Green Campuses | Gateway Technical College

Gateway’s campuses and centers offer many great eco-friendly features – both inside and outside! By focusing our efforts on saving energy, reducing our carbon footprint, recycling more and wasting less, while also encouraging an appreciation for nature, we are helping to do our part in creating a greener, cleaner, happier world.

Green Buildings

Gateway reduces the environmental impacts of our buildings on campus by using LEED Silver, participating in energy audits, upgrading facilities, improving lighting and water efficiency, using chemicals only when necessary, saving energy by centralizing room scheduling and maintaining stormwater control.

Pike Creek Horticultural Center on the Kenosha Campus

Pike Creek Horticulture Center

Gateway’s Greenhouse Operations program is housed in Gateway’s state-of-the-art Pike Creek Horticulture Center that teaches students to care for plants in greenhouses and innovative labs.

Brookhouse Arboretum

The Pike Creek Horticulture Center also includes an arboretum consisting of 54 trees selected by professional horticulturists based on native character and novelty.

Natural Areas

There are one-acre native prairie plantings on the Racine, Elkhorn and Kenosha campuses and extensive natural areas around the Center for Sustainable Living.

Nature Trail

A ¼ mile Nature Discovery Trail on campus includes five stations with activities involving solar energy, recycling and composting, birds, trees and insects. This trail is available for field trips.

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