-JelleS/FlickrSteak or Veggie Burger: Which is Greener? is the title of this week's article in Mother Jones Magazine featuring comments from the Savory Institute's Jim Howell.

In the article, a lifelong vegatarian shares her experience of crossing over to the world of meat eaters. The understanding that grazing animals can heal the major issues impacting our grasslands around the world is enticing many vegetarians to indulge in a good burger and steak.

The complete article can be found on the Mother Jones website, along with a forum where viewers can post comments and interact with other readers.

We encourage our fellow Holistic Management supporters to engage in this conversation and help the world realize the power behind Holistic Planned Grazing.

Photo from Rolling Stone Magazine article "The Runaway General"In a recent paper entitled The Buckminster Fuller Award and the Afghanistan War, Allan Savory describes why land health and good governance are key to world wide peace and stability. He talks about the strong need for the Obama Administration to review and rewrite the land policies that they inherited that are extremely flawed. Savory writes:

This administration has inherited policies that can only exacerbate poverty and conflict for years to come costing increasing civilian and military lives and money.

He goes on to say that:

Central to a stable, prosperous Afghanistan are good corruption-free governance and sound land and agricultural policy that address the major cause of poverty, social breakdown and violence - fertile soil for dissident movements.

The entire article can be viewed in the article section of our website.

Savory Institute CEO, Shannon Horst had an article published in the Christian Science Monitor explaining the harm that a second Green Revolution will have on Africa.

A second Green Revolution would further destroy Africa's soil and water in the long run and exacerbate the problems: food insecurity, bare land, soil erosion, increased drought and then flooding when the rains finally do come; increased pests and invasive plants; and the collapse of the river systems and groundwater stores.

She goes on to explain that what the world needs now is a Brown Revolution, one that brings the focus back to the soil.

What Africa needs is a revolution that mobilizes people to focus on local inputs and practices that produce food that grows in healthy soil (maybe a "brown revolution") and that enhances the social and economic fabric of the community and nation. Guess what? That brown revolution is possible and sustainable right now.

Horst explains that the best of intentions could once again lead us down the wrong road and continue to intensify the most crucial issues facing our planet today.

Please visit the Christian Science Monitor website to view the complete article.

On Saturday, June 26th from 11am - 1pm ET tune in to hear Deepak Chopra interview Allan Savory. Chopra will explore "Operation Hope", the winning project of the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Award, and bring the message of Holistic Management to his worldwide audience.

In an article in today's Huffington Post, Chopra writes about Eight Actions For the Gulf and Beyond. Number 7 on his list encourages readers to educate themselves on very successful approaches to restoring the ecosystem, such as that of Allan Savory.

The complete article can be viewed on the Huffington Post website. Be sure to tune into the interview Saturday and help us continue to spread the knowledge of how Holistic Management can turn deserts into thriving grasslands, restore biodiversity, bring streams, rivers and water sources back to life, and combat global poverty and hunger - all while reversing the impact of global climate change.

Allan Savory was interviewed today for NHPR's Word of Mouth. The interview focused on the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Award for the winning project Operation Hope. Operation Hope features the successes of Holistic Management at the Africa Centre for Holistic Management, the learning center just outside of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Savory points out that the Africa Centre is a great example of the power of Holistic Management. At the site in Zimbabwe they now have open, flowing water, with water lilies and fish, a kilometer higher than they have ever known it to exist. He also points out that Holistic Management is not a new concept and is already being practiced and having success on over 30 million acres worldwide.

The entire interview can be heard on the New Hampshire Public Radio site and is entitled Saving Land With Livestock.