Frances Moore Lappé’s writings
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Books in Print
Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage for the World We Really Want, Small Planet Media, 2010
“Liberation Ecology: Reframing Six Disempowering Ideas that Keep Us from Aligning with Nature, Even Our Own” Small Planet Media, Limited Release, November 2009
Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad, Small Planet Media, 2007
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
Diet for a Small Planet, Ballantine Books, 1971, 1975, 1982, 1991
World Hunger: Twelve Myths (with Joseph Collins, Peter Rosset and Luis Esparza), Grove Press, 1986. Updated and revised, 1999
Books Available as Used
The Quickening of America: Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives (with Paul Martin Du Bois), Jossey-Bass, 1994
Taking Population Seriously (with Rachel Schurman), The Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1990
Rediscovering America’s Values, Ballantine Books, 1989Betraying the National Interest (with Rachel Schurman and Kevin Danaher), Grove Press, 1987
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
Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity (with Joseph Collins), Houghton Mifflin 1977, Ballantine Books, 1979
Mozambique and Tanzania: Asking the Big Questions (with Adele Beccar-Varela), Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1979
Book Chapters
“ Going Deeper, Looking further.” (with Jared Duval), concluding chapter in A Renewable World by Herbert Giradet and Miguel Mendonca, World Future Council and Green Books, 2009
“Foreword,” Dreaming Cows: The Paintings, Murals and Drawings of Betty LaDuke Celebrating Heifer International, Betty LaDuke, Heifer International, 2009.
“Introduction,” The One-Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka, 2009 reprint by New York Review Books.
“Where’s the Power,” Greenfestival Reader: Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change, eds., Kevin Danaher and Alisa Gravitz, Polipoint Press, 2008.
“I Courageously Speak and Live My Truths,” Janice Lynne Lundy, Your Truest Self, Embracing the Woman You Are Meant to Be, Sorin Books, 2008.
“Natural Abundance,” The Best of Buddhist Writing, ed., Melvin McLeod, Shambhala, 2008.
“World Hunger: Its Roots and Remedies,” John Germov and Lauren Williams, eds., A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite, Oxford University Press, 2008.
“Rethinking Our Mental Map: Stories from the Edge of Hope,” in Kris Steinnes, Women of Wisdom: Empowering the Dreams of Women and Spirit of Women, Wise Women Publishing, 2008.
“The Promise of Democracy,” Herbert Giradet, ed., Surviving the Century, Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges. World Future Council and Earthscan, 2007.
“Foreword,” Little House on a Small Planet, Lyons Press, September 2006
“Food and Democracy,” Warrior Mothers: Stories to Awaken the Flames of the Heart, Rising Star Press, 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, eds. Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon, 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,” Encountering Global Environmental Politics: Teaching, Learning, and Empowering Knowledge, ed., Michael Maniates, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
“Foreword,” Seeds of Deception, Jeffrey Smith, Chelsea Green Publishing Company,
2003.
“Foreword,” (with Anna Lappé), How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas (by Joe Collins, Stephan DeZerega, Zahara Heckscher), Putnam, 2002
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Other Writings by Topic
Power, Courage and Living Democracy
Hunger, Food Democracy and Development
Power of Ideas/Changing Mental Maps
Environment
Politics
Unpublished Pieces
Power, Courage and Living Democracy
Articles, Editorials and Blogs
“Town Hall Tirades,” Huffington Post, August 20, 2009
“Having a Voice Makes People Happy,” Yes! magazine, Winter 2009
“A Call For Guts,” Ode magazine, November 2008
“Empower the Undecided: UDecide.org,” Huffington Post, October 6, 2008
“Power Invisible,” The Systems Thinker, May 2008 (Pegasus Communications)
“The Only Fitting Tribute,” The Nation, March April 2008
“Heart-Centered Realism,” Tikkun magazine, January/February 2008
“Power: Redefining a dirty word Conscious Choice,” Conscious Choice, August 2007
“Frances and Anna Lappé Sprig,” November 4th, 2007
“Creating Real Prosperity,” Yes! magazine and AlterNet, November 22, 2006
“Live it or Lose it,”Interview by Lauren Newkirk Maynard ArtVoice, October 2006
Excerpt from Democracy’s Edge, Utne Reader, March-April 2006
“The Sweet Taste of Success,” Alternet, February 22, 2006
“Discovering Democracy’s Power,”Imagine Magazine Spring 2006.
“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
Letter to the Editor (responding to Thomas Friedman’s June 3 column, “A Race to the Top"), The New York Times, June 7, 2005
“Fear’s Power: Reflecting on Bowling for Columbine,” Newsletter of the Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, March 2003
“For the Poor Abroad Corporate Sweatshops Are the Only Option – Wrong!” – Letter to The New York Times
“Building Social Capital Without Looking Backward,” (with Paul Martin Du Bois), National Civic Review, February 14, 1997
Booklets related to Living Democracy
Open Letter to Progressives
Doing Democracy: 10 Practical Arts: DoingDemocracy.pdf
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Hunger, Food Democracy and Development
Articles, Editorials and Blogs
“Seeing Hunger Through New Eyes,” SGI Quarterly, July 2009
“How We Can End Hunger on a Penny a Day,” TreeHugger, May 2009
“Seeing Hunger Through New Eyes: From Lack to Possibility,” The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Issues In Brief, April 2009.
“The City that Ended Hunger,” Yes! magazine, Spring 2009
“The Secret- I Saw, Close-Up, the Real Root of Global Economic Collapse,” Huffington Post, March 9, 2009
“The Next Time Someone Dismisses You as an Arugula-Eating Elitist...” Huffington Post, August 19, 2008
“NPR Misses Real Story, Plants Wrong Seeds,” Huffington Post, August 11, 2008
“‘Fantasy Dessert’ Implicated in Worldwide Epidemic,” Huffington Post, July 11, 2008
“Good Grief, Gordon Brown!” Huffington Post, July 8, 2008
“Just Who’s Doing the Hoarding? Food Independence and Real Democracy,” Huffington Post, July 1, 2008
“A Shortage of Democracy, Not Food,” The Progressive, July 2008
“The Right to Food Means Freedom From Dogma” (with Anna Lappé) Huffington Post, October 16, 2007
Letter to the Editor of the Tufts Health and Nutrition Letter, featured at Mollie Katzen Online, October 16, 2006
“Thomas Friedman, Are You Listening?” Huffington Post, January 27, 2006
“Hunger is Not a Place,” The Nation, January 5, 2006 (read responses here)
“Confronting Big Food,” (with Anna Lappé), The Monterey County Herald, August 2004
“The woman who didn’t listen,” (with Anna Lappé), Guerrilla News Network, October 14, 2004
“The Scarcity Myth,” The Ecologist, March 22, 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
“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), 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), Los Angeles Times, June 2001
“Hunger 30 Years Later: What Have We Learned?” (with Anna Lappé), Wisconsin State Journal, September 2000
“A Dangerous False Trade-off: Healthy Eating OR Life’s Pleasures” – Letter to The New York Times
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Power of Ideas/Changing Mental Maps
Articles, Editorials and Blogs
“President Obama was Wrong About “The First Man,” Huffington Post, December 21, 2009
“Our Words Are Killing Us,” Huffington Post, March 15, 2006
“Changing Our Minds, Five Myths that Stand in the way to Overcoming Poverty,” Sojourners magazine, September/October 2008
“Time for Progressives to Grow Up,” Common Dreams, May 26, 2005; originally published on December 23, 2004 on Guerrilla News Network
Environment
Articles, Editorials and Blogs
“Watching Our Words—from Limits to Alignment,” CSRwire Talkback, January 11, 2010
“Americans Wouldn’t Want To Be Like Them! (Oh, Yeah?),” Huffington Post, May 30, 2009
“Liberation Ecology,” Resurgence, January/February 2009
“Commentary: Climate Change, Courage & Celebration,” Yes! magazine, Winter 2008
“The genius of Wangari Maathai”, (with Anna Lappé), International Herald Tribune, October 14, 2004
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Politics
Articles, Editorials and Blogs
“Where Were You on November 4 2008”<Huffington Post, November 7, 2008
“Our Next President Could Learn a Lot from Willie Nelson,” Huffington Post, September 22, 2008
“7 Years Later: Could Civilians Be Key to Winning the War on Terror?” Huffington Post, September 11, 2008
“Send This to Your Republican In-laws!” Huffington Post, September 3, 2008
“Obama, Call On Us! (And We’ll All Win),” Huffington Post, August 27, 2008
“Is Clinton’s 2012 Campaign Under Way?” Huffington Post, May 29, 2008
“Wasn’t It Also Obama’s ‘Democracy Speech’?” Huffington Post, March 26 2008
“The Only Fitting Tribute,” The Nation, March April 2008
“Baffled by Al Gore’s Reason,” Huffington Post, June 15, 2007
“The light in the middle of a dark Norwegian winter,” Houston Chronicle, December 18, 2004
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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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