iSEE Sustainable Programs Coordinator Miriam Keep sent the draft iCAP 2025 objectives to the iCAP Working Group:

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Hi iCAP Working Group members,

I am sharing the compiled list of draft objectives for the iCAP 2025. Morgan, Jen, and I are asking you to share these to review with your respective campus units/constituencies, and to send me any questions or feedback by Friday, April 25. I will consolidate all feedback for discussion at our April 29 meeting.

Thank you and please let us know if you have any questions.

Have a great weekend!

Best,

Miriam

The Sustainability Sub-Council met on April 10, 2025. The primary agenda items included: 

• Energy Performance Contract - College of ACES
• Targets for the next iCAP
• DIA-specific objectives for the next iCAP

The slide deck and meeting minutes are attached.

Making good progress on the four rows of solar at the Energy Farm.  Today, the AC power was officially turned on.  Nextracker is supposed to be onsite on Monday to commission the trackers.  That will allow Plant Science folks to till and plant crops.  After Monday, the next steps will be getting the DC wire management complete and connected to the inverters, so they can be inspected and then powered on.

March 2025 photos of the Florida Orchard Prairie have been added to the box folder.

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

Karina Jang researched and conducted interviews with 7 universities, 5 from the US and 2 international, to understand their air travel emissions tracking and mitigation strategies. This report summarizes what she found and includes recommendations for the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign to start their air travel emission mitigation framework. 

On Thursday was another installment of our instructional class, which went well. Friday was our first Bike Center on the Quad event, which also went well. We also received our first end-of-semester/graduation donation.

We have a handful of bikes in the queue which we’ll finalize/safety check this week.

The numbers:

Visitors: 39
Sales: $327
Memberships: 6 for $180
Tires/tubes: 4 for $25

The iCAP Education Team met on Monday, April 7th from 4-5 pm via Teams. First we shared information about the upcoming events during Earth Month. Then we discussed project updates that team members had including AASHE stars data collection, sustainability language in course descriptions, progress towards a sustainability Gen-Ed requirement, a sustainability literacy assessment and outgoing survey, iSEE partnered internship opportunities, and sustainability integration into study abroad. We also discussed student team member ideas like the possibility of composting on campus. The meeting minutes are attached. 

This month, the Land and Water team had their monthly meeting on Friday, April 4, at 9:00 am on a Teams video call. Linked below is the meeting agenda with the meeting notes from what the team discussed. Additionally, a recording of the meeting is linked in the agenda. 

The Energy Team had their April meeting on Thursday, April 3rd, from 2:00 - 3:00 PM. The main discussion points included gathering contact information for building managers and finalizing interview questions for the Building Occupancy Pilot Program. The team also reviewed student availability and finalized email communications. Although the meeting was relatively short, significant progress was made. The meeting minutes are attached!

Attached is paper data from iBuy spanning FY15-24.

Here are the numbers for white paper that Central Stores has sold and the current price per ream (as of FY24). These ream numbers are from January 1 2022-December 31 2024:

0% - 25,858 reams $3.80 each

30% - 9,801 reams $6.98 each

100% - 389 reams $5.49 each (ream price cheaper than 30%, because the prices have not been updated in a few years as the 100% paper does not sell anymore)

Sarthak Prasad introduced Zach to the iCAP portal and showed him how to do project updates.

 iSEE seed-funded research project that uses robotics and artificial intelligence to autonomously manage “high tunnel” food production is entering its second year at the University of Illinois Sustainable Student Farm.

May 2024-February 2025 photos of the Florida Orchard Prairie have been added to the box folder.

Things are picking up and to meet demand, we’ll work on getting some more bikes for sale. We did have nice 3 speed Build-a-Bike finished this week. 

Hoped to have a few more bikes done this last week but all of the ones I safety checked failed and then some—damaged wheels/broken components—but such is the plight of repairing old bikes. 

Tonight is the Bike Project Monthly Members Meeting. 

This week is our first Bike Center on the Quad Day. Fingers crossed for good weather and a good turnout!

The numbers:

Visitors: 59
Sales: $328
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $150
Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50
Memberships: 2 for $60
Tires/tubes: 5 for $24
 

Attached is the 2025 Progress Report for the 2014 Campus Bike Plan. 

At this Friday's Illinii Lights Out event! With your help, 3470 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $527.94 in energy costs. This also prevented 5.05 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 568 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a great impact! 

A sustainable transportation initiative supported by iSEE is conducting an on-campus research project on electric vehicle (EV) charging as a part of its overall project plan. This three-part study will help gather direct user data related to EV charging on campus, AC outlets.

Please see attached the iWG meeting notes from the meeting held on March 25, 2025. The meeting topic was the review of the draft Land & Water objectives for the next iCAP.