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The Hornet
November 2, 2017
However, it really took off in the 70's when Frances Moore Lappe had his book Diet for a Small Planet published. A plant-based diet consists of ...
Valley News
October 7, 2017
... founder of the Small Planet Institute and author of 18 books, including Diet for a Small Planet; Melissa Scanlan, director of the New Economy ...
NPR
September 22, 2016
When Frances Moore Lappe wrote the best-selling Diet For A Small Planet back in 1971, she helped start a conversation about the social and ...
Huffington Post
November 10, 2015
In 2008 Diet for a Small Planet was selected as one of 75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World by members of the Women's National Book ...
EcoWatch
March 17, 2017
The revolutionary Diet for a Small Planet was just the beginning of Moore Lappe's contributions to changing the food system.
San Francisco Chronicle
March 16, 2017
Books like Michael Pollan's "Omnivore's Dilemma" and Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" have galvanized shoppers in the same way Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and Frances Moore Lappe's "Diet For a Small Planet" did in the 1960s andÃÂ ...
KQED
February 22, 2017
The influential anti-meat treatise Diet For A Small Planet had come out a decade earlier, and people were ready for easy ways to eat less meat.
Press Herald
February 19, 2017
And in the early 1970s, Frances Moore Lappe famously advocated for eating more beans (and other meat-free meals) as a way to help the earth in her best-selling "Diet for a Small Planet." But in the age of global warming, Jason says it's a missive that ...
Wicked Local Lexington
December 7, 2016
"I was really influenced by Frances Moore Lappe's 'Diet for a Small Planet' and the idea that meat production uses so much of earth's resources -- parts of the rainforest have been given up for cattle grazing!
Glens Falls Post-Star
November 3, 2016
In college, after reading a book called "Diet for a Small Planet," I became a vegetarian. My commitment to the cause lasted for only a couple of years, until I moved into an illegal little apartment an older couple had created out of their garage ...
Treehugger
October 15, 2016
Given that it's 45 years since the publication of Diet for a Small Planet, and given that meat consumption appears to be on the rise in the US again, advocates for reducing our dependence on animal agriculture are going to need all the tools they can ...
Raise the Hammer
October 14, 2016
As a teenager, I read Frances Moore Lappe's book, Diet for a Small Planet. I remember thinking it made complete sense to reduce meat consumption in order to improve global food security.
Buffalo Rising
September 27, 2016
If you're into healthy eating for all of the right reasons, then there is a gal about town that you need to get to know. Her name is Jessica Meyers Altman, and she's considered one of the top plant-based diet activists/experts in the area.
NPR
September 22, 2016
When Frances Moore Lappe wrote the best-selling Diet For A Small Planet back in 1971, she helped start a conversation about the social and environmental impacts of the foods we choose.
Wiarton Echo
September 6, 2016
In the classic book, Diet for a Small Planet, it was proven in 1971 that, if managed properly, the planet has enough resources to feed everyone.
OnMilwaukee.com
August 31, 2016
Ironically, Milwaukee's most famous vegetarian restaurant was torn down - and founder Henry L. Nunn passed away at age 94 - just as the publication of Frances Moore Lappe's "Diet for a Small Planet" was sparking new national interest in a vegetarianÃÂ ...
Payson Roundup
August 19, 2016
#Today's 10 highest grossing box office releases are about animals, including: "Finding Dory," "The Jungle Book," "Zootopia," "The Secret Life of Pets," and "Kung Fu Panda.
YES! Magazine
July 25, 2016
Disapproval ratings of both major-party candidates are higher than we've seen in decades. Millions are livid about Trump's lies and let down by Hillary Clinton and her party's now-exposed bashing of Bernie Sanders.
Anderson Valley
July 22, 2016
"In the early days we were all reading Diet for a Small Planet. There was always an element of New Age connected to the Back-to-the-Land movement.
Forest Hills Connection (registration) (blog)
June 20, 2016
The author of Diet for a Small Planet is coming to UDC next week for a talk at a major sustainability and ecology conference, and the community is invited.
United Church Observer
June 3, 2016
Read this: Diet for a Small Planet, by Frances Moore Lappe. This 1971 visionary classic has its own research institute attached now, and a richly resourced website.
Huffington Post
June 2, 2016
... in America and Western Europe at a time when it was all but unthinkable further east: the Soviet bloc discouraged anything that looked like a subculture, and Leninist cuisine was closer to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle than to Diet for a Small Planet ...
TakePart
May 27, 2016
Forty-five years after the publication of the best-seller Diet for a Small Planet, researchers from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the Food Climate Research Network at the University of Oxford echoed what author Frances MooreÃÂ ...
Alaska Dispatch News
May 8, 2016
Renideo went from being a vegetarian to being vegan in 1990 after reading a book called "Diet For a Small Planet" that emphasizes eating less meat in order to deal with world hunger.
Huffington Post
April 19, 2016
Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet and 17 other books, joined the march from Philadelphia to DC, spoke at a rally, and participated in the civil disobedience arrest.
The Guardian
April 6, 2016
The goal of the fund is to eventually replace animal agriculture with plant-based and cultured alternatives, according to Friedrich, who has been a vegan since reading Diet for a Small Planet as a teenager. Friedrich and Cooney operate out of ...
Buffalo News
April 1, 2016
The New York Council for the Humanities has joined forces with the Buffalo Museum of Science to offer "The Serious Side of Food," a free reading and discussion series that starts next week.
Buffalo News
March 29, 2016
Session 4 - "Diet for A Small Planet," by Frances Moore Lappe, 1 to 3 p.m., May 4. Preregistration is required by Monday.
The Post
March 23, 2016
When Frances arrived in Athens, she said the area surprised her by how many people truly wanted to contribute to the town's well-being.
Buffalo News
April 1, 2016
The New York Council for the Humanities has joined forces with the Buffalo Museum of Science to offer "The Serious Side of Food," a free reading and discussion series that starts next week.
Buffalo News
March 29, 2016
Session 4 - "Diet for A Small Planet," by Frances Moore Lappe, 1 to 3 p.m., May 4. Preregistration is required by Monday.
The Post
March 23, 2016
When Frances arrived in Athens, she said the area surprised her by how many people truly wanted to contribute to the town's well-being.
The Stanford Daily
February 23, 2016
John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods Market, and Bruce Friedrich, the executive director of The Good Food Institute and founding partner of New Crop Capital, will be participating in a debate on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Harvard Crimson
February 11, 2016
Starting with the 1971 publication of "Diet for a Small Planet," the idea that being vegetarian is better for the environment has become conventional wisdom.
Chico News & Review
February 11, 2016
Soon after I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, my sound bite became: "Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but by a scarcity of democracy.
Cantech Letter
December 29, 2015
On the other side of the ledger, vegetarians have believed for years, thanks to books like "Diet for a Small Planet" and ex-California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking at the recent COP21 conference, that adopting a vegetarian diet is the best ...
The Japan Times
December 21, 2015
Please read Diet for a Small Planet (US book) on vegetarian eating. It is not lacking in efficacy. Red meat has recently been found carcinogenic.
FoodNavigator-USA.com
December 15, 2015
An influential early book on the subject of vegetarianism in the United States titled Diet for a Small Planet included detailed charts of which plant proteins to combine in what ratios to get a complete suite of essential amino acids.
