The Community's Purpose 
To allow motivated students the opportunity to more intentionally learn about and promote environmental responsibility, sustainable practices, and Christian stewardship-at the local, national, and global level. Through various programs, seminars, and social events, students will learn from each other and Calvin faculty and staff, building unity and fellowship while living on campus. Residents will develop and promote strategies for living more compassionately toward and affirming of the creation, and in so doing, work to bring positive change within Residence Life and the greater Calvin community.
Residents of the floor will commit to the following
- Attendance at floor meetings at least twice monthly
- Participation in floor learning and social events at least twice monthly
- Participation in development of additional involvement expectations and evaluation processes for the community.
- A lifestyle that reflects a commitment to creation care within the context of a residence hall community.
Is this community for me?
For many years, a student organization called the Environmental Stewardship Coalition has existed to promote issues of stewardship and environmental justice on our campus. Beginning in the Fall of 2008, students desiring to more intentionally learn and live out these types of principles will have this community to consider. The Creation Care Living-Learning Community, located in the new wing of Kalsbeek-Huizenga, hopes to embody the same types of goals as the student organization, but to involve more first and second-year students.
While students across campus, in all residence halls, are encouraged to learn about environmental stewardship, the new living-learning community will be a place of 
focused attention and intentionality. Advised by faculty members Gail Heffner and Dave Warners, the floor will spend time each month reading and discussing a book on sustainable living by professor David Koetje. Other faculty and staff will be invited to speak to the students as well, and the floor will be a place for students across campus to visit for some of the special programming that will happen there. In addition, funds will be provided so that students on the floor can assist in the development of better education and practice in all of Calvin’s residence halls.
The floor of 40 will be made up of both men and women (on separate halves of the floor), with the common lounge in the middle serving as a place of discussion, learning, fellowship, and fun. Other learning spaces in the building, as well as the presence of other living-learning communities, will promote campus involvement and student learning. Students interested in taking an additional step of engagement in the their housing options should consider applying. Space will be limited in order to balance men and women, and first- and second-year students.