Anna Lappé’s writings

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Books

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Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (with Bryant Terry), Tarcher/ Penguin, 2006

Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (with Frances Moore Lappé), Tarcher/Penguin, 2002

As contributing author:

Feeding the Future, From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World’s Food Crisis (contributing author; eds. Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon) Anansi Press, 2004

Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America (contributing author; ed, John de Graaf, Berrett-Koehler, 2003

We Got Issues!: A Young Women’s Guide to a Bold, Courageous and Empowered Life (contributing author; eds. Rha Goddess and J-Love Calderon, Inner Ocean: September 2006

WorldChanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century (contributing author; ed. Alex Steffan), Harry N. Abrams Books and designed by Sagmeister Inc.

“Anna Lappe, Food Activist and coauthor, Hope’s Edge,” Around the Table: Women on Food, Cooking, Nourishment, Love....and the Mothers Who Dished It Up for Them (by Lela Nargi, Ed.), Tarcher/Penguin, 2005

“Foreword,” Micro Eco-Farming: Prospering from Backyard to Small Acreage in Partnership with the Earth (by Barbara Berst Adams), New World Publishing, 2005

As contributing editor:

Democracy’s Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life, Jossey-Bass, 2006

You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear (with Jeffrey Perkins), Tarcher/Penguin, 2004

“Foreword,” How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas, Joe Collins, Stephan DeZerega, Zahara Heckscher, Putnam, 2002

Articles, Op-Eds, and Letters to Editors

The S Files: Reports from the cutting edge of sustainability for Spirituality & Health magazine

“Time to Turn the Tables on ‘Big Food’,” New Scientist Magazine, July 15-21 2006

“Dinner Parties on the Front Lines. Hungry for Company,” Edible East End (and other Edible Communities publications), Fall 2006

“Picnic with a Twist: Good for You, Good for the Country,” ABCnews.com, June 30, 2006

“Vote with your Fork: How to Create a Life of Good Grub”, Spirituality & Health, May/June 2006

“The Power of Grub”, World Ark, May/June 2005

Letter to the Editor: Putting the Family Back into Farm, New York Times, March 13, 2005

“Letter to the Editor - How to Put the Family Back in Farm,” The New York Times, March 13, 2005

“Media works: Creative use of the media,” Food & Society, January/February 2005

“Letter to the Editor of The New York Times (unpublished),” January 12, 2005

“What Would Santa Do?” AlterNet, December 25, 2004

“The genius of Wangari Maathai,” (with Frances Moore Lappé), International Herald Tribune, October 14, 2004

“Letter to the Editor,” USA Today, October 4, 2004

“Super Sized Policy Reform,” http://www.mediarights.org, September 2004

“Confronting Big Food,” (with Frances Moore Lappé), The Monterey County Herald, August 2004

“An Interview with Wangari Maathai”, Savoy Magazine, May/June 2004

“A Day in the Life of Democracy Now!,” Clamor Magazine, May/June 2004

“Taking Your First Step,” Spirituality & Health Magazine, May/June 2004

“Unearthing the Misery of Fashion: Shopping with a Conscience,” Conscious Choice, December 2003. Also appeared in other Dragonfly Media outlets.

“The Push/Pull of the Food Movement,” Conscious Choice, October 2003. Also in Whole Life Times, and New Times, among other Dragonfly Media outlets.

Book Review: “Last Meals? How Corporate Power Taints Our Food, Safe Food, Marion Nestle,” San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Book Review, March 30, 2003

Book Review: “Censored 2003,” San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Book Review, January 5, 2003

“Hope’s Edge: Explorations for a Planet on the Brink,” Rootstock Magazine, Fall/Winter 2002

“Of Land and Hope,” (with Frances Moore Lappé), Yes! Magazine, Sept/Oct 2002

“Hope is a Verb,” Brown Alumni Magazine, Sept/Oct 2002

“Organic Diet for a Small Planet,” The Globe and Mail, July 25, 2002

Book Review: “Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents,” San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Book Review, July 22, 2002

“A Better Way to Feed the Hungry,” (with Frances Moore Lappé), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 22, 2002

“Mother’s World of Hope: Lessons for a Small Planet,” The Washington Post, May 9, 2002

“Dispel the Myth That Cheap Food Comes Without High Costs,” (with Frances Moore Lappé), The Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2002

“Fed Up with Unhealthy Food,” (with Frances Moore Lappé), New Jersey Star Ledger, February 2, 2002

“Pushing Hope’s Edge: Rediscovering the Power of Food,” (with Frances Moore Lappé), Response, United Methodist Women’s Magazine, October 2001

“Hope’s Edge: Finding Our Path in Uncertain Times,” (with Frances Moore Lappé), U.N. Chronicle, September-November 2001

“Hunger 30 Years Later: What Have We Learned?” (with Frances Moore Lappé), Wisconsin State Journal, September 2000

Guerrilla News Network Posts

“The woman who didn’t listen,” (with Frances Moore Lappé), Guerrilla News Network, October 14, 2004

“Guerrilla of the Week: An Interview with Melody Ermachild Chavis, author of Meena: Heroine of Afghanistan the Martyr Who Founded RAWA,” August 25, 2003

And many other posts...Visit http://www.gnn.tv to learn more about the Guerilla News Network.

Reports

“Transforming Media, Inc.: Media’s Power to Shape the Public Mind and New Opportunities to Reclaim It,” White Paper, Unpublished, October 2003, revised April 2004. Available on request.