1. The End of the 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. 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

4. 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”

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

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

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”

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

12. SING A NEW SONG TO THE EARTH

13. SING A NEW SONG TO THE EARTH

14. SING A NEW SONG TO THE EARTH

15. RESTORING HOPE TO THE PEOPLE

16. 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

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

18. Restoring Hope to the People

19. MAY WE EACH DAY LOVE ONE ANOTHER

20. MAY WE EACH DAY CARE for the EARTH

21. GANEWSONGGANEWSONG TO THE EARTH Sing a New Song to the Earth

22. Restoring Hope To the People

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

24. SING A NEW SONG TO THE EARTH

27. 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)

28. Love One Another Care for the Earth

29. Thank You!

30. Micellaneous Slides

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

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