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Frances Moore Lappé’s Writings
Books Articles
Books
Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life , Jossey-Bass, 2006
You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear (with Jeffrey Perkins), Tarcher/Penguin, 2004
Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (with Anna Lappé), Tarcher/Penguin, 2002
The Quickening of America: Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives (with Paul Martin Du Bois), Jossey-Bass, 1994
Diet for a Small Planet, Ballantine Books, 1971, 1975, 1982, 1991
Taking Population Seriously (with Rachel Schurman), The Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1990
Rediscovering America’s Values, Ballantine Books, 1989
Betraying the National Interest (with Rachel Schurman and Kevin Danaher), Grove Press, 1987
World Hunger: Twelve Myths (Joseph Collins, Peter Rosset and Luis Esparza), Grove Press, 1986. Updated and revised, 1999
What To Do After You Turn Off the T.V., Ballantine Books, 1985
Nicaragua: What Difference Could a Revolution Make? (with Joseph Collins and Paul Rice), Grove Press, 1984
Now We Can Speak (with Joseph Collins), Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1984
Aid as Obstacle (with Joseph Collins and David Kinley), Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1980
Mozambique and Tanzania: Asking the Big Questions (with Adele Beccar-Varela), Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1979
Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity (with Joseph Collins), Houghton Mifflin 1977, Ballantine Books, 1979
Articles & Blogs
“Wasn't It Also Obama's "Democracy Speech"?,”Huffington Post, March 26 2008
“The Only Fitting Tribute,” The Nation, March April 2008
“Heart-Centered Realism,” Tikkun Magazine, January/February 2008
“Natural Abundance,” Shambhala Sun, January 2008
“Commentary: Climate Change, Courage & Celebration,” Yes! Magazine, Winter 2008
“Power: Redefining a dirty word,” Conscious Choice, August 2007
“Frances and Anna Lappé” Sprig, November 4th, 2007
“The Right to Food Means Freedom From Dogma” (with Anna Lappé) Huffington Post, October 16, 2007
“Baffled by Al Gore’s Reason,” Huffington Post, June 15, 2007
“Creating Real Prosperity”, Yes! Magazine and AlterNet, November 22, 2006
“Live it or Lose it,” Interview by Lauren Newkirk Maynard, ArtVoice, October 2006
Foreword, Little House on a Small Planet, Lyons Press, September 2006
Excerpt from Democracy’s Edge, Utne Reader, March-April 2006.
“The Sweet Taste of Success” Alternet, February 22, 2006.
Imagine Magazine “Discovering Democracy’s Power,”
Spring 2006.
www.imaginemagazine.net
“Thomas Friedman, Are You Listening?” Huffington Post, January 27, 2006
“Hunger is Not a Place” The Nation, January 5, 2006 (read responses here)
“Hope
is Not for Wimps,” SGI Quarterly, A Buddhist Forum for Peace,
Culture
and Education, January 2006.
“Bush Isn’t the Problem” Huffington Post, December 14, 2005
“At Democracy’s Edge,” Worldwatch November, December 2005
“Rosa
Parks and the Art of Conflict Generation,” Guerilla News Network
October 26, 2005.
“Victoria Falls’ (excerpt from You Have the Power by Frances
Moore Lappé and
Jeffrey Perkins) Geez Magazine, Fall 2005, Geezmagazine.org
“Your Best Fears,” Interview by editor Will Braun, Geez
Magazine, fall 2005,
Geezmagazine.org
"Time for Progressives to Grow Up," Common Dreams, May 26, 2005; originally published on December 23, 2004 on Guerrilla News Network (see reader responses here)
"The woman who didn't listen," (with Anna Lappé), Guerrilla News Network, October 14, 2004
"Diet for a Smaller Planet: Real Sources of Abundance," (with Anna Lappé), Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World's Food Crises (by Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon, Eds.), House of Anansi, 2004
"Foreword," Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers (by Ronnie Cummins and Ben Lilliston), Marlowe & Company, 2004
"Food, Farming, Fear -- The Power of Ideas to Create the World We Want," Iowa State University's Pesek Colloquium, Winter 2003
"Foreword," Seeds of Deception (by Jeffrey Smith), Chelsea Green Publishing Company, September 2003"The Scarcity Myth," The Ecologist Magazine, March 22, 2003
"Foreword," Encountering Global Environmental Politics: Teaching, Learning, and Empowering Knowledge, (by Michael Maniates, Ed.), Rowman & Littlefield, January 2003
“No Limos, No Cameras, No Headlines: No G7…Only P7,” Guerrilla News Network, December 2002
"Of Land and Hope," (with Anna Lappé), Yes! Magazine, Fall 2002
"Foreword," (with Anna Lappé), How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas (by Joe Collins, Stephan DeZerega, Zahara Heckscher), Putnam, 2002
“Hunger 30 Years Later: What Have We Learned?” (with Anna Lappé), Wisconsin State Journal, September 2000
“Building Social Capital Without Looking Backward,”
(with Paul Martin Du Bois), National Civic Review, February
14, 1997
Recently Published Editorials
Letter to the Editor of the Tufts Health and Nutrition Letter, featured at Mollie Katzen Online, October 16, 2006
“For the Poor Abroad Corporate Sweatshops Are the Only Option – Wrong!” – Letter to The New York Times
“A Dangerous False Trade-off: Healthy Eating OR Life’s Pleasures” – Letter to The New York Times
Letter to the Editor (responding to Thomas Friedman's June 3 column, "A Race to the Top"), The New York Times, June 7, 2005
“The light in the middle of a dark Norwegian winter,” Houston Chronicle, December 18, 2004
"The genius of Wangari Maathai," (with Anna Lappé), International Herald Tribune, October 14, 2004
“Confronting Big Food,” (with Anna Lappé), The Monterey County Herald, August 2004
“Fear’s Power: Reflecting on Bowling for Columbine,” Newsletter of the Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, March 2003
“A Better Way to Feed the Hungry,” (with Anna Lappé), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 22, 2002
“Dispel the Myth That Cheap Food Comes Without High Costs,” (with Anna Lappé), The Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2002
“Fed Up with Unhealthy Food,” New Jersey Star-Ledger, February 2, 2002
“Labelling for GMOs,” Letter to the Editor, The New York Times
"Pushing Hope's Edge: Rediscovering the Power of Food," (with Anna Lappé), Response, United Methodist Women’s Magazine, October 2001
"Hope's Edge: Finding Our Path in Uncertain Times," (with Anna Lappé), U.N. Chronicle, September-November 2001
"People, Not Technology, Are the Key to Ending Hunger," (with Anna Lappé), The Los Angeles Times, June 2001
Recent Unpublished Pieces
“Now What? Seven Lessons for Building a More Powerful Progressive Politics,” Paper with Richard R. Rowe, November 2004
“The Power of Courage in a Culture of Fear,” Op-Ed, May 2004
“Latin America Losing Hope in Democracy,” Letter to the Editor, April 2004
“Manifesto on the Future of Food,” (Co-authored as part of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture), San Rossore, Italy, July 15, 2003
“The World We Want & The Words We Use,” Prepared for gathering hosted by Vandana Shiva and the region of Tuscany to create the Commission on the Future of Food, Florence, Italy, February 4-5, 2003
"The Courage to Fear," (speech to Wellesley Friends Meeting), October 27, 2002
“Children: Laboring Under False Assumptions,” July 2002
“Hope is Not for Wimps,” June 3, 2002
"Globalization and Building Living Democracy," Letter to the Editor, Winter 2001
“The Existence of Hunger Belies Democracy,” Prepared for the Fifth Annual P7 Meeting (Gathering of the world's poorest countries), Brussels, Belgium, December 2001
“Poverty & Terrorism,” Letter to the Editor, December 2001
"On Fear, Flying and Freedom," September 22, 2001
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