and ethics.

Environmental issues disregard borders and do not distinguish between race, sex, and religion. It influences every human being in every corner of the world and affects their life. Interestingly the same facts were the basis of the human genome project. The human genome is an information code and an operation system of the body. This global project was run to identify all genes in human DNA and to store this information as a basis for understanding, examining, preventing diseases and saving humanity. One of the major tools in the human genome was the building of a global bioinformatics database using mathematical and computer science methods and techniques to solve biological problems. However, since the genetic code is dynamic and the changes of the genes from generation to generation, noted as evolution, result in genetic variations, it is recognized that only a part of the population that suits to changes would survive. Sustainability, which can be defined as meeting the needs of today without damaging the needs and the rights of the next generations, bridges between human and nature body and soul, and combines intelligence, feeling, knowledge, love and care. The building blocks of sustainability are values. Hence, a global sustainability ethical code and conscience, i.e. sustainability genome, should be a basis for new standards of behavior and action. Like the human genome, the sustainability genome should also pass the test of evolution, following global changes, in order to survive.

Mapping of the sustainability genome will be based on intensification workshops and forms in formal and informal educational systems. It will be built on several circles, starting from each individual and local groups and growing to national and global vision. The information will be stored in an appropriate database and represented in a web site. As the human genome is inherited from parents to their children, education in the broad sense of the word, meaning endowing knowledge and conscience as well as imbuing thought and action is the main system to inherit the sustainability genome.

The program will be initiated by teaching the basics of sustainability: preservation of the rights of the coming generations, integrating into the life cycles and preserving natural balance by making educated use of resources. In addition the mutual relationships between environmental, economical and social aspects in our life will be revealed and discussed. Then the group would have to discuss the importance of having a sustainable code and what is the purpose of mapping of the sustainability genome. It is very important that the mission will be clear to every group's member. As the sustainability code is build from ideals and rules the group will first have to define new standards, acceptable and unacceptable behaviors and responsibilities. It will be done by comforting the participants with there own morals and exposing their individual attitude toward sustainability issues. Then the groups will have to build it's own sustainability code, organize their standards according to their importance, and find how they, as individuals, can make the difference. At the second stage the whole group would define both the scope and the sequence of their sustainability genome as well as different approaches to solutions. As every culture and natural world should be reflected in the global sustainability genome, the participants would be able to study about sustainability's issues and their conflicts all over the world, especially about nature's underlying processes, patterns and principles through the sustainability genome web site. At the final stage the group would have to decide how the code will be implemented and formulate a plan of action and change. The dynamic web site will support the mapping process, allowing every group to learn about other groups, communicate with them and upload its sustainable code and plan of action. The sustainable codes will be stored in an appropriate date base at the web site, enabling to map the global sustainable genome.

The sustainability genome workshops and web site will financed by Shamoon's College Green Processes Center. The project will be run all over the country together with several green movments such as The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and Sustinable Development for the Negev. Sami Shamoon College of Engineering was established in 1995. Today, the college has approximately 3,500 students studying for B.Sc at two campuses, Beer Sheva and Ashdod, in five departments: Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chemical Engineering with two majors in Process Industry and Biotechnology, Industrial Engineering and Management with additional major in Information Systems and Operation Systems, and Software Engineering. Shamoon College, whose main goals are academic excellence and bridging the gap between opportunity and prestige runs and develops advanced research centers with the cooperation of industries and integration into the international scientific community. Shamoon College was selected from over 60 colleges and universities in Israel to be granted the "Green Campus" Award by Israel's Ministry of Environmental Protection. Within one decade, Shamoon College has quickly become the major institute producing leaders in engineering, contributing not only to their professional fields but to the strengthening, advancement and sustainability of Israel’s south.

Shamoon's College Green Processes Center combines scientific and applied research of technological and social sustainable processes with imbuing these processes into industry, community and education. The Green Process Center’s aim is to lead the assimilation of sustainability in Israel. The center includes research in Green Engineering, Green Chemistry, clean technology, and computer simulation and the academic and community programs such as Green School, Green Campus, Sustainability for People, Green Engineering, and Environmental Code – the Green Ten Commandments.

Green School: a six-year, weekly program in local schools. Teachers also take part in suitable continuing education program. Classes combine indoor and outdoor activities as well as science and art. In parallel, we also established the Parent Green Forum as education starts at home.

Green Campus: Shamoon College as a model green campus which teaches environmental issues, involves the community in environmental aspects, acting toward reducing environmental consumption.

Sustainability for people: free afternoon course for the community that gives suitable background in chemistry, physics, biology, and environmental issues to examine the effect of modern life on our own health and on the environment. The course also teaches how to use sustainability in everyday life at home and outside.

Green Engineering: a course for engineering students. The students get different lectures about sustainability and green engineering and participate in different activities in the community as part of the course. The activities in the community are in primary schools in Beer Sheva and in Bedouin villages in the Negev.

Environmental code: the Green Ten Commandments: building and maintaining the Green Ten Commandment with various groups.