Spring 2018 Semesterly Report Submitted to the Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) on behalf of INNER VOICES.

Hi Pete and Shawn—

[This past week, there were] just a few emails, including one from the BER student volunteers. I had sent them a spreadsheet showing departments that were not yet participating in the glove recycling program but had $2,000 or more in nitrile glove purchases this year. They identified contacts for each department and will do some outreach when the fall semester begins. 

Best regards,
Marya Ryan
Zero Waste Coordinator

The Solar Farm 2.0 site selection committee's recommendation was approved by the Chancellor's Capital Review Committee. 

SSC approved the Zero Waste Coordination scope change request to extend the funding agreement by one year.

Davey Tree's staff person is averaging 214 trees per day.  He started at University Avenue and is working his way south.  Currently he is at Armory Avenue.  Depending on the number of trees on campus, he could be done by the end of September.

Hi Pete and Shawn—

Zero-waste activities for the past were 

• Prepared and sent a scope and timeline request to SSC for the zero-waste projects. The request was granted, so we have one more year (through July 31, 2019) to spend the rest of the SSC funding on outdoor dual bins (geNng estimates and using remaining funds for the bins themselves)
• Drafted a spring 2018 semester report for SSC and sent it to Morgan for review.
• Investigated bounced email to our Kimberly-Clark contact, Jonathan McClintock. I’m seeing if he still works there and is still our contact for RightCycle. 

Best regards,
Marya Ryan
Zero Waste Coordinator

The City of Urbana has partnered with the Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA) and the Grow Solar Partnership to coordinate a second solar group buy in Champaign County, building on the success of Solar Urbana-Champaign, which took place from December 2015 through June of 2016. The advantage of a group buy is the power of volume purchasing, which can significantly reduce the up-front costs of installing solar on your home or business. You do not need to be a City of Urbana resident to participate – the group buy is open to all Champaign County residents and business owners.

Hi Pete and Shawn—

Here are the zero-waste activities for the week: Morgan, Brent Lewis, and I met with Shawn Hopkins of Bigbelly to discuss possibilities for indoor bins. 

• I responded some emails about styrofoam recycling.
• I participated in a CURC listserv discussion about conveyor belt sorting systems. I asked Morgan about any pictures, videos, schematics, and data we might be able to share,
• I drafted a semesterly report and scope-and-timeline change request for the SSC funding to see if they can give us another year and if we can focus the remaining funds on replacing the outdoor bins with dual bins. Morgan has the draft to review. 
• I responded to an inquiry from La Casa Cultural Latina about participating in the glove recycling program. 

Best regards,
Marya Ryan
Zero Waste Coordinator

Here is an update on the progress of the tree inventory. Tree Count - 1,117

Progress

I began on the north side of campus as we discussed in our kickoff meeting, and have started working south. I have completed most everything north of Green St. I will continue to work my way south next week. See attached file.

Next week I will also start to do some data quality checks and will include some of that reporting in these update emails. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Reid Gibson, Project Manager, Davey Resource Group, ISA Certified Arborist/Municipal Specialist, IL-5319AM ISA, Tree Risk Assessment Qualified

Bevier Cafe submitted their semesterly report for their Indoor Herb Garden project.

The annual usage of electricity at the Idea Garden shed is much lower than the proposed solar array will provide.  Because this building is currently powered by Ameren and not connected to the campus electrical grid, there will be a loss of any kilowatt-hours not used during the course of one year.