The theme of Women’s Worlds 2011 is “Inclusions, exclusions, and seclusions: Living in a globalized world”. Why? Where globalization and women are concerned, provocative questions abound:

• Does globalization include, exclude, and/or seclude women?
• As global hierarchies realign, how are gender roles and identities evolving?
• How are social identifications like power, privilege, citizenship, and nation affected?

Ours is an increasingly integrated world – one where boundaries are shifting under growing flows of capital, goods, power … and people. Who and where we are as individuals and communities becomes less clear within this contemporary, globalized context.

Around the world, women are grappling with changing political, cultural, economic, social, and environmental realities. And the effects of numerous crises – be they economic, ecological, or health-related – intensify obstacles to women’s equality.

Globalization has contributed to the destabilization and marginalization of women and communities. Yet certain consequences have yielded positive results for women. Globalization has meant enhanced communications and organizing – trans-national connectivity that must be deepened as women’s organizations and networks struggle to sustain themselves and maintain resilience in the face of forces that oppose women's equality.

Women’s Worlds 2011 will be a place for the exploration of these complex matters through reflection, learning, and sharing a variety of ideas and experiences – especially those of women most deeply affected.

Sustainable Saskatchewan: Building Sustainable Connections with a focus on Sustainable Business,  Food and Farming and Sustainable Community

Featuring 15 breakout sessions and three Plenary Speakers:

Opening Plenary March 3, 2010   Sustainable Success

Michelle Long is the co-founder of Sustainable Connections, an organization that 7 years later now boasts nearly 700 Washington state local, independent businesses working to transform and model an economy built on sustainable practices. Programs include a Think Local First campaign that has altered the purchasing behaviour of 3 in 5 households, a Food & Farming program that leads to hundreds of new regional food contracts and the launch of new farms each year, a Green Building program, an Energy program that has resulted in the top EPA certified green power community in the U.S., and a Sustainable Business Development program.

Opening Plenary March 4, 2010  Global Food Outlook 2020

As challenges and innovations in food production and distribution become more resolutely global in the coming decade, different regions will bring a diversity of unique issues, strategies, and strengths to the table. To better understand this changing picture, the Institute for the Future based in Palo Alto California has conducted a series of expert workshops and interviews in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. They have synthesized these learning's with other research efforts to create a forecasting map. The Global Food Outlook: 2020 (Map of the Decade) presents their findings along with the forces that are driving change and the trends emerging as a result, in a graphically designed format. Presenter Miriam Lueck Avery is currently working on projects around the intersection of food and agriculture, human health and well-being, and community sustainability and resilience. In examining the unfolding relationship between wellness and sustainability, she has been working her way along the food chain from purchasing decisions to climate and agricultural science, and along health efforts from self-care to participatory public health.

Closing Plenary March 4, 2010 Choosing a Better Way Up

When Things are Looking Down David Chernushenko advocates that times of economic uncertainty are the best time to shift direction, based on an honest evaluation of community and corporate values. When things start to stabilize again, often we have made a leap forward to a bright new (potentially green) future.

David is a “green building” professional accredited by the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification program. As owner of the consulting firm Green & Gold, he has advised public, private, and non-profit organizations on adopting more sustainable and socially responsible practices. David is currently producing the Living Lightly Project, whose goal is to share the stories, solutions and passion of a growing movement of people working to build a rich future for all on a healthy planet. A self described Practical Radical, David played a leading role in "greening the Olympics" and is Vice Chair of Canada's National Round Table on the Environment and Economy.

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