The Cruze Barn was moved as part of the agreement with the Student Sustainability Committee for their funding support of the first solar farm. It was moved by Trillium Dell, and it is now located at 316 Leman Lane, Congerville, IL.
A status report on the Red Oak Rain Garden project by Team Leader Eliana Brown.
Hi Pete and Shawn--
This week's zero waste activities were
Best regards,
Marya Ryan
Champaign County Master Gardeners present Children's Intro to Butterflies on Sat., July 20, 9:15 or 10:30 a.m., at the Idea Garden on S. Lincoln Ave. in Urbana. Ages 5-9. Limited to 24 per session. We will begin with a short educational lesson on butterfly anatomy, metamorphosis, and identification. They will then paint a flower pot to take home. https://go.illinois.edu/ButterflyProgram
Tabitha Elder . Cooperative Extension Service
All,
Last week was truncated a bit by the long holiday weekend. We were only open Mon – Wed.
I trained a new employee last week and had her start. I was also informally notified that two current staffers will most likely step away from working here at CBC in the next few weeks. The timing worked out pretty well with the two new staffers coming on board. That should get me through the remaining summer months.
Two bikes left on the bike rack outside when I got in this morning, so that’s still helping.
This week I’ll be doing more training with the new staffers, schedule and hold a staff meeting for my team, and the regular schedule of organizing, cleaning, and building.
Thanks!
Numbers:
Visitors: 51
Sales: $371
Bike (refurb): 1 for $200
Membership: 3 for $90
Tires/tubes: 6 for $28
Jacob Benjamin
Manager, Campus Bike Center
The attached file is the current waste data tracking system at the F&S Waste Transfer Station on campus.
Hello Pete and Shawn--
There were no zero waste activities this past week.
Best regards,
Marya Ryan
Here are the winners for the 2018 ECIP Awards!
| Occupant Action | % Improvement | Incentive Award |
| 1. Turner Hall | 21.8% | $103,130 |
| 2. Art and Design Building | 19.9% | $37,816 |
| 3. Burrill Hall | 19.8% | $57,518 |
| Energy Advancement | % Improvement | Incentive Award |
| 1. Coordinated Science Laboratory | 47.2% | $84,308 |
| 2. Seitz Materials Research Laboratory | 44.4% | $91,537 |
| 3. Loomis Laboratory of Physics | 40.7% | $25,717 |
| 4. Harker Hall | 38.0% | $10,000 |
Here are some references, provided by Eric Benson, on recycled paper/environmentally sourced recycled paper.
https://re-nourish.org/paper-printing-ink-tips/
What if we gave email addresses to our campus trees? https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/when-you-give-a-tree-an-email-address/398210/
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the June 2019 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 1,657.8 Megawatt hours. See attached file.
The new version of LEED (v.4) requires shower facilities for bicyclists as a pre-requisite. The LEED point is described online at https://www.usgbc.org/credits/neighborhood-development-plan-neighborhood-development/v4-draft/sllc4.
Please see attached the VeoRide ridership data for June 2019.
These are the meeting minutes of the July 2, 2019 Illinois Climate Action Plan Working Group. Several SWATeam recommendations were assessed in this meeting.
Hi Pete and Shawn--
There were no zero-waste activitites this past week.
Best regards,
Marya Ryan
Event features a diverse group of researchers, educators, journalists and activists discussing cutting-edge issues surrounding sustainability and social justice, building bridges across different approaches, disciplines and geographies, and charting new directions to a sustainable, just future. Free attendance, but registration is required; instructors are invited to contact us to bring classes.
Registration Opens for iSEE Congress 2019 -- 'Sustainability Justice'
Tony Mancuso . Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE)
The evaluation committee has selected a preferred vendor to develop Solar Farm 2.0, and the Chancellor's office approved moving forward with contract development. PEI will work with this vendor to complete the next steps of the award process. The vendor name will be announced upon approval of the contracts in fall 2019.
Hi Pete and Shawn--
There were no zero waste activities this past week on my part. Morgan White submitted the semester report for zero waste coordination to SSC and noted that the dual bins have been ordered for installation at a handful of locations around campus. She anticipates that they will be installed this fall.
Best regards,
Marya Ryan
All, Last week was comfortably busy. We had all-stands-full for a few days but no waiting patrons. A few build-a-bikes have been started, which is welcome. Shop builds are humming along, more or less. A new sign-in computer should be arriving this week. Donations are still coming in fairly regularly. We’ve got a stockpile of 10 or so kids bikes that I’ll aim to take to Salt & Light this week.
We built up and donated a bike to Campus Recreation Intramurals last week.
The students covered for me during my staff retreat on Friday. There was only one or two minor hiccups and they were my fault.
This week I’ll game plan for more volunteer tasks, do some long-overdue sorting, organizing, and purging in the new-stock area, safety check shop builds, and set up a July staff meeting for my team.
Numbers:
Visitors: 78
Sales: $683.50
Bike (refurb): 2 for $290
Build-a-Bike: 1 for $30
Memberships: 5 for $150
Tire/tube: 6 for $34
Thanks!
- Jake
Hi Pete and Shawn--
There were no zero waste activities this past week.
Best regards,
Marya Ryan
