What would the world look like if everyone had access to healthy food and we all knew where our groceries came from?
Frances Moore Lappé can speak to that. She started a revolution about food, climate and health for people and the planet 50 years ago with her best-selling book "Diet for a Small Planet". It was the first major book to note the environmental impact of meat production as a contributor to global food scarcity. Michael Pollan, the author of the hugely influential 2006 book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, calls Lappe’s work “one of the most visionary books of the last 50 years”.
It's no secret that our agricultural systems need to adapt to climate change. Lappé and her daughter, author of "Diet for a Hot Planet", Anna Lappé, have spent their careers advocating for food justice and sustainability. Join us for an engaging discussion about the intersection of our food systems and climate change with these two amazing changemakers. They will talk about how what is on our plates affects our health and our planet, and how our everyday acts are a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.
About Frances: Frances Moore Lappé is the author or co-author of twenty books about world hunger, living democracy, and the environment, beginning with the three-million-copy Diet for a Small Planet in 1971. She has been featured on the Today show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Fox & Friends, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, the CBC and BBC, and other news outlets. Frances is the cofounder of three organizations including the Oakland-based think tank Food First and the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter, Anna Lappé. The pair also cofounded the Small Planet Fund, which channels resources to democratic social movements worldwide.
About Anna: Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author, a respected advocate for food justice and sustainability, and an advisor to funders investing in food system transformation. A recipient of the James Beard Leadership Award, Anna is the co-author or author of three books, including Diet for a Hot Planet, and the contributing author to more than a dozen others. Named one of TIME’s “eco” Who’s-Who, Anna is the founder or co-founder of three national organizations, including the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund, which she launched with her mother.