Green Attributes
This campus-wide initiative aims to define, delineate, and add naturalized landscaping features to Hamilton’s campus.
Green Attributes has accounted for and protected about 180 acres, or about 14% of our campus lands.
In an effort to reduce the school’s impact on the local environment and showcase the region’s natural beauty, the Green Attributes project was conceived and led in 2022 by a group of summer sustainability interns. The project aims to categorize different types of sustainable land use on campus, delineate these spaces, and find spaces to propose a land-use shift toward incorporating more of these naturalized spaces.
Map of Green Attributes
These little-to-large spaces, which are spread out all over campus do a lot toward making Hamilton’s campus more sustainable.
- Providing habitat for wildlife
- Reducing mowing fuel consumption
- Promoting native plant growth and biodiversity
- Increasing carbon capture and storage
- Providing food for pollinator populations
- Reducing stormwater runoff
Land-Use Types
The Green Attributes project specified 5 land-use types:
Forest regeneration sites; not actively managed
forest regeneration sites; actively managed
Maintenance Requirements
The flow chart below distinguishes between “no-mow” and “low-mow” maintenance distinctions and ranked loosely by total management requirements.
In Action
Contact
Contact Name
Brian Hansen
Director of Environmental Protection, Safety and Sustainability
