Savanna – Make a more human life through better human habitat

SAVANNA

Make a more human life through better human habitat.

The World We Expected At Birth

Over the last decade and a half, my dreamy eco-philosophy has run into the hard reality of working on ranches around the world. It was this unusual (and uncomfortable) combination that provided me with inspiration for my galley proof, Savanna: How Modern Problems were Born Out of Prehistoric Extinctions. In this book, I lay out the insights I received from close encounters with lions, ill-fated attempts to live without modern technology, and all the things I learned.

Among my fellow nature geeks, lawns have received a bad wrap. That’s understandable; lawns are heavy drinkers, they have chemical dependencies, and they seem to be unproductive members of society. But, what do lawns produce?

Don’t Wait for the Mammoths

We explore the common paradigm adopted by eco-grazers for managing grass. We argue this approach has significant problems.

People say that you can’t “take half/leave half” when grazing, so you have to make the cattle graze everything. That is nonsense, but I understand why they say it.

We explore the common paradigm adopted by eco-grazers for managing grass. We argue this approach has significant problems.

The Masai in the Serengeti are in the news. In order to understand that situation you need to understand that African communal land is the most degraded land on the planet.

We explore the common paradigm adopted by eco-grazers for managing grass. We argue this approach has significant problems.

American ranchers can learn a lot from the world’s calmest cattle, though maybe not much about cattle handling.

We explore the common paradigm adopted by eco-grazers for managing grass. We argue this approach has significant problems.