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Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment
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Publisher's Summary
Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger problem, he warns, is our mismanagement of resources. Livestock grazing is not the problem; it's how we graze livestock. If we don't change the way we approach land management, irreparable harm from climate change could continue long after we replace fossil fuels with environmentally benign energy sources.
Holistic management is a systems-thinking approach for managing resources, developed by Savory decades ago after observing the devastation of desertification in his native Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Properly managed livestock are key to restoring the world's grassland soils, the major sink for atmospheric carbon, and minimizing the most damaging impacts on humans and the natural world.
This audiobook updates Savory's paradigm-changing vision for reversing desertification, stemming the loss of biodiversity, eliminating fundamental causes of human impoverishment throughout the world, and climate change. Reorganized chapters make it easier for listeners to understand the framework for holistic management and the four key insights that underlie it.
This long-anticipated new edition is written for new generations of ranchers, farmers, ecological and social entrepreneurs, and development professionals working to address global environmental and social degradation. It offers new hope that a sustainable future for humankind and the world we depend on is within reach.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-04-2019
Very informative
Fantastic information, very well set out with the Holistic management framework on the PDF to support the book
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- Anonymous User
- 09-09-2018
food for thought!!
I feel a better way of looking at a vast majority of problems with the world today.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-06-2018
Important stuff
Great book giving hope to all about the possibilities that agriculture and in particular the management of agriculture can provide answers to global issues around global warming and and providing safe profitable food and fiber.
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- Anonymous User
- 31-07-2018
An Environmental/Agricultural leadership must!
This book breaks down some seriously damaging myths about environmental management. Having studied Environmental science 10 years ago and again now, I hadn't come across his ideas in mainstream science. BUT, they should be taught to all Environmental and Agriculture majors throughout the world. This book is a game changer.
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- Wixy
- 13-01-2020
Changing my world
Everyday I see the inspiring and powerful results of implementing a Holistic Management Plan. Helps enable me to predict what actions I need to take to get to where I want to be in the future.
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- Kyle Thomas
- 23-07-2019
this wonderful knowledge needs mastered.
The information in this work is splendid. There are hisses that can be startling and painful when the volume is high in order to hear the quiet speech throughout.
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- Shawn Oueinsteen
- 28-10-2018
Ideas To Save the the World, Told Poorly
Savory's ideas about regenerative agriculture and how to do it are what all humans need to hear. But it would have helped if he had used a professional recording studio. He also could be less wordy and boring.
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- J. Casey Bourgeois
- 21-07-2020
Personally can barely get through the narration.
This is an incredibly important book, but for me personally I find the narration impossible to stay focused on. It might just be me, but something about the narrator's voice and accent, It takes so much effort to listen. I'm constantly hitting rewind because I've spaced out and I'm thinking of other things. It's unfortunate because this book is a vital resource. Get the paper book!
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- GiGi
- 24-06-2020
Amazing book, really bad recording
At first I thought it was the app skipping back for some odd reason. Then realized it was actually bad editing of the recording. there are quite numerous times in the book when it just repeats itself from a few words to a whole 5 min( maybe even more( I think it was chapter 19, when he was talking about elephants.
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- Eric
- 05-12-2018
Everyone should read this!
This book is an an example of what happens when a man has ideas and collaborates with openness, curiosity and love to see them developed. Allan Savory, by regularly collaborating to improve his management process has shown us all what the collective intelligence can do that individual cannot. We can regenerate our land and reverse climate change.
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- George Walker
- 03-08-2018
Wonderful
This is the direction we need to move, it makes compete sense. We are moving full steam ahead with holistic management on our farm.
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- J. Oddo
- 12-07-2018
Inspiring
Very inspiring. Well read. It provides a systematic framework for making decisions and monitoring decisions made. It is applicable to agriculture, people's personal lives, and urban America. This management system has potential to bridge the rural/urban gap that is present in America.
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- J. Reimer
- 18-05-2018
A Real Epiphany
As a learning farmer I was encouraged that so much quality of food and life can come from modest places. Allen casts a practical vision based on "wholeness." This is really brilliant!!
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- HAWKWAGON
- 22-12-2020
Regenerate the world
Throughout Allan's life he has learned the techniques to rebuild soil. That is the key to everything, and this book can show us how to save the human population from itself.
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- Jordan
- 02-10-2020
An amazing journey through a new paradigm of thinking
This book was a very easy listen for such large scale thinking of how to redesign our worlds. From business, to the farm, taking these principles of wholistic management into your daily life, and your overall planning, would serve you wise. The narrator, along with sections from Savory, were easy to hear, and understand, even at 1.7x speed. I can’t wait to purchase more books from savory and continue to apply these principles to every area of life.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-12-2019
By far best land management book worldwide!
Great resource for everyone! didn't expect to find a budgeting section, which is great. Allan really covers it all, extremely well delivered. the narrator is amazing and allans own voice fills in voids which adds great depth
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-01-2019
A blueprint to save the Earth
A truly inspired book that needs the very widest circulation to reverse ecological damage to the Earth.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-03-2020
A 'Must Listen'
If only our world leaders and farmers adopted the practices outlined in this book ... The contents of this book give me hope for our future, thank you to Allan, his team and to all of the farmers working to save our planet. Thank you.
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- Drew L-J
- 24-07-2020
A very important book.
Whether you are in food production or not, read this book. it will change your viewpoint.
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- rabbittibbar
- 08-06-2020
read it right away!
compulsory reading for anyone who's decisions and actions have a profound impact on the lives of others. actually that's practically everyone. should be on the curriculum regardless of the chosen field of study or vocational training. a compendium of how to do things right. an important book for the world. very well done.
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- Mr A J Spicer
- 01-03-2019
Too good to be true
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2017-2-march-april/feature/allan-savory-says-more-cows-land-will-reverse-climate-change "If I had most of the credible range scientists getting together to write papers saying I was full of crap, I'd do some real soul-searching," he replied. "As a scientist, that's what you'd have to do. But I don't know if he is a scientist."
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