Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappe's sixteen books have been translated into over twenty languages. She co-founded the Institute for Food and Developmental Policy as well as the American news service. With her daughter, she leads the Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute and the affiliated Small Planet Fund. She is ... (more)a founding councilor of the World Future Council and recipient of seventeen honorary doctorates as well as the Right Livelihood award.

Do you know how your food is produced and brought to your table, how land use, oil consumption, air and water quality, nutrition and food safety are all affected in the process, not only in our country but worldwide? Come hear Frances Moore Lappé describe not only the damage done by our global food ... (more)industrial complex but also what we as citizens can do to help bring about a more rational food supply system in our communities and in the wider world. Her talk, Getting a Grip: Our Food and Our Small Planet will be held on Monday, March 24 at 7:00 pm as part of the Green Decade Coalition’s 2008 Environmental Speaker Series.

Frances Moore Lappé’s ground-breaking 1971 book, Diet for a Small Planet awakened a whole generation to the human-made causes of hunger and the human potential for eliminating it. Lappé has joined with others to build organizations for increasing and diffusing knowledge of how our food is produced and for supporting innovative efforts to create socially and nutritionally better alternatives.