photo credit: Student Housing and Hospitality Services

Walter Gage Residence is a winter-session only residence that houses upper-year students throughout the academic year.

Some cool sustainability features at Gage include a newly renovated apartments, controllable thermostats, and floor to ceiling windows to maximize natural light. Composting pick-up is available at Gage: simply empty your compost into the large green bins labelled “organics” in the basement of your building where recycling can also be sorted. Beginning in September 2011, every suite in Gage will be provided with a small composting bin as part of residents’ room inventory.

Suite-style residences currently have an Residence Life Manager-run sustainability committee. Last year, they put on events such as a green cleaning workshop, a stuff swap, and the Green Star pledge, where roommates could pledge to three or more sustainable behaviours to stick to throughout the year.