All,

Here is the list of goals/targets I compiled for todays meeting using Karl's 5-year-plan and our discussions.

Claire McConnell

Stacey,

The air pumps are installed at both locations.  I have attached a picture

James

Dear Al,

Attached please find a reply from the iCAP Working Group regarding the wind PPA process.

By the way, thanks so much for your participation in iSEE's Roundtable this week...sorry we didn't get a chance to chat!

Cheers,

Ben

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Professor Benjamin J. McCall

Associate Director for Campus Sustainability Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus-sustainability@illinois.edu

Dear iCAP Working Group,

First of all, I'd like to invite each of you to join us for the iCAP Forum from 1-4 pm on October 22 (Campus Sustainability Day), where the SWATeams will present their recommendations for the 2015 iCAP.  More details are appended below, along with a link to the RSVP form.  I hope you can join us!

Second, I attach the minutes from our last meeting.  I apologize for the delay in getting these to you, but iSEE has been swamped in the past few weeks as we hosted both a Congress on sustainable agriculture and a roundtable on sustainability education.  Please let us know by October 15 if you have any corrections.

Finally, I wanted to let you know that Morgan recommended separating the wind PPA process issue from the utilities master plan issue.  I took her advice, and sent the attached letter on the wind PPA process to Al Stratman today; I will follow up in ~10 days with a separate letter about the master plan.

Thanks again for your service on the working group!

Cheers,

Ben
 

Join us at iSEE’s iCAP Forum

What has the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus done to reach its Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) goals? Where have we fallen short? What’s next?

It’s time to update the iCAP, and we need input as we evaluate where we are — and where we want to be. The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) invites you to attend a iCAP Forum from 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 22 — Sustainability Day — in Illini Union Room 314B. The event is an opportunity for the Sustainability Working Advisory Teams (SWATeams) to seek public input on their proposed 2015 revisions to the 2010 iCAP, and for iSEE to recognize sustainability leaders on campus through the Certified Green Office Program and the Energy Conservation Incentive Program.

All faculty, staff, students and community members are invited to attend the forum and give valuable feedback to SWATeams. We need campuswide investment in the sustainability movement as we target ambitious goals here, including carbon neutrality by 2050. RSVP at http://bit.ly/1BIPn4K

Dear SWATeam Members,

First, I want to formally invite each of you to attend the iCAP Forum from 1-4 on October 22.  Below I append more details, along with an RSVP link.

Second, I wanted to remind you that your team's recommendations for the 2015 iCAP should be presented by one (or more) of you during this Forum.  Please let me know who will be presenting for your team.

Finally, please remember that the iCAP Working Group (iWG) requests your recommendations in written form by the end of October, using the format of the example chapter attached to this message.  The iWG will then synthesize the recommendations from all of the teams, along with the public input from the iCAP Forum, into a draft of the 2015 iCAP.  I expect we'll be sharing that draft with you all as soon as it's available to solicit your feedback.

Thanks again for all of your help as we plan for a more sustainable campus!

Cheers,

Ben
 

Hello all, 

Here is my summary of the meeting from Thursday, October 9th.

If you believe that I should change something, please let me know and I can do so.

Thanks,

Ben Cigelnik

see file

Japan House and the University of Illinois Arboretum request funding to provide bike racks. Although the Arboretum and Japan House are administered separately (Japan House through the College of Fine and Applied Arts, and the Arboretum through ACES, Japan House sits within the Arboretum and the two units often collaborate on projects.    There are currently no available bike racks in the 57-acre Arboretum and Japan House grounds. Japan House is the site of University classes and the Arboretum is frequently used as a resource for classes from units such as Landscape Architecture,  Crops Sciences, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and others. In addition, the Arboretum and the Japan House Gardens are a major recreational resource for Illinois students, faculty and staff, and yet currently, there is no bike parking or encouragement for students, faculty and staff to bike to reach these grounds. Currently, bikers are forced to lock bikes to benches, lampposts, trees, and other structures inappropriate for this use and sometimes permanently damaging to the trees or structures. The Japan House offices are located at the site and students routinely ask where they should lock up their bikes.   Funding is requested for the installation of two six-loop bike racks mounted on sufficient permeable pavement for easy access and grounds maintenance and relating biking policy signage.  

Dear Colleagues

Thanks for all your hard work.

Everyone made the deadline :-)

I have attached the compiled and edited draft of our recommendations and an agenda for today’s noon meeting

See you soon

Wojtek

Hi Energy Generation SWATeam,

I was looking at my records, and I came across this old biomass reference presentation.  I thought you may want to look into the current status of these projects.

Thanks,

Morgan

From: Lage, Stephanie M [mailto:spauldng@illinois.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:54 PM
To: swat-water@dib.illinois.edu
Subject: FW: Illinois Water Resources Small Grant RFP

FYI

From: lmorrisn@illinois.edu [mailto:lmorrisn@illinois.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:47 PM
To: Lage, Stephanie M
Subject: Illinois Water Resources Small Grant RFP

Good afternoon,

Yesterday afternoon, the question of how much carbon dioxide does an Enviropure unit produce was asked.  I’ve copied the information below from their website:

“According to the EPA and USCC, carbon dioxide emissions generated from the aerobic decomposition of food waste by systems such as the EnviroPure systems are considered to be “biogenic”. This means that our EnviroPure Systems and the carbon it returns to the environment are part of the natural carbon cycle and so it does not contribute to greenhouse gases and global warming.”

Please let me know if anyone has any further questions about the Enviropure units.  Also, please forward this information to other members of the swat team I may be missing.

Thank you,

Carol

Carol H. Strohbeck

Assistant Director of Dining Services, Equipment & Facilities

Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) Water Audit Webinar – Oct. 21 at 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. (web only)

“Water Use and Conservation on Illinois College Campuses: The Ripple Effect”

The Illinois Green Economy Network (IGEN) and the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) are partnering to train college faculty and staff to conduct water audits on their campuses, increasing knowledge about water on college campuses, and furthering ISTC’s goal of reducing water consumption in Illinois by One Billion Gallons. To do so, IGEN and ISTC will implement a three-phase program. In the first phase of the program, IGEN will cohost a webinar with ISTC to educate interested colleges on the basics of water audits. The webinar will cover the following information:

• Details of what a comprehensive water audit encompasses: the built environment, the campus landscaping, and the local topography/watershed;
• Where to find specific information on water use on a college campus: what bills, what departments have information, what is metered, etc.;
• Potential benefits of water audits: how to save money, water, and energy, and the environmental impacts; and
• Overview of the next phases of the program and how to participate.

Speakers will be: Megan Chery, Manager of Alliance for Water Efficiency; Aaron Dunbaugh, Director of Sustainability at Loyola University Chicago; and Michelle Maddaus, Founder and Civil Engineer with Maddaus Waste Management.

Please register to attend the webinar at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/154690976. For additional information visit http://www.igencc.org/node/1115.

In the second phase of the program, IGEN and ISTC will arrange regional training sessions at several Illinois community colleges to train stakeholders on how to conduct a comprehensive water audit on campus. In the third phase of the program, colleges will conduct water audits on their campuses and make recommendations that will reduce water consumption and apply for grants to implement the projects.

ISTC is a division of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dear Team:

Strategies 2 and 3 revised and attached.

After some research I find very little room for revision of the Spring revisions. Really just a minor bit of word smithing. 

We may want to explore more radical revisions but I didn’t attempt write those without group a discussion first.

~Rick Langlois

Hi All,

Attached is the addition of strategy 5. As we only briefly discussed this strategy and I am fairly new to the team I look forward to any and all feedback!

Thanks,

Justin

From: Jessica Mondello [ecoolympics@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 7:36 PM
Cc: Yeung, Brian Silu; Mondello, Jessica Rae; McConnell, Claire Ellen; Aj Unander; Canteiro Reis Sobral, Francisco; Jacoby, Rachel Aryn; Sun, Siyang; Kim, Christine H; Saerang, Estherlita Angelica; Ross, Karoline Jeanne; Foote, Gerard Paul
Subject: Eco-Olympics Meeting Recap

Hey guys!

I want to thank all of you who could make it the meeting. I'm so excited to see Eco-Olympics do bigger and better things this year!

Here is a short recap of what we discussed:

• Overview of Campus Conservation Nationals
• Establishing organization team
  • If you're interested in being apart of organizing, let me know what position/s you are interested in! Spread the word!
• Recruiting building captains
• Reaching out to RSOs
  • RSO sponsor a building
  • Individuals from RSO
• Talking in front of relevant classes
• Speaking to RAs or other leaders on campus
• BOTH WANT TO HELP US!!
• They both have a huge following on campus and will be a great resource
• APO Service Fraternity and Student Sustainability Committee

Attached to this email:

• Position descriptions/responsibilities
  • These are just examples of things you could do.
• An information sheet that can be sent to RSOs/interested folks

As of now, the next meeting will be October 20, 2014 at 8 PM in the UGL.

Thanks again!

Jessica Mondello

Eco-Olympics | President

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yN7bIgVpVcZ4Sq_Hw1huagFsPo6MJVCr6zFs...

Water team,

I've added comments (as stickies) to the iCAP plan, relative to the additional emphasis, targets, and strategies on storm water. These can be transferred to another form, if we are coordinating in another way. 

Thanks, see you tomorrow!

Mary Pat

Hello, SWATeam and Consultation Group.  Here is a draft of our section for the new iCAP, reflecting our discussions, our report last week, and Casey's work.  Please review and send me comments by Thursday at noon.  I will then prepare a revised draft and send it out for your review prior to our meeting next Monday at 4:30 pm.

Thanks and best wishes.

Warren Lavey

Attached are the revisions for Strategy 1. I did some major cutting in transitioning from the original version and presented the items we’ve discussed (and added a couple of others as well) essentially as the new strategy for moving forward. - Pete Varney

Hi all,

Our first meeting will be tomorrow 4-5pm in room 358, National Soybean Research Center. Hope to see you all!

Best Regards,

David Gu