Extensive listening: Allan Savory, How to green the desert and reverse climate change

In this February 2013 in a  TED Talk Allan Savory set out his ideas about dessertification, an environmental problem affecting two thirds of the world's grasslands, and which accelarates climate change and causes traditional societies to descend into social chaos.

In the 1960s, while working in Africa on the interrelated problems of increasing poverty and disappearing wildlife, Savory made a significant breakthrough in understanding the degradation and desertification of grassland ecosystems. After decades of study and collaboration, thousands of managers of land, livestock and wildlife on five continents today follow the methodology he calls "Holistic Management."



Other TED Talks that touch on the topic "Learning from failure", as announced on the TED Blog by  Kate Torgovnick  in early March this year are:


Richard St. John: “Success is a continuous journey”
Kathryn Schulz: Don’t regret regret
JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure
Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex
Diana Laufenberg: How to learn from mistakes
Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong
Michael Litt: Why you need to fail to have a good career