These students are working with Morgan Johnston for LAS Honors College credit in the James Scholar program for Fall 2014.

• Ethel Liao – BIF crosswalk
• Sicong Fang – BIF crosswalk
• Jack Carrera – Bike Census
• Cara Ruan – Communication about Climate Change
• Vicki Prince – tree campus
• Ricki Runions – tree campus

I like the revisions, Warren and SWATeam.

I know that this is late – and I meant to mention it on the earlier draft but forgot – are you making any recommendations for handling C&D waste? Thoughts:

• Campus and contractors must weigh all C&D waste generated at a worksite (scale is available for free at the WTS) and report to the Capital Projects office (and iSEE, or the STARS reporter)
• All C&D waste must be disposed of at an approved C&D recycling center, such as MidAmerica Recycling, which accepts it for free (but doesn’t weigh it or provide any receipts)

Cheers,
Marcus

Warren and SWAT Team:

Thank you very much for your time and the new version. I think that it is in great shape. I will be available on October 13.

Best regards,

Junhua Jiang

Senior Research Engineer, PhD

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Illinois Sustainable Technology Center

From: Rajagopalan, Nandakishore
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 5:36 PM
To: Amy Liu
Cc: swat-water@dib.illinois.edu
Subject: RE: Update

I think that’s a great idea. Do contact the wolverines

From: Amy Liu
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 5:13 PM
To: Thayer, Danielle J
Cc: swat-water@dib.illinois.edu; Nishant Makhijani
Subject: Re: Update

Hi all,

I will probably be unable to attend tomorrow's meeting due to a time conflict with SSC. 

Along the lines of something I conveyed before, there are minor differences between the inputs we've entered for UIUC water use and the data that is shared in "iCAP Water Emissions". These might need to be resolved in order to propose the most useful benchmarks. And for our special interest University of Michigan, I am considering whether I should contact someone from their water institute to gather more information about their use statistics and strategies. I assume that such information will be be more related to our later goals. Let me know what you think.

Best regards,

Amy Liu

see file

Dear All,

Just a reminder that this week's meeting will be on Friday at 4pm in NSRC 358, as will every meeting for the rest of semester.

Thanks,

Claudia

Dear SWATwater team and Ben,

Good morning, unfortunately I have to attend another meeting (today 10/1 & again 10/15) during our swat water meeting time. I'm truly sorry for my absence today. 

I've attached my notes on the storm water aspect of the reduction/re-use goals and scenarios, with a draft list of recommended steps/studies to support moving forward through planning and design. I hope these goals and strategies hit the level of information needed at this point, supporting 5) d. of Kishore's handout. They can be translated into the recommendation format for future iCAP working group review, post Oct 22.

Ben, I'm sorry to miss the chance to meet you today - I look forward to the next opportunity. 

And I look forward to any comments from the team.

Very best,

Mary Pat

Mary Pat Mattson, RLA, ASLA

Assistant Professor : Department of Landscape Architecture

College of Fine and Applied Arts : UIUC

Hello, SWATeam and Consultation Group.  Thank you for your comments on the draft report and for providing additional information.

Here is the report that our SWATeam is submitting to iSEE.  Let's hope that it will be helpful.

The next step is drafting a revised section of the iCAP.  Let's meet on Monday, October 13 at 4:30 pm (Dilip, can you find a room?).  I'll send around a draft before the meeting.

Best wishes.

Warren Lavey

Hello everyone,

I have updated the SWAT folder with the new minutes and documents that have been being passed around.

Just a reminder, 2 weeks ago, we spoke about how we may want to utlize our volunteers moving forward, and also, about reaching out to other faculty/ staff at UIUC to get an expert opinion on some of our ideas for the new iCAP goals. Since we have 3 meetings left until the Campus Sustainability Day deadline, establishing these decisions this week so that we have 2 weeks to coordinate might be beneficial. (I can also assist in reaching out to persons we are interested in to save you some time once we establish a date).

Our next meeting will be Wednesday, October 1st in NSRL room 358 at 12 pm. I will see you all there.

Have a great day,

Danielle

Hi Kishore,

The spreadsheet is very helpful, many thanks. 

I quickly combed through the document and didn't find any errors in calculation. However, there seem to be minor differences between inputs for UIUC water use when compared to the "iCAP Water Emissions" spreadsheet Ben recently shared with us e.g 1023 mgpy vs. 1063 mgpy.  

I might look at University of Michigan more closely later today since it's of special interest to us.

Amy Liu

Amy/Lance/Lance:

If you have the time, please go through the attached xlsx and see if you can catch either transcription or formulaic errors.

Stephanie/Keith: If you have data from 2005 on water consumption per year and buildings sq. ft. age that would help us in estimating annual growth rates.

Thanks

N. Rajagopalan PhD

Please note the attached PDF file which is a map of the campus Raw Water System

Keith

Please note the attached PDF file which is a map of the campus Raw Water System

Keith Erickson

Hi Morgan,

The project I am working on is called Green My Crib. I have attached the flyer that I sent out to houses below. Basically, I made a checklist of items in the categories of energy, waste, green purchasing, education and community. Houses compete against each other by receiving points based on what items from the checklist they implement in their house. 

Right now, I am trying to get houses interested. The end goal right now is to get about 5 houses interested this semester and expand next semester. I am planning to do audits of the houses who sign up so I can recommend the best ways for them to make their houses more green.

Let me know if you can think of any ways to better publicize this competition to the Greek community or if you know any students interested in helping out.

Regards,

Madeline Kull
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
College of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dear Colleagues:

I have asked Tina Candler to schedule a meeting of our group for as soon as possible.

I have attached the our Fall 2014 report….

In preparation for our next meeting, please read the report and think about the following

1. Should the transportation iCAP targets be modified?

2. For each of the iCAP targets how should we modify the previous year’s report?  Are there new strategies or action steps that we should be proposing?

3. Are there additional strategies to reduce transpiration emissions we have no thought of?

4. Can we make proposals about additional data collection that would help to advance the interests of ICAP in the area of transportation.

Please come to our next meeting prepared to discuss the above.  If you would like to edit our Fall 2014 report prior to the meeting, feell free to do so.

Best wishes

Wojtek

Wojtek J. Chodzko-Zajko, PhD
Shahid and Ann Carlson Khan Professor and Head

Department of Kinesiology and Community Health

"This summer, the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (CUMTD) maintenance facility got something cool to go on top of its roof — a big photovoltaic system — 1,212 panels.

According to Jane Sullivan, whose title at CUMTD is grant manager and sustainability planner (and who is a 2012 graduate of the UI School of Earth, Society, and Environment, where I teach), it's the biggest solar array operating in central Illinois.

It generates 350,000-kilowatt hours of electricity over the course of the year, which translates to one quarter of the electricity used there. (The maintenance facility is a busy place, operating 24/7 when the UI is in session and providing full service maintenance for the district's 102-bus fleet.)

Sullivan said the investment in solar is in keeping with the broader environmental mission of the district. "We're interested in finding as many ways as we can to reduce our environmental impact, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions is an important part of that."" - Rob Kanter, http://www.news-gazette.com/living/2014-09-28/environmental-almanac-loca...

Morning, all.

Courtesy of Max-R (big name in recycling bins), we have a new, functional, clean, state-of-the-art rubbish/recycling station in the break room (photo attached). It will still be serviced by our same cleaning staff. As free time allows, I’ll update the signage. The cardboard bin is next to the pretty bin. Note the SEDAC logo and the “this is made from 1501 recycled milk jugs” image.

Thanx to Lucas, Stevie, Carrie, Aaron and others for logistical and physical support in getting it sited.

Cheers,
Marcus

From: Lage, Stephanie M
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 2:50 PM
To: Bender, Karen L; Vanhoy, Roger; Fruehling, Amy; Goodlad, Lauren M E; Hodson, Piper; Chakraborty, Arnab; Johnston, Morgan B; Ben McCall
Cc: Kokini, Jenny; Rosenbery, Amy Nichole; Mancuso, Anthony D; Khanna, Madhu
Subject: Roundtable October 7

Good afternoon,

We are finalizing some details for the Roundtable Discussion on Tuesday, October 7, 2014.

As you can see on the attached agenda, the event begins at 9:30 and will be finished up by 4:00.

We have 12 visitors coming from corporations, government and non-government agencies. We hope that you will take advantage of this opportunity to interact with them and stay for the whole day, particularly for the roundtable discussion, and the small group discussion. 

Please confirm your attendance for lunch and the afternoon discussions so that we can finalize lunch counts and appropriate seating arrangements.

Thanks!

Stephanie 

Stephanie M. Lage

Assistant Director

Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment

From: Kenfield, Micah Charles
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 9:00 AM
Subject: SSC Spotlight in the Daily Illini

Good morning, team!

Some of you may have already seen this, but the Daily Illini gave some great coverage to the Coffee Ground Repurposing Project in today’s paper:

http://www.dailyillini.com/news/article_bd4b0c04-4381-11e4-93bc-0017a43b2370.html

Great job to all involved in the project, and a special thanks to Dr. Wander for her interview in the article.

All My Best,

Micah Kenfield

Program Advisor, Student Sustainability Committee

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

285 Illini Union, MC-384