1. Women and Sustainability
Heidi Livingston Eisips
Executive Director, Green Tech Academy
Jerusalem  March 19, 2012

2. Welcome! As a woman I have no country;
As a woman my country is the whole world
-- Virginia Woolf

3. Headlines
Women’s Empowerment Is Central to Global Sustainability, Says New UN Report
Posted on February  | News
Symposium on Environmental Affairs
What do women have to do with sustainability?
Sunday, October 12, 2008, 2:07 PM
By Shelby Wood, The Oregonian
A Sustainability Mystique for Women?
The female perspective can provide leadership to the sustainability movement.
APRIL 28, 2011 by Cynthia Figge
Commission on the Status of Women • New York
26 February 2008
WOMEN’S COMMISSION PANELS…
RECOGNIZES WOMEN’S CONTRIBUTIONS, SUPPORTS THEIR ECONOMIC RIGHTS
Warning that there could be no sustainable development if women and girls were left behind…
AllAfrica.com:
Liberia: Rural Women Strive for Sustainability
The Informer (Monrovia) 16 MARCH 2012

4. Sustain: Dictionary definition
To maintain.
To provide for.
To support.
To encourage.
To withstand.
To keep up competently.

5. Sustainability: Today’s definition
“meeting our needs today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”
Social
Justice
Environment
Economy

6. Vocation where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need
~ Frederick
Beuchner
Passion
Vocation
World Need
Strength

7. World Needs Water Education Population Growth Deforestation
Climate Change
Energy
Soil Depletion
Air Pollution
World Hunger
Poverty
Health
Biodiversity