Anna Lappé’s writings

Books

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Diet for a Hot Planet
(New York: Bloomsbury, 2010) with a foreword by Bill McKibben. Coordinating workshops at conferences and working on print and television media, including a guest segment on Discovery’s Emeril Green.

Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen
(Tarcher/ Penguin, 2006) with recipes by Bryant Terry and a foreword by Eric Schlosser. Organized more than 100 events in 45 cities, directly reaching 15,000 people. Events included fundraisers, farm dinners, and farmers markets talks. Media coverage in more than 50 newspapers, magazines, including Time, Gourmet, and Food & Wine.
Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet
(Tarcher/Penguin, 2002) with Frances Moore Lappé. Organized a speaking tour to more than 20 cities, including mother-and-daughter events, community bookstores, and universities.


As contributing author:

Gristle
ed. Moby (New York: The New Press, 2010)
The CAFO Reader
(Watershed Media, 2010)

Foreword to Feeding Baby Green
Dr. Alan Greene (2009)
Food Inc.
(Los Angeles: Participant Media, 2009)

WorldChanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century
(contributing author; ed. Alex Steffan), Harry N. Abrams Books and designed by Sagmeister Inc.


Feeding the Future, From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World’s Food Crisis
(contributing author; eds. Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon) Anansi Press, 2004

Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America
(contributing author; ed, John de Graaf, Berrett-Koehler, 2003

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

Foreword to How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas
Joe Collins, Stephan DeZerega, Zahara Heckscher (Putnam, 2002)

As contributing editor:

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

“Foreword,” How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas, Joe Collins, Stephan DeZerega, Zahara Heckscher, Putnam, 2002

Articles, Op-Eds, and Letters to Editors

“Tips for Taking the Principles of Eating In on the Road,” Huffington Post, March 2010
“So Far, So Good,” Huffington Post, February 2010
“DISPATCH 1: The Challenge of Eating In,” Huffington Post, February 2010
“If We Are What We Eat, Let’s Be Kind,” The New York Times, Letter to the Editor, August 2008
“Review: The End of Food by Paul Roberts and Eat Your Heart Out by Felicity Lawrence,”The New Scientist, July 2008
“Sustainability Notebook: Build Organic Farms to Soak Up Carbon,” Spirituality & Health, July/August
“’End of Food’–It’s the System, Stupid,” San Francisco Gate, June 2008
“How Grub Can Change Your Life and Our World,” Organic Connections, May/June 2008
“Getcha Grub on: Recipes (& music!) for Vibrant Vegetarian Fare,” Mothering Magazine, May/June 2008
“Get That Green Collar Dirty,” Grist, April 2008
“There’s a Homegrown Way to Address Climate Change,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 2008
“Review: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan,” The New Scientist, March 2008
“Largest Meat Recall in History, Now Real Change?”Huffington Post February 2008
“Organic Food and You,” Organic Food and You Body + Soul Magazine, December 2007
“We Are What China Eats,” Conscious Choice, November 2007
“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 2006
“Time to Turn the Tables on ‘Big Food’” The New Scientist, June 2005
“An Interview with Wangari Maathai,” Savoy Magazine, May/June 2005
“Food Is Power,” WorldChanging, March 10, 2007
“Monsantopoly,” The Nation, September 11, 2006
“Doing Lunch,” The Nation, September 11, 2006
“The Trouble with Trans Fats,” Alternet,org, October 31, 2006
“Super Sized Policy Change,” MediaRights.org, September 22, 2004
“A Day in the Life of Democracy Now,” Clamor magazine, Summer 2004.
“The First Step,” Spirituality & Health, Spring 2004.
“Unearthing the Misery of Fashion: Shopping with a Conscience,” Conscious Choice, December 2003, among other 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.
“Last Meals? How Corporate Power Taints Our Food” Book review, Safe Food, by Marion Nestle, San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Book Review, March 30, 2003
“Book Review: Censored 2003” San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, January 5, 2003
“Of Land and Hope,” Yes! magazine, Sept/Oct 2002
“Explorations for a Planet on the Brink,” Rootstock Magazine, Fall/Winter 2002
“Hope is a Verb,” Brown Alumni Magazine, Sept/Oct 2002
“How globalization hurts: Insider explains how the IMF affects the world,” Book review, Globalization and Its Discontents, by Joseph Stiglitz, San Francisco Chronicle, July 21, 2002
“Mother’s World of Hope,” The Washington Post, May 9, 2002

Guerrilla 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 http://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.