Sustainability
The Office of Sustainability at UW-Milwaukee assesses, supports, and drives sustainability initiatives across campus operations, student life, and throughout academic affairs. By building campus and community collaborations, integrating sustainability into campus planning initiatives, assessing impacts over the long term, and working from our own sense of place and purpose, UW-Milwaukee manages its resources wisely and makes sustainability relevant to its access and research mission. We do this through a range of operations, programs, and initiatives focused on:
- Recycling
- Surplus and Reuse
- Local Food Systems
- Campus Gardens
- Green Infrastructure
- Composting
- Upstream Purchasing
- Campus Engagement
- Student Empowerment
- Natural Landscaping
- Water Stewardship
- Waste Stream Diversion
- Energy Conservation
- Renewable Energy
- Alternative Transportation
- Green Buildings
This virtual StoryMap will lead you on a self-guided tour, allowing you to explore sustainable features on campus.
Each year, the Office of Sustainability publishes an Annual Report.
We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.
Listen and watch the Land Acknowledgement here, and learn more by visiting the Electa Quinney Institute website.