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The Green Spot
Eat, drink, and fill your tank without harming the environment! The Green Spot is the first of its kind Healthy Convenience store and gas station with regular unleaded gas, diesel gas blended with biodiesel and B100 biodiesel. The Green Spot offers healthy, organic, natural food and beverages as well as some personal care products. Also come to The Green Spot for organic and fair trade coffee, a natural soda fountain, fresh produce, sandwiches, farm fresh tacos for breakfast and lunch, fresh baked baguettes and more. The Green Spot utilizes eco-friendly cups and utensils made from corn plastic and other compostable materials and other eco-friendly supplies.
Sustainable Campus
North Lake College encourages a culture of environmental stewardship and the creation and enhancement of a learning and working environment that promotes success and wellness.
We believe that sustainability is good business practice. The right investment in the present will cause eco-efficiencies and derive future resource preservation.
Our sustainable practices are increasingly visible, and seek to engage our community in a growing awareness of environmental responsibility.
- North Lake's Native Garden provides a beautiful, hardy, drought-resistant, low maintenance landscape while benefiting the environment.
- All storm water at NLC is captured in our 3.5-acre lake and recycled for irrigation.
- Computer labs at NLC are all programmed to power down at the end of the day to conserve electricity.
- For the past 4 years, all new carpet at NLC is both made of post-consumer recycled content and sent for recycling during all replacement programs.