Often times designers, thinkers, engineers, planers, and other people engaged in disciplines that value thorough, well thought out plans for any kind of enterprise or endeavor, succumb to a type of paralysis. Cycling through endless iterations of design on paper without being able to ground this good thinking into action often times creates situations where opportunities slip through our fingers.
Holistic Managements Decision making framework offers a system developed to deal with planing in real time for farmers and ranchers who have to be able to harvest crops this year, no matter what changes they may be considering making next year.
One of the most important and informative ways to analyze decision making is through the lens of finance. With a sharp eye for creating profit by minimizing expense, and a framework to insure ecological and social accountability Holistic Management's financial planing is a powerful tool to help us empower eco-social regeneration through entrepreneurial ventures.
Holistic Management Financial Planning
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Integrating this framework into the design cycles present in the world of permaculture design allows us to truly embody principles like catch and story energy and make hay while the sun shines by re-enforcing good decision making that is embedded firmly in an overall holistic vision for the long term design.
A great team of blogers is busy documenting how Holistic Management fits into an emerging framework for Carbon Farming and Regenerative Design.
Some great resources for understanding this process can be found at the carbon farming blog.
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