Getting a Grip—Gaining Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want

"Getting a Grip—Gaining Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want" Frances Moore Lappé

Monday, April 5, 2010 Frances Moore Lappé shares her journey to answer the question, "Why are we as societies creating a world of hunger and eco-devastation that none of us as individuals would choose?" Because we are creatures of the mind, she says, it is the power of frame--our core assumptions about how the world works--that determine what we can see and what we believe to be possible. She identifies the dominant, disempowering frame now driving our planet toward disaster. Then, interweaving fresh insights, startling facts, and stirring vignettes of ordinary people she shares a new, empowering frame through which real solutions are emerging worldwide. Above all, she enables us to see what is happening all around us but is still invisible to most of us, people in all walks of life reversing the spiral of despair with new ideas, ingenious innovation--and courage. Frances Moore Lappé is a democracy advocate and world food and hunger expert who has authored or co-authored 17 books. She is the co-founder of three organizations, including Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy and, more recently, the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé. In 1987 she received the Right Livelihood Award (a.k.a, the "Alternative Nobel.") Her first book, Diet for a Small Planet, has sold three million copies and is considered "the blueprint for eating with a small carbon footprint since long before the term was coined" by JM Hirsch of Associated Press; and the Women's National Book Association chose it among 75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World. In 2008, Gourmet Magazine named Lappé among 25 people (including Thomas Jefferson, Upton Sinclair and Julia Child) whose work has changed the way America eats. Luther S. and Dorothy Cecilia Cressman Lecture in the Humanities.

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Great speech and great ideas for a better future. Greetings, love and support from Italy!