Managing complexity with Holistic Management
Channel: Inside Ideas
Date: 2021-11-18

Allan Savory is my guest on Episode 143 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.

Allan Savory, born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa (University of Natal, BS in Zoology and Botany) pursued an early career as a research biologist and game ranger in the British Colonial Service of what was then Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia) and later as a farmer and game rancher in Zimbabwe.

In the 1960s he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification of the world’s grassland ecosystems and, as a resource management consultant, worked with numerous managers on four continents to develop sustainable solutions.

In 2003, Allan Savory received Australia’s International Banksia Award “for the person or organization doing the most for the environment on a global scale,” and in 2010 Savory (and the Africa Centre) received the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s Challenge award for work that has “significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.” 

A TED talk Savory gave in 2013 has received over 7.8 million views and in 2014 was voted one of the 50 most intriguing TED talks of all time. 

The Savory Institute is one of 11 finalists in the Virgin Earth Challenge, a $25 million initiative for the successful commercialization of ways of taking greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere and keeping them out with no countervailing impacts.

https://savory.global/
https://youtu.be/Pu1ZxG-jnCU
https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_fight_desertification_and_reverse_climate_change
https://africacentreforholisticmanagement.org/
https://www.instagram.com/savoryinstitute/
https://twitter.com/SavoryInstitute
https://www.facebook.com/savory.global/
https://www.youtube.com/user/HolisticGrazing

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00:00 - Allan Savory is my guest on Episode 143 of Inside Ideas
00:39 - Introduction
04:49 - Contributor to Menu B book https://menub.earth/
05:50 - How have you weathered this crazy time?
08:02 - Desertification is human-made 
11:30 - Holistic management framework 
13:08 - Humans causing climate change
15:00 - COP26 in Glasgow
17:00 - It’s how we produce
19:08 - Net Zero means you’re dead
20:08 - Unpacking Produce vs Manage
25:36 - Regenerative Agriculture side event at COP26 - How to manage complexity
27:08 - Regeneration
28:05 - What we manage
29:30 - Institutions 
31:27 - New management insights
36:30 - Civilisation frameworks
41:24 - 2 new discoveries 
42:50 - How decisions are made 
47:00 - Hopes for new models?
49:49 - Take a look at National Parks
52:35 - A constructive way forward - holistic management 
1:00:07 - It’s about the future of humanity
1:01:18 - Success 
1:04:30 - Symbiotic Earth - Lynn Margulis
1:06:17 - Change the way we develop policies through institutions
1:06:58 - The Sustainable Development Goals 
1:16:08 - Plan or Vision - manage complexity and the cause
1:21:11 - What does a world that works for everyone look like for you?
1:26:16 - Earth shot prizes 
1:27:10 - What I wished I knew from the start