the end of the beginning. “vision”: a world in which our scientific and technological...
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The End of the Beginning
“Vision”: A world in which our scientific and technological breakthroughs
are utilized to benefit the health, safety, security, and community of all people.”
through more equitable global sharing of
knowledge and resources”
Vision: “A World where the gulf between the‘haves’ and the
‘have-nots’ is closed up
To ‘profit’ from nature, we strip the land bare letting soil wash to the sea -- Undoing in hours what has taken centuries to build!
To ‘profit’ from nature, we strip the land bare letting soil wash to the sea -- Undoing in hours what has taken centuries to build!
“A new vision for agriculture, one that equally balances our needs to increase agricultural productivity, protect natural ecosystems, and
improve the quality of our air, soils, and waters”
Vision: “Sustainable Agricultural& Food Systems with sufficient Diversity & Resiliency toAdapt to Uncertain Natural andSocial Stresses.”
Equinox CSA
Lincoln, Nebraska
Vision : “Making small farms more profitable so farmers will retain their land rather than
selling it for development.”
Vision: “A World where family farmers are paid sufficiently for the commodities they produce--
food, fiber, improved soil, water, and air quality, and wildlife habitat.
So They can AFFORD investments in NEW TECHNOLOGIES and CONSERVATION
to make it all SUSTAINABLE.”
June 1990, Warsaw, Poland; Farmers take over Agriculture Ministry
Banners: “Protest of Peasants”- “No Freedom without Justice”
OUR CHALLENGE
Charting a course
towards Sustainability
by
Translating Science into Practice
SING A NEW SONG
TO THE EARTH
SING A NEW SONG
TO THE EARTH
SING A NEW SONG TO THE EARTH
RESTORING HOPE TO THE PEOPLE
WE are the OLD WE are the YOUNG
WE are the PAST WE are the FUTURE OUR LIVES a FOUNDATIONFor a NEW WORLD to COME
SING A
NEW SONG
TO THE
EARTH
Restoring Hope to the People
MAY WE EACH DAY LOVE ONE ANOTHER
MAY WE EACH DAY
CARE for the EARTH
G
A
NEW
SONG
TO THE EARTH
Sing a New Song to the Earth
RestoringHope To the People
SING A
NEW SONG
TO THE
EARTH
FOR EACH DAY
CREATION
BEGINS ANEW
SING A NEW SONG TO THE EARTH
Achieving Global Sustainability
• What can I do,
I’m only one person?
• Change must come
from within ourselves.
• We must be the change that we want in
the world! (Mahatma Gandhi)
Love One Another
Care for the Earth
Thank
You!
Micellaneous Slides
“Test kit has facilitated partnerships between
farmers and ag specialists”
“, whether there are woods to walk in andstreams to splash in”