Anna Lappé's Writings

Books


Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen

Anna Lappé and Bryant Terry
(New York: Tarcher/ Penguin, 2006)

 

 


Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet

Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé
(New York: Tarcher/ Penguin, 2002)

 



Books (Contributing Author)

Feeding the Future, From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World's Food Crisis
eds. Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon
(Toronto: Anansi Press, Fall 2004)

 

 

Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America
ed. John de Graaf
(San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2003)

 

 

We Got Issues!: A Young Women's Guide to a Bold, Courageous and Empowered Life
eds. Rha Goddess and J-Love Calderon
(Inner Ocean: September 2006)

 

 

WorldChanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century
ed. Alex Steffan
published by Harry N. Abrams Books and designed by Sagmeister Inc.

 

 

"Anna Lappe, Food Activist and coauthor, Hope's Edge," Around the Table: Women on Food, Cooking, Nourishment, Love....and the Mothers Who Dished It Up for Them (by Lela Nargi, Ed.), Tarcher/Penguin, 2005

"Foreword," Micro Eco-Farming: Prospering from Backyard to Small Acreage in Partnership with the Earth (by Barbara Berst Adams), New World Publishing, 2005

Books (contributing editor)

Democracy’s Edge
Frances Moore Lappé
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005)


 

 

You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear
Frances Moore Lappé and Jeff Perkins
(New York City: Tarcher/Putnam, 2004)

 

 


foreword
How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas
Joe Collins, Stephan DeZerega, Zahara Heckscher
(New York: Putnam, 2002)

 

Articles, Op-eds and Letters to Editors

The S Files: Reports from the cutting edge of sustainability for Spirituality & Health magazine

“Time to Turn the Tables on ‘Big Food’,” New Scientist Magazine, July 15-21 2006

“Dinner Parties on the Front Lines. Hungry for Company,” Edible East End (and other Edible Communities publications), Fall 2006

“Picnic with a Twist: Good for You, Good for the Country,” ABCnews.com, June 30, 2006

"Vote with your Fork: How to Create a Life of Good Grub", Spirituality & Health, May/June 2006

"The Power of Grub", World Ark, May/June 2005

Letter to the Editor: Putting the Family Back into Farm, New York Times, March 13, 2005

"Letter to the Editor - How to Put the Family Back in Farm," The New York Times, March 13, 2005

"Media works: Creative use of the media," Food & Society, January/February 2005

"Letter to the Editor of The New York Times (unpublished)," January 12, 2005

"What Would Santa Do?" AlterNet, December 25, 2004

"The genius of Wangari Maathai," (with Frances Moore Lappé), International Herald Tribune, October 14, 2004

"Letter to the Editor," USA Today, October 4, 2004

"Super Sized Policy Reform," www.mediarights.org, September 2004

“Confronting Big Food,” (with Frances Moore Lappé), The Monterey County Herald, August 2004

"An Interview with Wangari Maathai", Savoy Magazine, May/June 2004

"A Day in the Life of Democracy Now!," Clamor Magazine, May/June 2004

"Taking Your First Step," Spirituality & Health Magazine, May/June 2004

"Unearthing the Misery of Fashion: Shopping with a Conscience," Conscious Choice, December 2003. Also appeared in other Dragonfly Media outlets.

"The Push/Pull of the Food Movement," Conscious Choice, October 2003. Also in Whole Life Times, and New Times, among other Dragonfly Media outlets.

Book Review: "Last Meals? How Corporate Power Taints Our Food, Safe Food, Marion Nestle," San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Book Review, March 30, 2003

Book Review: "Censored 2003," San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Book Review, January 5, 2003

"Hope's Edge: Explorations for a Planet on the Brink," Rootstock Magazine, Fall/Winter 2002

"Of Land and Hope," (with Frances Moore Lappé), Yes! Magazine, Sept/Oct 2002

"Hope is a Verb," Brown Alumni Magazine, Sept/Oct 2002

"Organic Diet for a Small Planet," The Globe and Mail, July 25, 2002

Book Review: "Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents," San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Book Review, July 22, 2002

"A Better Way to Feed the Hungry," (with Frances Moore Lappé), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 22, 2002

"Mother’s World of Hope: Lessons for a Small Planet," The Washington Post, May 9, 2002

"Dispel the Myth That Cheap Food Comes Without High Costs," (with Frances Moore Lappé), The Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2002

"Fed Up with Unhealthy Food," (with Frances Moore Lappé), New Jersey Star Ledger, February 2, 2002

"Pushing Hope's Edge: Rediscovering the Power of Food," (with Frances Moore Lappé), Response, United Methodist Women’s Magazine, October 2001

"Hope's Edge: Finding Our Path in Uncertain Times," (with Frances Moore Lappé), U.N. Chronicle, September-November 2001

“Hunger 30 Years Later: What Have We Learned?” (with Frances Moore Lappé), Wisconsin State Journal, September 2000



Guerilla News Network Posts

"The woman who didn't listen," (with Frances Moore Lappé), Guerrilla News Network, October 14, 2004

"Guerrilla of the Week: An Interview with Melody Ermachild Chavis, author of Meena: Heroine of Afghanistan the Martyr Who Founded RAWA," August 25, 2003

And many other posts...Visit www.gnn.tv to learn more about the Guerilla News Network.

Reports

"Transforming Media, Inc.: Media’s Power to Shape the Public Mind and New Opportunities to Reclaim It," White Paper, Unpublished, October 2003, revised April 2004. Available on request.



Go to the Getting a Grip blog for the latest news, links, and thoughts from Frances and the Small Planet team.

Check out the Take a Bite Out of Climate Change website for more info on Anna's latest book and information on the connection between the food on our plate and the climate crisis.

Read or download the MP3 of Voice of America's profile of Frances, "American Activist Promotes Democracy Worldwide."

"Send This to Your Republican In-Laws!" Frances on the reality of Democratic economic policy, via Huffington Post.

Visit the Small Planet Google Map for dates, locations, and directions to Frances and Anna's appearances.

Read and comment on Frances's Huffington Post blogs, including "The Next Time Someone Dismisses You as an Arugula-Eating Elitist," and "NPR Misses Real Story, Plants Wrong Seeds."

Download Frances' 'World Hunger: Roots and Remedies,' from the Oxford book, A Sociology of Food and Nutrition.

Watch Frances discuss the food/democracy crisis on Democracy NOW!

Watch a short film about Frances shown at the James Beard Foundation Awards Humanitarian of the Year Award ceremony. Read her acceptance speech here.

Read Frances's reflections on 1968, "the year I decided to find out why people were hungry in the world," in AARP the Magazine. An extended on-line interview can also be found here.

See Frances in Gourmet magazine as one of "25 People Who Changed Food in America".

Watch Frances in "A Hungry Planet," a special segment on the world hunger crisis from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's evening news broadcast, "The National."

Listen to the May 4th podcast of CBC Sunday Edition featuring Frances on food prices and poverty.

Hear Anna on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, discussing whether higher food prices might mean that we'll eat healthier food.

Read Anna weighing in on "Some Good News on Food Prices" (NY Times).

Read "The Only Fitting Tribute," Frances's take on the New Deal written for The Nation and found also on CommonDreams.org.

Read "Hanging with Frances Moore Lappé" (Boston Globe)

Watch Anna as your guru for fair trade and safe beauty products on Howdini.com

Watch The Invisible Revolution, a film about those your Small Planet Fund contributions help to support.

Watch Getting a Grip on Money & Politics, Frances' & Anthony's film about the "Best Kept Secret in America!"

Read Anna's blog as she continues the call to Eat Grub!

• Frances's first book, Diet for a Small Planet, was chosen among 75 Books by Women whose Words have Changed the World


Read more about Frankie’s book, Democracy’s Edge

Read “Creating Real Prosperity” by Frances, in Yes! Magazine and AlterNet

Read "Big Apple to go Trans-Fat Free" by Anna in Alternet

Read News from Brazil’s Zero-Hunger Campaign

• Hear Anna with Ruth Reichl on The Leonard Lopate show.

• Listen to Frances on PBS Now

Email us for info about volunteering for SPI.

 

Friday, September 5th, 2008, time TBA
Visiting Speaker
Albuquerque Academy
Simms Auditorium
6400 Wyoming Boulevard, NE
Albuquerque, NM
Frances

Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Just Food presents Let Us Eat Local
Event to celebrate the 2008 honorees
of the McKinley Hightower Beyah Award
Long Island City, NY
Anna

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