Events and Community
Celebrating Allan Savory
This week we joined many around the world to celebrate the 90th birthday of regenerative farmer and champion of all things alive, Allan Savory.
Bio4Climate’s Jim Laurie first met Allan Savory in Houston in the 1990s, learning holistic management alongside Texas ranchers and driving hundreds of miles for workshops. Years later in Colorado, Jim was presenting on stage, with Mr. Savory sitting right before him in the front row. Never one to miss an opportunity for a good conversation, Jim called to Allan from the stage to broach the idea of applying holistic management to fish. Savory lit up at the idea; the world’s oceans and rivers were areas he hadn’t yet explored.
Jim took this photo (above) in Boulder, Colorado on June 23rd, 2013 while attending the first Savory Institute HUB Training Course with attendees from 6 continents. There are now over 50 Savory HUBS.
Seated from left are Jody Butterfield, Allan’s wife and his co-author of Holistic Management 3rd edition, Allan Savory, and Elsa Tung, a Tufts International Relations graduate student attending Hub Training.
São Paulo | An Evening with Ailton Krenak
Hi everyone! It’s Brendan Kelly here, writing in from Brazil. I had the chance to see Brazilian thinker, writer, and activist Ailton Krenak speak this week in São Paulo. Much of Krenak’s work is rooted in care and reciprocity, in the idea that forests, rivers, soil, and non-human beings all have their own agency and value and rights.
He had more to say than could possibly fit here, but a provocation he put to all of us stood out and I wanted to share it with all of you.
Can we hope within ourselves to hear what the earth is saying? Can we hope to have the courage to provoke new things to come out from these urban ruins? Can we hope to summon the forest as an internal transformation as much as an external one?
News and Insights
How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change
Allan Savory
Today, we’re revisiting one of his great lectures. After you give it a watch, check out above for a more personal account of our own Jim Laurie’s time with Savory.
Courses
Join us this fall for two new courses to explore how rewilding our thinking, about rivers, wildlife, and entire ecosystems, can reshape our climate future.
Is a River Alive? Can rivers, forests, and other ecosystems be recognized as living beings with rights?
Jim Laurie leads a new 10-week journey guided by the questions and travels of author Robert Macfarlane. Each week we’ll connect these stories to larger ecological truths: that rivers, forests, wetlands, and fungi-rich soils function as one interconnected system, critical to rehydrating continents and cooling the climate. examine how biodiversity infiltrates water into soils, how plants cover and protect landscapes, how fungal networks sustain resilience, and how living shorelines can buffer rising seas.
This is a 10-week course that meets every Wednesday, September 24–December 3. Classes are offered 12 – 2 pm ET or 7 – 9 pm ET on Zoom.
Are Causes of Sharp Wildlife Decline Also Driving Climate Instability?
Wildlife & Climate, taught by Hart Hagan and an exciting roster of guest experts, explores the actual connections between wildlife and climate change and gives us a real and viable framework for living with nature, restoring habitat and addressing climate change.