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The End of the Beginning

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.”. Vision: “A World where the gulf between the‘haves’ and the

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The End of the Beginning

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  1. The End ofthe Beginning

  2. “Vision”: A world in which our scientific and technological breakthroughs are utilized to benefit the health, safety, security, and community of all people.”

  3. Vision: “A World where the gulf between the‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ is closed up through more equitable global sharing of knowledge and resources”

  4. “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” 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!

  5. Vision: “Sustainable Agricultural & Food Systems with sufficient Diversity & Resiliency to Adapt to Uncertain Natural and Social Stresses.”

  6. Vision : “Making small farms more profitable so farmers will retain their land rather than selling it for development.” Equinox CSA Lincoln, Nebraska

  7. 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.”

  8. June 1990, Warsaw, Poland; Farmers take over Agriculture Ministry Banners: “Protest of Peasants”- “No Freedom without Justice”

  9. OUR CHALLENGE Charting a course towards Sustainability by Translating Science into Practice

  10. SING A NEW SONG TO THE EARTH

  11. SING A NEW SONG TO THE EARTH

  12. SING A NEW SONG TO THE EARTH

  13. RESTORING HOPE TO THE PEOPLE

  14. WE are the OLD WE are the YOUNG WE are the PAST WE are the FUTURE OUR LIVES a FOUNDATION For a NEW WORLD to COME

  15. SING A NEW SONG TO THE EARTH People who farmed sustainably for over 40 centuries now lose 18 lbs of farmable soil for every 1 lb of food eaten

  16. Restoring Hope to the People

  17. MAY WE EACH DAY LOVE ONE ANOTHER

  18. MAY WE EACH DAY CARE for the EARTH

  19. G A NEW S O N G Sing a New Song to the Earth TO THE EARTH

  20. Restoring Hope To the People

  21. FOR EACH DAY CREATION BEGINS ANEW SING A NEW SONG TO THE EARTH

  22. SING A NEW SONG TO THE EARTH

  23. 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)

  24. Love One Another Care for the Earth

  25. Thank You!

  26. Micellaneous Slides

  27. “Test kit has facilitated partnerships between farmers and ag specialists”

  28. “, whether there are woods to walk in and streams to splash in”

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