First published in 1971, DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET was, and remains, a revolutionary book on nutrition and lifestyle. Lappe introduces a rationale for changing the way we eat and provides practical and varied recipes that are healthy alternatives to hamburgers, processed foods, and other standard fare. She advocates a proactive and informed position ...
"Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity & Courage in a World Gone Mad" is a little book with a big message. Frances Moore Lappe - author of fifteen books, including three-million copy bestseller "Diet for a Small Planet" - distills her world-spanning experience and wisdom in a conversational yet hard-hitting style. She affirms readers' basic sanity - ...
The author of the acclaimed classic DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET travels with her daughter through five continents where they encounter visionaries in social, environmental, and consumer awareness and activism. The authors reshape the terms of the debate on the urgent problem of world hunger and the resources of the planet. Included are 70 vegetarian ...
The author of the bestselling "Diet for a Small Planet" joins forces with the founder of Curious Minds to offer the radical notion that fear can be a source of energy to help people create the lives and the world they want.
This work examines the policies and politics that have kept hungry people from feeding themselves around the world, in both Third and First World countries.
Change is the watchword of the nineties. Ordinary Americans are coming together to change their workplaces, their communities, their schools, and their lives. This deeply personal, inspiring, and interactive book is full of practical advice on how to get involved.
Three out of five Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, feel our country is headed in the wrong direction. America is at the edge, a critical place at which we can either renew and revitalize or give in and lose that most precious American ideal democracy and along with it the freedom, fairness, and opportunities it assures. "Democracy's Edge ...
We are what we eat, as the saying goes. So it follows that if we want to be healthy, we should buy healthy foods. And for foods to be healthy, the earth they grow in also needs to be in good health. This might seem like Ecology 101, but it's what many supermarket shoppers are grappling with nowadays as they try to decide what to feed the family.. ...
Recognizing that many undergraduate courses on global environmental ills, though well intentioned, erode students' sense of the possible, this collection of essays (all by teacher-scholars in the field) draws students and teachers of global environmental politics into classroom conversation about the overwhelming nature of global environmental ...
The revised edition of this text includes substantial new material on hunger in the aftermath of the Cold War; global food productioin versus population growth; changing demographics and falling birth rates around the world; the shifting focus of foreign assistance in the new world order; structural adjustment and other budget-slashing policies; ...
This collection draws students into conversation about global environmental threats, the tenuous links between knowledge and power, and ways of acting powerfully in service of sustainability. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Is a "population explosion" really overwhelming the planet? Frances Moore Lappe and Rachel Schurman examine the social and economic causes which affect fertility and choices about reproduction. In seeking solutions to the "population problem", they show how for many people large families provide the only form of security; they look at the Third ...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
