{"id":1007,"date":"2013-03-10T07:38:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/ranch_stories\/?p=368"},"modified":"2013-03-10T07:38:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T13:38:28","slug":"can-livestock-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=1007","title":{"rendered":"Can Livestock Save the Planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world has a water problem.\u00a0 More and more of the landscape in temperate zones is turning into desert.\u00a0 The planet is warming due to greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>Now along comes Allan Savory, the founder of holistic grazing management, claiming that herds of livestock can reverse these trends.\u00a0 It sounds a little too good to be true, but Savory makes a convincing case.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I heard Allan Savory speak at the Quivira Coalition conference last October.\u00a0 Now everyone can hear him speak at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change.html\" target=\"_blank\">TED Talks website<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s way worth twenty minutes of your time.\u00a0 And his photos of transformed landscapes are stunning.<\/p>\n<p>David J<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world has a water problem.\u00a0 More and more of the landscape in temperate zones is turning into desert.\u00a0 The planet is warming due to greenhouse gases. Now along comes Allan Savory, the founder of holistic grazing management, claiming that herds of livestock can reverse these trends.\u00a0 It sounds a little too good to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}