Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment Audiobook By Jody Butterfield, Allan Savory cover art

Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment

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Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment

By: Jody Butterfield, Allan Savory
Narrated by: Paul W. Griffiths
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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.

©2016 Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield (P)2017 Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield
Agricultural & Food Sciences Conservation Environment Natural Resources Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Sustainability Ecosystem Inspiring Ranch Pollution Holistic Management
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Revolutionary Ideas • Vital Environmental Solutions • Important Message • Comprehensive Management Process • Natural Sounds
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Allan’s story is an important message that needs to be heard, but Jody’s narration is tough. His hissing S’s are like Chinese water torture where you know the next one is coming but not when. it also seems that the post edit wasn’t reviewed very thoroughly where there is repetition.
Allan was a decent narrator but he was a minor part.

Great material BUT..

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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.

Regenerate the world

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the information provided in here is very informative and helpful. I have certainly gained by listening to the book. The views expressed in long term goals and in how to fix larger scale problems however, I find to be unnecessarily narrow/restrictive.

great information, narrow-minded view

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I Loved it! Great narration.
can be applied much much further than ranching and agriculture.

Revolutionary

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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.

this wonderful knowledge needs mastered.

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The narrators use of the hard p sound, occasional bird noises and the often repeated lines made for a tough listen but the overall message was important and worth it. The book teaches how to implement holistic management and why one would need to.

Holistic message worth the listen!

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Hands down, by far and away, the most invigorating and inspiring compilation of words I have consumed in my life. The clear and detailed explanation of ‘holistic living’ given has already begun to free my mental space from the clutter of wondering what holistic living is. Instead, I now concentrate on my personal holistic context and how to best act it out in each moment.

Best Book I’ve Encountered

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Why not swim with the current? Instead we swim against it. Towing greed and our litho craniums with us.

Flow

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This book does translate to an audio book *fairly* well. However, this version is poorly edited with numerous duplicate sections and even points where the reader/author makes a mistake and asks to re-record, followed by the re-recorded section.

Good information, poorly edited

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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.

Amazing book, really bad recording

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