Solutions News Stories

1600 Solutions Stories by Professional Journalists Now Available Online

In a world plagued by bleak news, it’s critically important that we have a way to share with each other stories of world citizens taking action to find solutions to society’s toughest problems. The American News Service archive lets us do just that. Its 1,600 articles cover topics ranging from environmental action to education reform. Every one provides an example of community problem-solving.

The ANS was co-founded by Frances Moore Lappé, who went on to co-found the Small Planet Institute.

Seeing the value of these stories, Berkshire Publishing has made the full archives searchable online, free of charge, here. To search a topic of your interest, choose "Advanced search."

The American News Service (ANS) was the nation's only newswire covering "America's search for solutions." Founded by Frances Moore Lappé and Paul Martin DuBois in 1995, it was a project of the Center for Living Democracy. Lasting five years, its stories appeared in over 300 newspapers and in almost half of the top 100 newspapers by circulation.

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• Read Frances's reflections on 1968, "the year I decided to find out why people were hungry in the world," in AARP the Magazine.

• Listen to the May 4th podcast of CBC Sunday Edition featuring the lead interview with Frances on food prices and poverty

• Visit Anna's new "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. (Nina Planck is a guest as well.)

• Read Frances's "Wasn't It Also Obama's 'Democracy Speech'?" on Huffington Post.

• 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" in the 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!

• Read Frances's Getting a Grip blog!

• 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

• Listen to Anna with Ruth Reichl on The Leonard Lopate show.

• Stop the Genocide in Darfur

• Listen to Frances on PBS Now
• 'Time for Progressives to Grow Up' on Common Dreams. Read responses, too.

• Interested in volunteering with SPI? Email us to find out about current volunteer opportunities.

 

Sunday, May 18th, 2008
World Future Council Congress
Hamburg, Germany
Frances

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008, 9:00AM
Keynote Speech
16th Annual IFOAM World Congress
Modena, Italy
Frances

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