Morgan White and Carl Wegel presented various sustainability campus and project information, along with providing wind and solar farm budgets and information.

The Sustainability Sub-Council met on Oct 8, 2024. The primary agenda items included: 

• Carbon Neutral Energy Planning
• Plastic waste reduction
• Carbon credit sales

The slide deck and meeting minutes are attached.

The Energy Team had their meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 8th, from 3:30 - 4:30 PM. We discussed solar rooftop project progress, reviewed funding opportunities for sustainability projects, and explored improvements to campus energy dashboards. Other topics included state-mandated LED transitions and occupant comfort strategies in campus buildings. The meeting minutes are attached!

Our next meeting is November 12th, 3:30 - 4:30 PM.

At Friday's Illini Lights Out event, 2805 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $426 in energy costs.This prevented 3.9 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 438 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a huge impact! 

The Transportation iCAP Team had their first meeting for the fall semester! Exciting to review projects where they were left off and pick them back up. The minutes are attached. We introduced the projects for the year and discussed what next steps look like for them.

The attached PDF contains performance metrics for ZipCar usage on campus for September 2024. 

Sarthak gave Karina a brief introduction to the iCAP portal and a short training on how to edit or add a new project update and updating project metrics.

All, Manageable levels of busyness last week. I think our visit numbers have declined slightly, which makes sense for the time of year. Highlights of the week: Received a couple worthwhile direct donations. Fixed up a couple kids’ bikes. Had a student staff interview. Got a few B-a-Bs out the door. The law professor who’s into bikes has become a regular Friday volunteer.

The TBP Monthly Member meeting is tonight, which I will attend. This week is also the deadline for abandoned bike retrieval, so I will do a rough inventory of keep/scrap. We also may table at the Green Quad Day, if I have available staff since it overlaps with our open hours. Have a lot of loose wheels that are of questionable quality that we need to deal with, too.

The numbers:

Visitors: 82
Sales: 865.51
Bikes (B-a-B): 3 for $160
Memberships: 8 for $240
Tires/tubes: 11 for $112

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center

RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the September 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 1,086.9 Megawatt hours.

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

Total white: 520

Total red: 537

Alma Mater

White: 182

Red: 198

Ikenberry Commons

White: 155

Red: 164

Hellene Greenway

White: 183

Red: 175

All, Another busy week with the fun addition of Bike To Work Day and Light The Night. Haven’t seen the numbers yet but both events went well,  I believe. Friday was surprisingly slow here, which was great since I had staff out sick. We had a BTWD participant follow up and volunteer with us on Friday, which was great.

With the previously mentioned events out of the way, it’s on to prep for the abandoned bikes being released to us soon. Space is at a premium, so we’ll have to get creative and/or judicial in the bikes we utilize. Hope to get a few more bikes on the sales floor. We also already have one bike ready to go for our Kids Bike Giveaway.

The numbers:

Visitors: 103
Sales: $1,230
Bikes (B-a-B): 3 for $150
Memberships: 19 for $570
Tires/tubes: 25 for $187

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center

Please see attached the iWG meeting notes from the meeting held on Sept 24, 2024. The following items were discussed:

1. Review of progress toward Energy 2020 iCAP objectives

2. Review of proposed Energy 2025 iCAP objectives

Introduced new clerk and team members. The team brainstormed updates for the ‘24-’25 mission statement, with members assigned to bring suggestions to the next meeting. The second half covered team objectives for the year, including creating a green training program for employees, improving outreach to incoming students, running green-certified events, and increasing student participation in sustainability.

The seventh meeting from the planning team discussing Bike to Work Day and Light the Night post-event details and future events. 

Total Registrations: 1212

Location breakdowns:

Alma Mater: 359

Campus Bike Center: 79

Campus Disability Resources & Educational Services (DRES): 43

Campus National Soybean Research Center (NSRC): 31

Campus Orchard Downs: 62

Campus Recreation Center East (CRCE): 206

Campus Research Park: 102

Campus Vet Med: 19

Champaign Downtown: 78

Champaign Wolfram Research: 40

Mahomet Middletown: 10

Rantoul Downtown: 5

Savoy Recreation Center: 28

St. Joseph Downtown: 5

Urbana Brookens Center: 33

Urbana Downtown: 105

Sarthak sent out an email to all campus Bike to Work Day welcome stations to thank them for their work and participation in this event. All remaining t-shirts and swag would be returned to the MTD Training Facility on 09/19 between 2-6 pm. Special thanks to Paul Jensen and his team at F&S Public Functions who provided the tables, chairs, recycling, and trash for today’s event as well as the Housing department for providing food and refreshments to all eight campus welcoming stations.

Total volunteers: 40

Locations:

Alma Mater: 12

Hallene Gateway: 16

Ikenberry Commons Quad: 12