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Operation Hope: Reversing Desertification
Agriculturalist Jozua Lambrechts, an associate of SAFCEI, sent us two articles on Allan Savory, which we are happy to repost here. He writes:
Allan Savory (http://www.savoryinstitute.com/allan-savory/) was awarded the Banksia International Award for the person or organization doing the most for the environment on a global scale.
Yesterday [3 June 2010] Allan and the Africa Centre for Holistic Management (http://achmonline.squarespace.com/) (our Holistic Management learning and training site in Zimbabwe) won the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge!
04 Jun 2010
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Method That Turns Wastelands Green Wins 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge
Cattle might not be just the cause of desertification--they might also be the solution. The Buckminster Fuller Institute has awarded a substantial grant to the Africa Center for Holistic Management International and Allan Savory, who has spent the last 50 years refining and promoting "holistic management", his unusual but clearly effective method of reversing desertification.
Story by Cliff Kuang - Wed Jun 2, 2010
04 Jun 2010
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I call upon all of us, civil society, governments, NGOs, schools, business, all sectors, to embrace this International Year of Biodiversity. Each month has a dedicated theme linking the benefits of biodiversity to society in every way.
03 May 2010
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Intelligent power: SA is throwing it all away
In the life of any nation there are rare moments of historic opportunity when great decisions can be taken that will shape the future for generations to come. We are going through one of those moments now, but it all ends this week at a crucial meeting of the board of the World Bank. Will South Africans let the future be decided in that boardroom?
The South African government wants the World Bank to approve a loan to finance what will be the fourth-largest coal-fired power station in the world. Key strategic thinkers in the World Bank want this to happen because this finally gives them what they have never had before - a firm grip on the SA economy and, above all, their drug of choice - policy influence. Environmental groups, trade unions and key Western governments don't think the World Bank should be financing coal-fired power stations in a country which is the 12th highest CO2 emitter in the world and where we already emit more CO2 per unit of GDP than any other country in the world.
08 Apr 2010
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Methodist Church of SA - Statement of condolences
The Methodist Church of Southern Africa : A statement of condolences to the nation, families and relatives of the late Mr. Eugene Terre’Blanche and Hon. Dr. Molefi Sefularo
The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, Bishop Ivan Abrahams, has learnt of the deaths - in separate incidents over the Easter weekend – of Mr. Eugene Terre’Blanche (leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandbeweging, AWB) and of Dr. Molefi Sefularo, South African Deputy Minister of Health – with deep shock and sadness.
08 Apr 2010
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