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'Frances Moore Lappé' (born February 10 1944) is a noted social change and democracy activist, and the author of 15 books, including the three-million-copy bestseller, ''Diet for a Small Planet'' (originally published in 1971).

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Biography

Lappé was born in Pendleton, Oregon to John Gilmer and Ina Moore and grew up in Texas. After graduating fromEarlham College in 1966, she briefly attended Stanford University for graduate school before dropping out. Shortly thereafter, she married toxicologist and environmentalist Dr. Marc Lappé, whom she later divorced; they had two children, Anthony and Anna Lappé.
She first gained prominence in the early 1970s with the publication of her book "Diet for a Small Planet," which sold several million copies and argued that global famine was due to shortages in democracy and how resources are distributed rather than due to overpopulation, or technological failures. Her most recent work, ''Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life'', completes a trilogy which began in 2002 with the 30th anniversary sequel to ''Diet for a Small Planet'', titled ''Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet'', co-written with her daughter, Anna Lappé. Then in 2004 she published with Jeffrey Perkins ''You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear''. Among Lappé's other books are ''World Hunger: Twelve Myths'' and ''Rediscovering America's Values''.
Currently Lappé and her daughter Anna lead the Small Planet Institute based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1975, with Joseph Collins she launched the California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) to educate Americans about the causes of world hunger. In 1990, Lappé co-founded the Center for Living Democracy, a ten-year initiative to accelerate the spread of democratic innovations in which regular citizens contribute to problem solving. She served as founding editor of the Center’s American News Service (1995-2000), which placed stories of citizen problem-solving in nearly half the nation’s largest newspapers.
Lappe has received 17 honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions, including the University of Michigan, Kenyon College, Allegheny College, and Lewis and Clark College. In 1987 in Sweden, Lappé became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award. In 2003 she received the Rachel Carson Award from the National Nutritional Foods Association.
She is a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement. [1]

Writings

★ ''Diet for a Small Planet'', Ballantine Books, 1971, 1975, 1982, 1991. ISBN 0345023781

★ ''Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity'' (with Joseph Collins), Houghton Mifflin, 1977, Ballantine Books, 1979.

★ ''What To Do After You Turn Off the T.V.'', Ballantine Books, 1985.

★ ''World Hunger: Twelve Myths'' (with Joseph Collins), Grove Press, 1986, 1998.

★ ''Rediscovering America's Values'', Ballantine Books, 1989

★ ''The Quickening of America: Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives'' (with Paul Martin Du Bois), Jossey-Bass, 1994.

★ ''Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet'' (with Anna Lappé), Tarcher/Penguin, 2002.

★ ''You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear'' (with Jeffrey Perkins), Tarcher/Penguin, 2004.

★ ''Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life'', Jossey-Bass, 2005.

External links

★ Small Planet Institute

★ 226 Big Picture TV Free video clips of Frances Moore Lappé

★ Right Livelihood Award website