Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé, (born February 10 1944, Pendleton, Oregon, parents: John Gilmer and Ina Moore). She is the author of fifteen books, including the 1971 three-million-copy bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet. Her most recent work, Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life, completes a trilogy which began in 2002 with the 30th anniversary sequel to Diet, written with her daughter, Anna Lappé: Hope's Edge. Then in 2004 she published with Jeffrey Perkins You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear. Among Lappé's other books are World Hunger: Twelve Myths and Rediscovering America's Values.
Currently Lappé and her daughter Anna lead the Small Planet Institute based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1975, with Joseph Collins she launched the California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) to educate Americans about the causes of world hunger. In 1990, Lappé co-founded the Center for Living Democracy, a ten-year initiative to accelerate the spread of democratic innovations in which regular citizens contribute to problem solving. She served as founding editor of the Center’s American News Service (1995-2000), which placed stories of citizen problem-solving in nearly half the nation’s largest newspapers.
She has received 17 honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions, including the University of Michigan, Kenyon College, Allegheny College, and Lewis and Clark College. In 1987 in Sweden, Lappé became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award. In 2003 she received the Rachel Carson Award from the National Nutritional Foods Association.
Selected publications
- Diet for a Small Planet, Ballantine Books, 1971, 1975, 1982, 1991.
- Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity (with Joseph Collins), Houghton Mifflin 1977, Ballantine Books, 1979.
- What To Do After You Turn Off the T.V., Ballantine Books, 1985.
- World Hunger: Twelve Myths (with Joseph Collins), Grove Press, 1986, 1998.
- Rediscovering America's Values, Ballantine Books, 1989
- The Quickening of America: Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives (with Paul Martin Du Bois), Jossey-Bass, 1994.
- Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (with Anna Lappé), Tarcher/Penguin, 2002.
- You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear (with Jeffrey Perkins), Tarcher/Penguin, 2004.
- Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life, Jossey-Bass, 2005.
External links
- [Small Planet Institute]
- [Big Picture TV] Free video clips of Frances Moore Lappé
- [Right Livelihood Award website]
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