Our friends at One Earth produced this awesome trailer about the 50th Anniversary Edition of Diet for a Small Planet. Learn more about the book and upcoming events: www.bit.ly/DSPat50 Thank you to Civil Eats TV and @AAFON for their help on this video as well.

Plant-based meats may be high tech, but the ideas behind them have been around for decades. Subscribe to our newsletter for the history behind the headlines: https://www.retroreport.org/newsletters/ More Americans than ever are seeking out alternatives to meat, convinced that consuming plant-based substitutes may help solve climate change. Today’s newest meatless burgers have the sizzle, smell and taste of the animal variety, but the idea has roots in a movement that took off in the 1970s with Frances Moore Lappé’s counterculture bestseller, “Diet for a Small Planet.” CONNECT WITH RETRO REPORT Website: http://www.retroreport.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/RetroReport Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RetroReport Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/retroreport YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/RETROREPORT Retro Report in the Classroom: https://www.retroreport.org/education/ Retro Report is an independent, nonprofit news organization that explores the history behind the headlines. Learn more at http://www.retroreport.org.

*Start video at 5:30.* June 15, 2020, Frances is on the program "Staying Home with Josh Fox: Your Revolutionary Guide to the Green New Deal" hosted on The Young Turks.

Read the companion blog here: https://j.mp/2UrFizx Check out Frances' recent book, Daring Democracy, with co-author Adam Eichen in stores now and online here: https://www.smallplanet.org/daring-democracy In this episode of Thought Sparks, Small Planet Institute co-founder, author of 20 books, and recipient of 20 honorary doctorates, Frances Moore Lappé, discusses the most relevant theme in her life’s work at the moment: real democracy. She explains that humans are capable of democracy and with courage, it can be realized. Stay tuned for more from Frankie on the SPI channel! Find Frankie on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/francesmoorelappe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fmlappe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francesmoorelappe/ Website: https://www.smallplanet.org Find ways to join the democracy movement in your area here, with the Democracy Movement website: https://www.democracymovement.us/ Video Production by Vanessa Scalora Music: Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Read the companion blog here: https://j.mp/3eF16i0 Check out Frances' recent book, Daring Democracy, with co-author Adam Eichen in stores now and online here: https://www.smallplanet.org/daring-democracy In this episode of Thought Sparks, Small Planet Institute co-founder, author of 20 books, and recipient of 20 honorary doctorates, Frances Moore Lappé, discusses hope a source of power! She shares how hope builds power in four juicy ways—just what’s needed in the rising Democracy Movement! Stay tuned for more from Frankie on the SPI channel! Find Frankie on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/francesmoorelappe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fmlappe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francesmoorelappe/ Website: https://www.smallplanet.org Find ways to join the democracy movement in your area here, with the Democracy Movement website: https://www.democracymovement.us/ Video Production by Vanessa Scalora Music: Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Read the companion blog here: https://j.mp/3kMk4qD Check out Frances' recent book, Daring Democracy, with co-author Adam Eichen in stores now and online here: https://www.smallplanet.org/daring-democracy In this episode of Thought Sparks, Small Planet Institute co-founder, author of 20 books, and recipient of 20 honorary doctorates, Frances Moore Lappé, discusses her hope to reframe hope. Frances argues that hope has three essentials in place now and with hope we can become heroes to ourselves. Stay tuned for more from Frankie on the SPI channel! Find Frankie on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/francesmoorelappe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fmlappe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francesmoorelappe/ Website: https://www.smallplanet.org Find ways to join the democracy movement in your area here, with the Democracy Movement website: https://www.democracymovement.us/ Video Production by Vanessa Scalora Music: Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music Websites of the Democracy Movement organizations featured (in order of appearance): https://www.democracyspring.org http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/home.html http://www.democracyinitiative.org https://represent.us https://equalcitizens.us https://unrigsummit.com http://reclaimdemocracy.org https://www.publicintegrity.org https://www.citizen.org https://www.ncbcp.org http://www.rootstrikers.org https://rethinkmedia.org http://boldprogressives.org https://www.opensecrets.org https://www.opendemocracy.net http://www.thetaskforce.org https://www.moneyoutvotersin.org https://mayday.us https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/ https://everyvoice.org

Read the companion blog too: https://j.mp/3hSKsxi Check out Frances' recent book, Daring Democracy, with co-author Adam Eichen in stores now and online here: https://www.smallplanet.org/daring-democracy In this episode of Thought Sparks, Small Planet Institute co-founder, author of 20 books, and recipient of 20 honorary doctorates, Frances Moore Lappé, discusses why we can’t give up on democracy! In this dark time, Frances shares why democracy remains her trusted lodestar. Stay tuned for more from Frankie on the SPI channel! Find Frankie on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/francesmoorelappe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fmlappe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francesmoorelappe/ Website: https://www.smallplanet.org Find ways to join the democracy movement in your area here, with the Democracy Movement website: https://www.democracymovement.us/ Video Production by Vanessa Scalora Music: Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Read the companion blog too: https://j.mp/2TsINoP Check out Frances' recent book, Daring Democracy, with co-author Adam Eichen in stores now and online here: https://www.smallplanet.org/daring-democracy In this episode of Thought Sparks, Small Planet Institute co-founder, author of 20 books, and recipient of 20 honorary doctorates, Frances Moore Lappé, discusses what is democracy. Frances argues that democracy is a thrilling journey to realize three conditions shown to elicit the best in humans. Stay tuned for more from Frankie on the SPI channel! Find Frankie on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/francesmoorelappe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fmlappe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francesmoorelappe/ Website: https://www.smallplanet.org Find ways to join the democracy movement in your area here, with the Democracy Movement website: https://www.democracymovement.us/ Video Production by Vanessa Scalora Music: Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music Images: California Disclose Act: https://a22.asmdc.org/press-releases/california-disclose-act-moves-governors-desk Holocaust Stumbling Stone: https://www.newsweek.com/munich-continue-ban-stumbling-stone-holocaust-memorials-358176 Seattle Democracy Voucher: https://www.sightline.org/2015/04/14/seattle-voters-meet-democracy-vouchers/

Read the companion blog too: https://bit.ly/3eIe7Y9 Check out Frances' recent book, Daring Democracy, with co-author Adam Eichen in stores now and online here: https://www.smallplanet.org/daring-democracy In this episode of Thought Sparks, Small Planet Institute co-founder, author of 20 books, and recipient of 20 honorary doctorates, Frances Moore Lappé, discusses are humans even capable of democracy? She says, "Yes!" Frances argues we come equipped except for one big handicap and we can tackle it Stay tuned for more from Frankie on the SPI channel! Find Frankie on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/francesmoorelappe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fmlappe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francesmoorelappe/ Website: https://www.smallplanet.org Find ways to join the democracy movement in your area here, with the Democracy Movement website: https://www.democracymovement.us/ Video Production by Vanessa Scalora Music: Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Read the companion blog too: https://j.mp/3roYRV9 Check out Frances' recent book, Daring Democracy, with co-author Adam Eichen in stores now and online here: https://www.smallplanet.org/daring-democracy In this episode of Thought Sparks, Small Planet Institute co-founder, author of 20 books, and recipient of 20 honorary doctorates, Frances Moore Lappé, discusses what is courage? She shares her story about choosing to use fear as pure energy, including energize our work for real democracy! Stay tuned for more from Frankie on the SPI channel! Find Frankie on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/francesmoorelappe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fmlappe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francesmoorelappe/ Website: https://www.smallplanet.org Find ways to join the democracy movement in your area here, with the Democracy Movement website: https://www.democracymovement.us/ Video Production by Vanessa Scalora Music: Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music Images: Wangari Maathai https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/world/africa/wangari-maathai-nobel-peace-prize-laureate-dies-at-71.html Rev. Timothy Njoya http://hallelujah.co.ke/second-nairobi-personal-computer-says-rev-timothy-njoya/

Read the companion blog too: https://j.mp/3xVGBoQ Check out Frances' recent book, Daring Democracy, with co-author Adam Eichen in stores now and online here: https://www.smallplanet.org/daring-democracy In this episode of Thought Sparks, Small Planet Institute co-founder, author of 20 books, and recipient of 20 honorary doctorates, Frances Moore Lappé, discusses the opposite of evil which is no longer goodness. In this dark moment, the opposite of evil is courage! Stay tuned for more from Frankie on the SPI channel! Find Frankie on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/francesmoorelappe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fmlappe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francesmoorelappe/ Website: https://www.smallplanet.org Find ways to join the democracy movement in your area here, with the Democracy Movement website: https://www.democracymovement.us/ Video Production by Vanessa Scalora Music: Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Read the companion blog too: https://j.mp/3hTLgSs Check out Frances' recent book, Daring Democracy, with co-author Adam Eichen in stores now and online here: https://www.smallplanet.org/daring-democracy In this episode of Thought Sparks, Small Planet Institute co-founder, author of 20 books, and recipient of 20 honorary doctorates, Frances Moore Lappé, introduces a major theme in her life's work: courage. She explains that unless we act we will never know the power we hold and we will never know the historical impact of our actions. Every advance in human history for freedom and democracy starts with just a few courageous people, and someone always noticing. Stay tuned for more from Frankie on the SPI channel! Find Frankie on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/francesmoorelappe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fmlappe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francesmoorelappe/ Website: https://www.smallplanet.org Find ways to join the democracy movement in your area here, with the Democracy Movement website: https://www.democracymovement.us/ Video Production by Vanessa Scalora Music: Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music Images: Frankie at Democracy Spring March https://www.smallplanet.org Spock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock Leipzig, Nilolaikirche https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leipzig_Nikolaikirche_BW_2012-09-10_18-11-46.jpg

Rally for Unity and Solidarity was held January 19, 2019 at the Missouri Theatre, Columbia, MO. Keynote speaker Francis Moore Lappé, other speakers: Barb Kuensting, Michela Skelton, Carolyn Amparan, Margot McMillan, OneMic Poets: Bini Sebastian and Christopher Lee Shannon. Music by Violet and the Undercurrents. For more ways to help the environment go to Carolyn Amparan's blog: http://slowingclimatechange.blogspot.com/

On February 6, 2019 some 200 students, faculty, activists, and community members crowded into Tishman Auditorium at The New School in New York City to hear Vandana Shiva, Mark Bittman, and author Timothy A. Wise discuss the battle for the future of food. Wise, director of the Land and Food Rights Program at Small Planet Institute, was in New York for the release of his new book, Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food.

Like and subscribe to hear more from chefs, writers, beverage professionals, and more! When "Diet for a Small Planet" was first published in 1971, visionary and democracy advocate Frances Moore Lappé awakened a whole generation and changed the way people all over the world think about food, nutrition, and agriculture. In 2002, thirty years and three million copies later, Lappé followed up her bestseller with "Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet." She is the author or co-author of sixteen books, many of which have been translated into more than a dozen languages; her most recent book, "Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad" was published in 2007. Co-founder of various national think-and-action-tank organizations including the Small Planet Institute, Institute for Food and Development Policy, and the Center for Living Democracy, in 1987 Lappé became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize). Community-focused and independent restaurants are at the heart of every city, town, and village across America and the world. The James Beard Foundation celebrates restaurants that showcase culinary leadership and provides training and resources for chefs and restaurateurs to use their voices for positive food system change. Open for Good is the James Beard Foundation’s campaign to help independent restaurants survive this crisis, rebuild better, and thrive for the long term. Open for Good programs provide critical resources to help independent restaurants build the capacity to come back stronger, more equitable, more sustainable, and more resilient. Learn more at jamesbeard.org.

Frances Lappe argues with Burger King's President of Global Marketing that their new ad campaign not only uses poor people unethically to enrich the company but reflects a flawed business model — one thats turned the Whopper into the Hummer of the food industry. Burger King executives, she suggests, could learn from the fate of the Hummer makers now on their knees in Washington and create a more savvy business strategy.

Author and global food and democracy activist, Frances Moore Lappé, talks about her latest book, ECOMIND: CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK TO CREATE THE WORLD WE WANT. Frances Moore Lappé spoke at Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon, on September 14th, 2011. She is author of the multi-million copy bestseller, DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET and co-founder of the Small Planet Institute. To find out more about Frances Moore Lappé and her work, please visit the Small Planet Institute website at smallplanetinstitute.org

Frances Moore Lappé is a "living democracy" advocate and world food expert. She is the author or coauthor of 18 books, including Diet for a Small Planet, which was chosen among "75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World" by the Women's National Book Association. It also was recently dubbed a "blueprint for eating with a small carbon footprint long before the term was coined," by J.M. Hirsch of the Associated Press. In 2008, "Gourmet Magazine" selected Frances among 25 people, including Thomas Jefferson and Julia Child, whose work has changed the way America eats, and the James Beard Foundation named her Humanitarian of the year. She is a winner of the Right Livelihood Award, called the Alternative Nobel. She and her daughter Anna Lappé launched the Cambridge-based The Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund in 2001. Frances's major media appearances include the "Today Show," "Fox News," "Hardball," NPR, and PBS Now. Articles by or about her have appeared in the New York Times, Harper's, O: The Oprah Magazine, People, The Nation, and more. ----------------------- In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

Frances Moore Lappé introduces Getting a Grip 2

Frances Moore Lappé and her daughter Anna traveled around the world in 2000 and discovered courageous social movements solving the roots of poverty. Now you can support the inspiring people they met directly through the Small Planet Fund. Find out how at: http://smallplanetfund.org.