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Get a Grip                     Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad, by Frances Moore Lappe
Explore the book — a national bestseller and Nautilus "Best in Small Press" Gold Winner!

etting a Grip is not an ordinary book: it's more like a new pair of glasses, allowing you to see everything around you with greater clarity. Suddenly the world is more comprehensible, more manageable, even more beautiful. You won’t want to take them off. —Barbara Kingsolver

Getting a Grip website | Order | Book Tour | Contact

Grub

Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen

By Anna Lappé and Bryant Terry with a foreword by Eric Schlosser (Tarcher/Penguin 2006)

Irom making healthy food choices and preparing mouth-watering meals, to unmasking corporate flimflam and supporting sustainable farming, here is the complete guide for the young, the hip and the socially tuned-in - and for all who eat. With spirited and practical how-tos's for creating an affordable, easy-to-use organic kitchen and dozens of delectable recipes, Grub also offers the millions of people who buy organics fresh ideas and easy ways to cook with them. From the Valentine's Day Decadence Dinner to the Straight-Edge Punk Brunch Buffet, Grub includes over a dozen menus paired with soundtracks to cook (and party) by and artwork and poetry evoking the spirit of Grub. Getch grub on at www.eatgrub.org.

Order | The Grub Tour | Getcha Grub On



ost Americans say we’re headed in the wrong direction. But the crisis isn't George Bush; it's Thin Democracy — the dangerous idea that elections plus a market economy are enough. Lappé cracks open this myth. With surprising stories and startling facts, she uncovers Living Democracy emerging.

Order | Contact | Comments

Hope’s Edge

The Next Diet for a Small Planet

By Frances Moore Lappé, Anna Lappé (Tarcher/Penguin 2002)

Tive years ago we embarked on a journey to five continents to uncover an invisible revolution of courageous movements helping us to see solutions to environmental crises and social inequality. We share these stories (and delicious recipes from leading whole foods chefs and restaurateurs) in our book Hope’s Edge. Read why this book tops Delicious Living’s “Hot List.”

Order | Comments

You Have the Power

Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear

By Frances Moore Lappé, Jeffrey Perkins (Tarcher/Penguin 2004)
I n You Have the Power, Frances Moore Lappé and Jeffrey Perkins put forth the radical notion that fear can be a source of energy and strength, an invitation to plunge forward, and not a signal to retreat. By offering powerful tools for releasing us from our fear, Lappé and Perkins show that fear can be a precious resource that we can use to create the lives we want and the world we want. Now available in paperback!

Order | Comments | Workshops

True Lies

“Must read” — Marc Maron, Air America

By Anthony Lappé and Stephen Marshall with Ian Inaba of the Guerrilla News Network (Plume/Penguin 2004)
I n True Lies, GNN doesn’t offer up another cranky complaint about media and politics. The authors hit the road, traveling across the country and onto the battlefields of Iraq, investigating some of the biggest stories the corporate media is ignoring. From the poisoning of our own soldiers, to the turning over of our democratic process to shady corporations, to the unanswered questions of 9/11, GNN examines what has become a cultural phenomenon of mass denial.

Order

Feeding The Future

From Fat to Famine

Ed. by Andrew Heintzman, Evan Solomon (House of Anansi 2004)
Chapter contributed by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé
I eeding the Future brings together some of the world’s brightest thinkers to tackle the problems we face trying to feed 6 billion mouths and counting. Contributors offer practical solutions to issues ranging from industrial farming and sustainability to food-related diseases and nutrition. Their examples of ingenuity encompass emerging technologies, business models for sustainable food production, and solutions to the world’s obesity epidemic.

Order


Frances and Anna Lappe


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

More...


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Community is no Cliche: It Works the Burlington Way

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“Poverty & Terrorism”

Unpublished Letter to the Editor, The New York Times, December 2001

Recently 100 Nobel Laureates warned us that a “wider degree of social justice…alone gives hope of peace.” But Alan B. Krueger (Economic Scene, Dec. 13) rejects the notion that poverty and ignorance are root causes of terrorism. To make his case, he notes that terrorists typically aren’t poor; and, citing Spain and Ireland, that terrorism plagues countries that aren’t poor.

Professor Krueger misses the point: Terrorism springs from a sense of powerlessness in the face of perceived injustice. Poverty can trigger feelings of injustice, while there are of course other triggers.

Three ingredients appear to breed terrorism: one, social inequities fueling deep feelings of injustice; two, an absence of channels to express those feelings and know they are heard and taken seriously; and three, an ideological milieu encouraging individuals not to accept their have-not fates and to accept present sacrifice (of one’s own and others’ lives) for a higher, future good. Injustice, not poverty per se, is the key to understanding here.

Krueger also overlooks key aspects of human nature - - first, that we can identify with the suffering and humiliation of others, even if we ourselves are not directly affected. (Thus, historically, many leaders seeking to end poverty have not themselves been poor.) In addition, human beings have a deep need to be effective. “I effect, therefore I am,” is the way that social philosopher Erich Fromm reframed Descartes. Terrorism can be seen as the last, desperate choice of those who see no other way to be effective.

Identifying the ingredients breeding terrorism, we see that to free the world of its horror we must address today’s gross and deepening social inequities; strengthen the U.N. and other channels through which the disenfranchised can be and feel heard; and reject ideologies, including those homegrown, which justify violence.

Frances Moore Lappé

Cambridge, Massachusetts

The writer is co-author with her daughter Anna of the forthcoming Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet

Small Planet Institute

"Get a Grip" Book Jacket



"Grub" Book Jacket






Democracy Now









Get a Grip                     Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad, by Frances Moore Lappe
Explore the book — a national bestseller and Nautilus "Best in Small Press" Gold Winner!

etting a Grip is not an ordinary book: it's more like a new pair of glasses, allowing you to see everything around you with greater clarity. Suddenly the world is more comprehensible, more manageable, even more beautiful. You won’t want to take them off. —Barbara Kingsolver

Getting a Grip website | Order | Book Tour | Contact

Grub

Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen

By Anna Lappé and Bryant Terry with a foreword by Eric Schlosser (Tarcher/Penguin 2006)

Irom making healthy food choices and preparing mouth-watering meals, to unmasking corporate flimflam and supporting sustainable farming, here is the complete guide for the young, the hip and the socially tuned-in - and for all who eat. With spirited and practical how-tos's for creating an affordable, easy-to-use organic kitchen and dozens of delectable recipes, Grub also offers the millions of people who buy organics fresh ideas and easy ways to cook with them. From the Valentine's Day Decadence Dinner to the Straight-Edge Punk Brunch Buffet, Grub includes over a dozen menus paired with soundtracks to cook (and party) by and artwork and poetry evoking the spirit of Grub. Getch grub on at www.eatgrub.org.

Order | The Grub Tour | Getcha Grub On



ost Americans say we’re headed in the wrong direction. But the crisis isn't George Bush; it's Thin Democracy — the dangerous idea that elections plus a market economy are enough. Lappé cracks open this myth. With surprising stories and startling facts, she uncovers Living Democracy emerging.

Order | Contact | Comments

Hope’s Edge

The Next Diet for a Small Planet

By Frances Moore Lappé, Anna Lappé (Tarcher/Penguin 2002)

Tive years ago we embarked on a journey to five continents to uncover an invisible revolution of courageous movements helping us to see solutions to environmental crises and social inequality. We share these stories (and delicious recipes from leading whole foods chefs and restaurateurs) in our book Hope’s Edge. Read why this book tops Delicious Living’s “Hot List.”

Order | Comments

You Have the Power

Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear

By Frances Moore Lappé, Jeffrey Perkins (Tarcher/Penguin 2004)
I n You Have the Power, Frances Moore Lappé and Jeffrey Perkins put forth the radical notion that fear can be a source of energy and strength, an invitation to plunge forward, and not a signal to retreat. By offering powerful tools for releasing us from our fear, Lappé and Perkins show that fear can be a precious resource that we can use to create the lives we want and the world we want. Now available in paperback!

Order | Comments | Workshops

True Lies

“Must read” — Marc Maron, Air America

By Anthony Lappé and Stephen Marshall with Ian Inaba of the Guerrilla News Network (Plume/Penguin 2004)
I n True Lies, GNN doesn’t offer up another cranky complaint about media and politics. The authors hit the road, traveling across the country and onto the battlefields of Iraq, investigating some of the biggest stories the corporate media is ignoring. From the poisoning of our own soldiers, to the turning over of our democratic process to shady corporations, to the unanswered questions of 9/11, GNN examines what has become a cultural phenomenon of mass denial.

Order

Feeding The Future

From Fat to Famine

Ed. by Andrew Heintzman, Evan Solomon (House of Anansi 2004)
Chapter contributed by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé
I eeding the Future brings together some of the world’s brightest thinkers to tackle the problems we face trying to feed 6 billion mouths and counting. Contributors offer practical solutions to issues ranging from industrial farming and sustainability to food-related diseases and nutrition. Their examples of ingenuity encompass emerging technologies, business models for sustainable food production, and solutions to the world’s obesity epidemic.

Order


Frances and Anna Lappe


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

More...


Solutions News Stories

Community is no Cliche: It Works the Burlington Way

More Stories from the Edge

 


The Fund supports courageous movements bringing to citizen-led solutions to the root causes of hunger, poverty, and environmental devastation around the world.

Contribute here.

Google