Check the Community Resilience Building website. It has some interesting materials and reports.

Here is the link: https://www.communityresiliencebuilding.com/

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The Business Instructional Facility (BIF) was designed for future use of greywater, which is either recaptured water or raw (untreated) water. Although the building is fed from the potable water supply, there is separate piping for the restroom facilities and similar greywater-viable systems in the building. Data from about potential use of greywater can be very valuable for campus and others to know how much water can a building use for flushing toilets, comparing to the potable water we actually need, such as drinking water. In spring 2017, members of the Water SWATeam submitted a proposal about implementing a real-time water meter to the Student Sustainability Committee, and it got approved. They are working with Facilities & Services (F&S) to purchase the real-time meter and install it. Then this data will be made available publicly, so the students can use them for research or different sustainability questions. 

Hello all,

Here are my updates from last week:

• Met with Morgan to learn how to enter information into the iCAP portal. I plan to update zero waste coordination activities in the coming week.
• Received campus maps from Morgan so that I can start mapping the existing locations of outdoor trash bins. This information will help inform decisions about where to locate dual bins.
• Reviewed recommendations from the PWR SWATeam regarding battery recycling, the need to implement the draft CAM paper purchasing policy, and a recycling component of the campus ethics training video.

Sincerely,

Marya Ryan
Zero Waste Coordinator

The PWR SWATeam submitted a recommendation to the iWG stating, "Publishing the Ethics Compliance Video concerning recycling including the paragraph summary." 

See attached the SWATeam recommendation PWR010 Ethics Video complete with comments from all the PWR SWATeam members.

The PWR SWATeam submitted a recommendation to the iWG stating, "The campus should implement the approved paper policy draft in order to increase required recycled paper content."

See attached the SWATeam recommendation PWR009 Paper Policy complete with comments from all the PWR SWATeam members.

The PWR SWATeam submitted a recommendation to the iWG stating, "The campus should continue battery recycling. Whether this be department drive through the use of outside programs or a comprehensive effort, battery recycling should be a priority."

See attached the SWATeam recommendation PWR008 Battery Recycling complete with comments from all the PWR SWATeam members.

The eGen SWATeam submitted a recommendation to the iWG stating, "Start a project to expand the existing Solar farm, or install a new large scale solar installation in a new location."

See attached the SWATeam recommendation EGen007 Solar Farm 2.0 complete with comments from all the eGen SWATeam members.

On the agenda at the ECBS SWATeam meeting:

1) Follow up from April 14 Illini Lights Out;

2) Reports from success of Eco-Olympics;

3) Continued discussions on Karl’s work with ACES and other buildings;

4) Energy efficiency standard for UIUC;

5) Dr. Ximing Cai, new Associate Director for Campus Sustainability came to meet the team;

6) SWATeam next meeting time and date:  May 11th, from 3:30 to 5 pm. 

Attached are the results with the closing letter. 

The Purhcasing, Waste, and Recycling SWAT Team met to disucss topics including the ethics compliance video and battery recyling. The SWAT Team decided on three recommendations to make to the Associate Director of Campus Sustainability, Ximing Cai. These reccomendations include: 

1. Promoting the Ethics Compliance Video with a written summary

2. Implement the approved Paper Policy draft

3. Continue battery recycling on campus 

The SWAT Team also discussed efforts to increase recycling/lower the use of paper on campus. One avenue the team considered is urging RSOs to use less paper to promote their activities during Quad Day. 

Attached are the meeting minutes from the first meeting of the Joint Task-Force for Resilience held on 04/07/2017. Also attached is a copy of the slides presented by Professor Madhu Khanna.