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Frances is the author or co-author of 18 books, beginning with Diet for a Small Planet. Look for her new book EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want, in Fall 2011 from Nation Books. Frances appears frequently as a public speaker and on radio. She is a regular contributor to Huffington Post.

Environment

Hunger, Food Democracy & Development

Political Life

Power of Ideas/Changing Mental Maps

Power, Courage & Living Democracy

Special presentations, letters, and more

Environment top

Oct 31, 2012

Facing Sandy's Fury, Don't Let Clean Energy Naysayers Deny Us Hope

The Huffington Post

Aug 10, 2012

From Global Pariah to Green Giant: Does Germany Hold a Key to Our Sustainable Future?

The Huffington Post

Sep 21, 2011

SPEECH: World Future Council Future Policy Award Presentation to The Gambia

Gambia Award 9 21 11.pdf

World Future Council Future Policy Award Presentation

Jan 11, 2010

Watching Our Words—from Limits to Alignment

CSRwire Talkback

Oct 20, 2009

Questions to Ask Strategies to Save Our Planet

Solutions Journal

May 30, 2009

Americans Wouldn’t Want To Be Like Them! (Oh, Yeah?)

The Huffington Post

Jan 31, 2009

Liberation Ecology

Resurgance

Nov 7, 2007

Commentary: Climate Change, Courage & Celebration

Yes! Magazine

Oct 14, 2004

The Genius of Wangari Maathai

The New York Times

Hunger, Food Democracy & Development top

Oct 25, 2012

Seven Things to Tell Your Friends About GMOs

The Huffington Post

Sep 13, 2012

Poverty Down! Inequality & Hunger Up... Huh?

The Huffington Post

Sep 6, 2012

Stanford Scientists Shockingly Reckless on Health Risk And Organics

The Huffington Post

Jan 22, 2012

Food Scarcity is a Dangerous Myth

The Ottawa Citizen

Nov 2, 2011

Farmer as Hero: Let's make small farming a viable option

Des Moines Register

Oct 14, 2011

Small farms, big results

The Boston Globe

Oct 3, 2011

The Food Movement: Its Power and Possibilities

The Nation

May 19, 2011

Doctors to McDonald's: Stop Making Our Kids Sick

The Huffington Post

Jun 23, 2010

UN Calls for Climate Friendly Diet

Yes! Magazine

May 8, 2010

Frances Moore Lappé On How We Can End Hunger On A Penny A Day

TreeHugger

Jul 1, 2009

Seeing Hunger Through New Eyes

SGI Quarterly

Mar 9, 2009

The Secret- I Saw, Close-Up, the Real Root of Global Economic Collapse

The Huffington Post

Feb 13, 2009

The City that Ended Hunger

Yes! Magazine

Aug 19, 2008

The Next Time Someone Dismisses You as an Arugula-Eating Elitist...

The Huffington Post

Aug 11, 2008

NPR Misses Real Story, Plants Wrong Seeds

The Huffington Post

Jul 11, 2008

Fantasy Dessert’ Implicated in Worldwide Epidemic

The Huffington Post

Jul 8, 2008

Good Grief, Gordon Brown!

The Huffington Post

Jul 1, 2008

Just Who’s Doing the Hoarding? Food Independence and Real Democracy

The Huffington Post

Jul 1, 2008

A Shortage of Democracy, Not Food

The Progressive

Jul 1, 2008

The Shortage Isn't Food, It's Democracy

Sojourners Magazine

Jan 1, 2008

Natural Abundance

Shambala Sun Magazine

Oct 16, 2007

The Right to Food Means Freedom From Dogma

The Huffington Post

Oct 16, 2006

Tufts Health and Nutrition Letter—Letter to the Editor

Mollie Katzen Online

Sep 11, 2006

A Right to Food?

The Nation

Apr 1, 2006

Seeing Hunger through New Eyes: From Lack to Possibility

Seeing Hunger through New Eyes-From Lack to Possibility.pdf

Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future

Jan 27, 2006

Thomas Friedman, Are You Listening?

The Huffington Post

Jan 5, 2006

Hunger is Not a Place

The Nation

Oct 14, 2004

The Woman Who Didn't Listen

The Guerrilla News Network

Aug 1, 2004