Allan Savory was born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa at the University of Natal, BS in Zoology and Botany. 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 1992 Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, formed a non-profit organization in Zimbabwe, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management, donating a ranch that would serve as a learning site for people all over Africa. In 2009 Savory, Butterfield, and a group of colleagues co-founded the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado to serve the world through an international network of entrepreneurial innovators and leaders committed to serving their regions with the highest standards of Holistic Management training and implementation support.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 10.8 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.
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