Apply to fill one of the EcoOlympics officer roles Now!

Do team building, leadership, networking with campus stakeholders, and preparing for the real world sound like a great way to build your resume. Gain experience and build these business aspects of your portfolio while having fun with your colleagues and making a difference in the world!

                Leadership, team building, communication and business organizational experience with environmentally friendly programs put you at the top of the pack when applying to corporate/academic internships, non-profit organizations, outreach organizations and graduate programs. Participating as an officer is gratifying and fulfills these qualifications, while providing plenty of documented recognition in environmental stewardship and energy conservation.

See file for example of leadership certificate and acknowledgement from Chancellor Jones.

We are currently building this year’s organization team, so join us to develop your portfolio and work together organizing and helping others reach their goals and make a difference in the world, by sending a 75-150 word essay (essentially 2-3 paragraphs) about why being an officer on the EcoOlympics organization team is important to you. Send to EcoOlympics@gmail.com and include the position (see list below) you are applying  for in the subject title.

For a closer look:

1) At the competition, visit the iCap description and our website

2) For personal benefits visit housings article highlighting Jessica Mondello’s experience and accomplishments

3) As for fun, games and camraderie check out and join our facebook page 

Now accepting resume’s for the following positions:

Team Members:

·         President- leads the organization team, manages all aspects of the competition

·         Treasurer- manages funding of the competition, sponsors, prizes, marketing materials and promotions

·         Marketing/Publicity Chair- manages the recruiting of participants, marketing events and advertising, coordinates efforts with the     Building Captain Manager

·         Building Captain Chair- communicates and motivates the building captains for each team and collaborates with the Publicity Chair

·         Technical Chair- manages and publishes the technical data, networks with utilities services and building managers to gain access to metering information

See file for time commitment per role.

Resume building, networking and gratifying experience – Preparation for real world
Emphasize the shortness of the commitment for the value gained
There will be guidance, resources, and structure for accomplishing these leadership roles

Thank you

Paul Foote

Think Globally. Act Locally

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Facilities and Services, Utilities and Energy Services

Energy Conservation and Retro-commissioning

Office: 217-244-1048

The attached pdf shows the FY16 status update posters for iCAP objectives, shared by each SWATeam at the Campus Sustainability Celebration.”

All, with warm temps last week the shop remained busy. Friday there was even a line for stand time. Wednesday morning was the bike census. It was wonderful weather for it and I think it went well! One CBC student staffer and a CBC volunteer extraordinaire volunteered for the event, which I was happy to see. Thanks, Leah and Rick!

On Friday, a Bike Project Volunteer came and picked up all the scrap we’d accumulated in the last few weeks, which will help immensely in organizing and storage.

Programming alerts: This week is the Campus Sustainability Celebration on Wednesday so the shop will be closed for that; and next Monday (30th) I will be out of town. I will post on the website and Facebook for both closings. (And of course, signage on the door.)

On to the numbers:

Visitors: 99
Sales: $1,066.45
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $159
Bikes (B-a-B): 2 for $210
Memberships: 10 for $300
Tires/tubes: 24 for $124

Sincerely,

• Jake Benjamin
  Campus Bike Center Manager

On October 21, 2017, the Student Sustainability Committee held a voting meeting for Fall 2017 projects. First, the committee approved the scope change for the Illini Bike Share. Next, the committee examined the 34 submitted proposals to select which proposals would get funded, declined, or moved to Step 2. SSC funded seven proposals at this meeting.

All, last Monday we had the bike warehouse move out event on Monday. As I mentioned last week, we moved out about 317 bikes. Some of the bikes we kept and moved back to the CBC have already been claimed as build-a-bikes, which is great. The rest will be cleared out at a TBD date.

Belatedly announcing this but: Lily and I and Amy tabled at an event at the Union on October 5th.  It was a University employee expo of sorts. The very first person I spoke with was misinformed about safe passing distance for cars, something I was able to correct. It was a welcomed change and challenge to inform a lot of vehicular road users about how to interact with bicyclists and pedestrians, considering all the gripes I heard from employees about walkers and bikers—as most employees drive to work from out of town (or at least the ones I spoke with do). I was also pleased to see a lot of familiar faces of people that have visited the Campus Bike Center.

This week is the bike census, happening on Wednesday. Hopefully we’ll get good weather and a good snapshot of the state of bicycle parking on campus.

The numbers:

Sales: $635.50

Memberships: 13 for $390
Bikes (Refurb): 0 for $0
Bikes (B-a-b): 0 for $0
Tires/tubes: 10 for $54

Sincerely,

• Jake Benjamin
  Campus Bike Center Manager

Day version:

https://ednawebtest.illinienergy.illinois.edu/post/BIF/stackv2/graph.html

Week version:

https://ednawebtest.illinienergy.illinois.edu/post/BIF/stackv2/graph.html?week

The real-time water-use meter for the greywater piping system (still using potable water), is scheduled. The work is scheduled to be done 11/23 – 11/25, 2017.

Friends,

Thanks for all the wonderful bicycles that UIUC donated to Working Bikes programs.  We estimate that we received over 330 bicycles from the 2017 collection last week.

99% of the bikes will be repaired and given away locally or internationally for free.  The other three or four bikes out of the 330 will be fixed and sold to support our mission.

Most of the bicycles will be sent the Lesotho with Bikes for Lesotho.  These will be loaded tomorrow and Wednesday.

We also have many local partner organizations that receive free bikes.

Sincerely,

Lee Ravenscroft

workingbikes.org

On October 10, 2017, the Student Sustainability Committee held a full committee meeting. During this meeting, Lily Wilcock and Morgan White presented the Illini Bike Scope Change. Upcoming events and subcommittees were also discussed.