Green Attributes
This campus-wide initiative aims to define, delineate, and add naturalized landscaping features to Hamilton’s campus.
What is Green Attributes?
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. The project specified 5 land-use types:
- No Mow Zones - forest regeneration sites that are not actively managed
- Reforestation Plots - forest regeneration sites that are actively managed
- Wetlands and Drainage Sites - wetland habitat and stormwater management sites
- Low Mow Zones - open spaces with long grass maintained as field habitat
- Pollinator Habitat - open spaces with long grass maintained as field habitat with wildflowers seeded for pollinator
Map of Green Attributes
Why Protect These Spaces?
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
Maintenance Requirements
In Action
Contact
Contact Name
Brian Hansen
Director of Environmental Protection, Safety and Sustainability
