with it, as well as a link to the Theme it's associated with
    • An iCAP Recommendation can show a listing of associated projects updates (with statuses & dates), as well as a link to the iCAP Team it's associated with, the Theme that team is associated with, and all the Projects its associated Project Updates are associated with.
    • A Project Update can show a link to the iCAP Recommendation it's associated with, as well as its status and date, along with the other information a Project Update usually shows.
    • A Project can show the iCAP Recommendations associated with that project, as well as their statuses (this information is obtained by looking up info from the iCAP Recommendation for each Project Update w/recommendation info filled out that's associated with this project)
    • We can offer a general listing of all recommendations which can be searched and/or filtered by Theme, iCAP Team, Project, etc.
  • Questions:
    • What about the Implementation Chapter on the iWG page? There's no Implementation theme, so what Theme would we associate it with?
  • See Discussion about updating iCAP recommendations - February 21, 2024 for additional information.