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Frances Moore Lappe

Frances Moore Lappe

The Gary Null Show – Frances Moore Lappe – 10/12/12

CONVERSATIONS WITH REMARKABLE MINDS The GMO debate, recent experiences in India with Vandana Shiva Frances Moore Lappe is the author of 16 books, including her 1971 bestseller Diet for a Small Planet which influenced millions of people about the causes of hunger and the food choices we make. Since then …

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All Together Now – EcoMind: The Ecology of Democracy – 09/13/12

A talk with Frances Moore Lappé about her newest book, EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want, which identifies 7 “thought traps” that keep us from taking effective action to solve collective problems, as well as 7 “thought leaps” that free us from constraining assumptions (smallplanet.org); campaign finance …

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Frances Moore Lappe – Free Your (Eco)Mind

Gradually it’s dawned on me: We humans are creatures of the mind. We perceive the world according to our core, often unacknowledged, assumptions. They determine, literally, what we can see and what we cannot. Nothing so wrong with that, perhaps—except that, in this crucial do-or-die moment, we’re stuck with a mental …