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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


The Getting a Grip blog always has the latest news, links, and thoughts from Frances and the Small Planet team.

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 and comment on Frances's Huffington Post blogs.

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.

Visit Anna's "Take a Bite out of Climate Change" website.

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)

Read Anna's op-ed in Seattle Post Intelligencer on food and climate change; hear her on Seattle radio

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

• Thanks to everyone who made our annual fund-raising gala a success! Watch The Invisible Revolution, a film about those your investment helps 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 a prepublication version of Frances' 'World Hunger: Roots and Remedies,' from the upcoming Oxford title A Sociology of Food and Nutrition.


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.

 

Thursday, July 24, 2008, 5:00PM
Keynote Speech
Vermont Law School's Food, Fuel, and the Future of Farming Conference
South Royalton, VT
Anna

Saturday, July 26, 2008, 3:30-5:00PM
Workshop with Frances Moore Lappé
Kickapoo Country Fair
Organic Valley National Headquarters
One Organic Way
La Farge, WI
Anna

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Solutions News Stories

Community is no Cliche: It Works the Burlington Way

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Selected Past Appearances by Anna Lappé

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Selected University Lectures and Speeches

• Allegheny College
• Art Institute of New York
• Boston College
• Brown University
• Chatham College, Rachel Carson Institute
• Columbia University
• Eckerd College
• Franklin & Marshall College
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Smith College
• University of Alberta
• University of Colorado
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Santa
• University of Texas
• University of Wisconsin
• Vassar College
• Yale University

Conference Keynote Speeches, Workshops and Panels

• Baum Forum on Food and Farming (with Alice Waters, Eric Schlosser, and Michael Pollan)
• Green Nations Gathering
• Ohio Ecological Farmers Association Annual Conference
• Oxfam International Student Fair Trade Conference
• Rolling Thunder Chautauqua Tour
• Women Chefs and Restaurateurs Annual Conference
• Bioneers Conference

Community Events

• Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California
• Art Car Museum in Houston, Texas
• Café Ambrosia in Seattle and other restaurants across the country
• New York City Independent Media Center Benefit
• Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering (NWRAGE) Benefit
• Rainforest Action Network Benefit (with Paul Hawken, Julia Butterfly Hill, and Mark Hertsgaard)
• Rex Foundation Benefit
• San Francisco Women’s Foundation Benefit
• Transfair USA Benefit
• And bookstore events in cities across the country

Testimonials

"Anna is an articulate, compelling and lucid speaker, and especially inspires young people to know that they, too, can make a difference."
--Nina Simons, Co-Producer, Bioneers Conference

"I still hear from my students that Anna’s talk was the highlight of last fall. Her greatest skill is her capacity to build and restore hope. It’s not hard to lose faith —- then Anna shows up and you know we don’t just have hope, we are our hope, and change is absolutely in the works."
--Joan Clingan, Professor, Prescott College

"With her dynamic energy, insight, and personal commitment, Anna makes a powerful connection with a new generation of young people. She shows how to see current challenges with fresh eyes and make a positive difference."
--Diane Dreher, Professor, Santa Clara University

"Anna uses a beautiful blend of facts and stories. I was impressed with her articulate grasp of the issues and her warm down-to-earth manner."
--Putting Justice on the Table, Participant, Hinsdale, Illinois

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


The Getting a Grip blog always has the latest news, links, and thoughts from Frances and the Small Planet team.

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 and comment on Frances's Huffington Post blogs.

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.

Visit Anna's "Take a Bite out of Climate Change" website.

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)

Read Anna's op-ed in Seattle Post Intelligencer on food and climate change; hear her on Seattle radio

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

• Thanks to everyone who made our annual fund-raising gala a success! Watch The Invisible Revolution, a film about those your investment helps 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 a prepublication version of Frances' 'World Hunger: Roots and Remedies,' from the upcoming Oxford title A Sociology of Food and Nutrition.


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.

 

Thursday, July 24, 2008, 5:00PM
Keynote Speech
Vermont Law School's Food, Fuel, and the Future of Farming Conference
South Royalton, VT
Anna

Saturday, July 26, 2008, 3:30-5:00PM
Workshop with Frances Moore Lappé
Kickapoo Country Fair
Organic Valley National Headquarters
One Organic Way
La Farge, WI
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 life on-the-ground, citizen-led solutions to the root causes of hunger, poverty, and environmental devastation around the world.

Contribute here.




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