Book of Abstracts
11th IFOAM
Scientific Conference
11-15 August 1996
Copenhagen, Denmark

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Practicing that which is Preached F13

Crowder, Robert, A.

Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand

Across the western world isolated pockets of holistic thinking began to accumulate fundamentalistic principles and justify them into scientific credibility through the eatablishment of organic research centres and organisations increasingly globally linked through the development of IFOAM.

Driven by increasingly concerning environmental issues and global disasters, the power of the people has slowly brought into question the credibility of science and technology and created a demand for a different pathway of progress which has increasingly caught the imagination of commerce even while the grass roots of production, formal education and much of science has languished in the age old paradigm.

This paper explores these issues from the standpoint of education and extension within the existing paradigm from a personal perspective at a tertiary institution. It examines the successes, failures and compromises and the relevence of the emergence from the establishment of, "Latter Day Saints of environmentalism", as an answer to the global environmental crisis.