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Diet for a Small Planet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 528

Diet for a Small Planet

The book that started a revolution in the way Americans eat The extraordinary book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating is still a complete guide for eating well in the twenty-first century. Sharing her personal evolution and how this groundbreaking book changed her own life, world-renowned food expert Frances Moore Lappé offers an all-new, even more fascinating philosophy on changing yourself—and the world—by changing the way you eat. The Diet for a Small Planet features: • simple rules for a healthy diet • streamlined, easy-to-use format • food combinations that make delicious, protein-rich meals without meat • indispensable kitchen hints—a comprehensive reference guide for planning and preparing meals and snacks • hundreds of wonderful recipes

World Hunger
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

World Hunger

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-02-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

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; trade liberalization and free trade agreements; famine and humanitarian interventions; and the thrid worldization of developed nations.

Hope's Edge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

Hope's Edge

"Hope's Edge" follows the author of the classic "Diet for a Small Planet" and her daughter as they travel the world, discovering practical visionaries who are making a difference in world hunger, sometimes one village at a time.

What to Do After You Turn Off the TV
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

What to Do After You Turn Off the TV

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Contains activities for the whole family and includes arts, crafts, cooking, storytelling, simple games, and more.

Democracy's Edge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 493

Democracy's Edge

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 is a rousing battle cry that we can--and must--act now. From Jefferson to Eisenhower, presidents from both parties have warned us of the danger of letting a closed, narrow group of business and government officials concentrate power over our lives. Yet today, a small and unrepresentative group of people is making vital decisions for all of us. But...

Diet for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary Edition)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 524

Diet for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary Edition)

The book that started a revolution in the way Americans eat The extraordinary book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating is still a complete guide for eating well in the twenty-first century. Sharing her personal evolution and how this groundbreaking book changed her own life, world-renowned food expert Frances Moore Lappé offers an all-new, even more fascinating philosophy on changing yourself—and the world—by changing the way you eat. The Diet for a Small Planet features: • simple rules for a healthy diet • streamlined, easy-to-use format • food combinations that make delicious, protein-rich meals without meat • indispensable kitchen hints—a comprehensive reference guide for planning and preparing meals and snacks • hundreds of wonderful recipes

Food First
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

Food First

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1980
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The scarcity scare; Blaming nature; Colonial inheritance; Modernizing hunger; The inefficiency of inequality; The trade game; USA - Breadbasket of the world; World hunger as big business; The helping handout: AID for whom; Food self reliance.

Diet for a Hot Planet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Diet for a Hot Planet

Forty years after her mother's work changed the way we eat, Anna Lappé's Diet for a Hot Planet changed the way we think about food production and global warming. Fifty years ago, Frances Moore Lappé's Diet for a Small Planet sparked a revolution in thinking about the social and environmental impact of what we eat. Ten years ago, her daughter, Anna Lappé, controversially picked up the conversation with Diet for a Hot Planet, examining another hidden cost of our food choices: the climate crisis. Lappé predicted that food system-related greenhouse gas emissions would be catastrophic unless we radically shifted the trends of what we ate and how we produced it. She exposed the political inter...

Getting a Grip 2
  • Language: en

Getting a Grip 2

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Thoroughly revised for the new decade"--Cover.

Diet for a Small Planet (Revised and Updated)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 513

Diet for a Small Planet (Revised and Updated)

Discover a way of eating that revolutionized the meaning of our food choices and sold more than 3 million copies—now in a 50th-anniversary edition with a timely introduction plus new and updated plant-centered recipes “Frances Moore Lappé is one of the few people who can credibly be said to have changed the way we eat—and one of an even smaller group to have done it for the better.”—The New York Times In 1971, Diet for a Small Planet broke new ground, revealing how our everyday acts are a form of power to create health for ourselves and our planet. This extraordinary book first exposed the needless waste built into a meat-centered diet. Now, in a special edition for its 50th anniv...