The Small Planet Institute Newsroom
December 7, 2011
From this day forward, for the latest media on Anna Lappé, please visit:
http://www.smallplanetinstitute.org/newsroom
The Nation
October 3, 2011
Anna, along with an all-star line-up–including Frances, Raj Patel, Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser–puts together a special issue, What Next for the Global Food Movement?, looking at forty years of food activism.
mLive.com
June 8, 2011
Earlier this year, Anna Lappé was contacted by a PR firm working for Dow Chemical to contribute a 60-second video for the Future We Create virtual conference on water sustainability the company launches today. As a vocal advocate for strict regulation of toxic chemicals — especially for food and farming — Anna was surprised the company would approach her. See what else she says!
Civil Eats
June 7, 2011
Earlier this year, Anna Lappé was contacted by a PR firm working for Dow Chemical to contribute a 60-second video for the Future We Create virtual conference on water sustainability the company launches today. As a vocal advocate for strict regulation of toxic chemicals — especially for food and farming — Anna was surprised the company would approach her. See what else she says!
The Atlantic
March 28th, 2011
Monsanto recently announced the latest genetically engineered crop it hopes to bring to market: a soybean rejiggered to resist the herbicide dicamba. Read what Anna has to say about the impact genetic modification has on our food system.
Huffington Post
January 21st, 2011
Walmart recently made headlines with its joint announcement with the White House that the company will be cutting back on sodium and sugar in some of its products and taking other steps to address hunger and malnourishment. But should we take their PR blitz with a grain of salt? Read Anna’s take here.
CSR Wire Talkback
January 20th, 2011
Click here to read Anna’s blog, Eat the Sky: The Food and Climate Connection, where she addresses how exactly big ag is destroying our environment and what we can do to support climate-friendly farming systems.
The Journal of the American Public Gardens Association
January 2011
In her article, Digging in the Dirt, Cooling the Planet, Anna offers a simple five-step solution we can each follow to decrease the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Need to Know on PBS
December 17, 2010
With the economy, unemployment, and the war in Afghanistan in mind, Anna was asked by Need to Know on PBS what simple thing she would do to get this country moving again. Watch what Anna, along with some of this country’s brightest thinkers, says will fix America.
Need to Know on PBS
November 14, 2010
Hear a podcast about sustainable eating which features Anna. Learn about the impact of livestock on the environment.
The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC
September 17, 2010
Listen to Anna’s interview with Brian Lehrer of WNYC about the push to change the name of High Fructose Corn Syrup.
Kirkus Book Reviews
June 24, 2010
Diet for a Hot Planet is named best of 2010 on the Kirkus Book Review list. Kirkus calls Diet for a Hot Planet “An essential toolkit for readers looking for a pragmatic climate-response action plan of their own.”
CNN-TV
June 23, 2010
Anna was interviewed by VICE for a television story about the Gulf oil spill: “Spirits fade as oil spill questions go unanswered”
The New York Times
May 6, 2010
Anna Lappé, along with Michael Pollan, Stephen Powles, Blake Hurst, Scott M. Swinton, and
Micheal D.K. Owen, respond to a New York Times article about the growth of herbicide-resistant “superweeds” in the U.S., largely fueled by broad use of the weedkiller glyphosphate, particularly Roundup, originally made by Monsanto. What can be done about this problem? Read the responses.
Foreign Policy Magazine
April 29, 2010
Anna responds to Robert Paarlberg’s defense of industrial agriculture as the best way to feed the world and his criticism that organic agriculture is an “elite preoccupation.” In her rebuttal piece, Anna explains the very research findings that prove organic farming is a sustainable way to feed the world, and dismantles Paarlberg’s fear tactics aimed at scaring readers – and eaters – into believing that industrial ag is the only way.
Everyday with Rachael Ray
April 2010
Build A Better Sammy: Anna remakes an old favorite – the turkey club sandwich – in a climate-friendly way.
WNYC Radio – The Leonard Lopate Show – Food, Farming and France
December 11, 2009
Anna joined Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and NYU Professor Marion Nestle to talk about the Food and Climate Summit, which was held at NYU in December in partnership with Just Food.
WNYC Radio – The Brian Lehrer Show: Food Plan
September 8, 2009
Anna and Sam Lipschultz, a Real Food Challenge alum from Sarah Lawrence College, talked about dining hall food activism.
The Washington Post
March 4, 2010
Anna presented to a crowd of more than 100 regional gardeners and foodies at the annual Green Matters Symposium at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton. Her take-home message: The main culprit causing climate change isn’t the Hummer; it’s the hamburger.
Glamour Magazine
April 2009
Anna donned jeans and cowboy boots and trekked out to Central Park for a Glamour photo shoot of eco-women. She stood alongside superstars like Christie Brinkley and Alicia Silverstone as well as eco-heroines like Alice Waters and Jane Houlihan, from Environmental Working Group.
The New York Times Magazine
October 2008
Anna headed to Brooklyn’s Red Hook farm for this feature on Food Fighters in the Grey Lady’s Sunday mag.
O Magazine
August 2008
O Magazine’s Celia Barbour turns to Anna Lappé to help describe the sustainable food movement.
WNYC Radio – The Brian Lehrer Show: Upside to High Prices?
April 2008
Anna joined author Nina Planck to discuss whether or not high prices equal healthier food.
Conscious Choice
December 2007
Anna travels to sustainable farming villages in China and gives us the low-down on the future of food, and what organic means, in world’s most populous country.
The Small Planet Institute Newsroom
December 7, 2011
From this day forward, for the latest media on Anna Lappé, please visit:
http://www.smallplanetinstitute.org/newsroom
07/14/11 – Conversations with Charlie Dyer Anna Lappé, author, Diet for a Hot Planet
6/8/11 – mLive.com What Dow Chemical doesn’t want you to know about your water
6/7/11 – Civil Eats What Dow Chemical doesn’t want you to know about your water
1/21/11 – Huffington Post Why We Should Question Walmart’s Latest PR Blitz
1/20/11 – CSRwire Talkback Eat the Sky: The Food and Climate Connection
1/11 – The Journal of the American Public Gardens Association Digging in the Dirt, Cooling the Planet
1/13/2011 – Guardian UK World hunger best cured by small-scale agriculture: report
12/17/10 – Need to Know on PBS How to Fix America
11/16/10 – Need to Know on PBS Turkey can be climate friendly; spinach, not so much
11/26/10 – Adventures in Climate Change Conversation with Anna
11/11/10 – Santa Monica Mirror
“What Say You: Thought for Food”
9/30/10 – KOPN Food Sleuth Radio
9/20/10 – The Atlantic
Don’t Sugar-Coat High-Fructose Corn Syrup
9/17/10 – The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC
Formerly Known as “High Fructose Corn Syrup”
8/28/10 – New York Times
Anna’s Letter to the Editor in response to Math Lessons for Locavores
8/26/10 – Foreign Policy Association
Five Questions for…Anna Lappé
8/22/10 – Grist
Do Locavores Really Need Math Lessons?
8/20/10 – Huffington Post
3 Pillars of a Food Revolution
8/20/10 – Grist
Three pillars of a food revolution
8/19/10 – YES! Magazine
Ecology, Community, Fairness: 3 Pillars of a Food Revolution
8/18/10 – Tree Hugger
7 Must-Read New Books for Sustainable Eating
8/10/10 – MSN’s Practical Guide to Healthier Living
Green Parenting: The Difference is Community
8/7/10 – The Vancouver Sun
“Greenhouse gas in the kitchen” – review of Diet for a Hot Planet
Summer 2010 – Edible Austin
Blinded by the Bite: 5 Reasons Why We’ve Missed the Food and Climate Change Connection
by Anna Lappé
7/21/10 – Zester Daily
Debunking Myths About Agriculture
7/19/10 – Mother Jones
Is Vegetarianism Always Better for the Planet Than Eating Meat?
7/9/10 – Organic Trade Association
Q&A with Anna Lappé
7/7/10 – GreenLiving on ABC7
Solving the climate crisis at the end of your fork
7/6/10 -Journey Home Radio Show
Hosted by Diego Mulligan on Santa Fe Public Radio
7/1/10 – IATP Media
Listen to Anna and Frances on Radio Sustain
7/1/10 – WPR, Madison.
Joy Cardin interviews Anna on the morning show.
6/24/10 – Edible Communities
It’s Lappé Day on Edible Radio!
06/24/10 – Kirkus Book Reviews Best of 2010
6/21/10 – C-Span Book TV
Anna Lappé and Frances Moore Lappé at the Commonwealth Club
6/19/10 – KCRW
Anna on “Good Food”
6/16/10 – Writer’s Voice
Kicking the Dirty Fuels Habit
6/14/10 – KBOO
Locus Focus Interview
6/14/10 – Reality Sandwich
Food and Global Warming: The Silent Treatment
6/8/10 – The Nation
Q&A with Tom Philpott
5/26/10 – Conscious Talk Radio
“Radio That Makes a Difference”
5/26/10 – Audubon Magazine
Diet for a Hot Planet named one of top 11 climate change books
5/20/10 – WRHU
Anna on Hofstra’s “Morning Wake Up Call”
5/19/10 – Big Vision Media
Interview with Anna Lappé – download the podcast here or read the transcript
5/11/10 – Take Part
Take Part’s Commencement Speaker Dream Team
5/9/10 – Commonwealth Club
Anna Lappé and Frances Moore Lappé with Raj Patel
5/6/10 – The New York Times
Room for Debate: The Overuse of Weedkillers
5/6/10 – The Econews Report
Northcoast Environmental Center
5/4/10 – Net Green News Video Feature
Food and Climate: Notes from Author Anna Lappé
5/3/10 – KBOO-FM
Anna on Portland’s Community Radio Station
4/29/10 – Grist.org
Ask Umbra dishes with Anna Lappé
4/29/10 – Foreign Policy
Don’t panic, go organic: Be not troubled by Robert Paarlberg’s scaremongering. Organic practices can feed the world — better, in fact, than wasteful industrial farming.
A rebuttal article by Anna Lappé
4/27/10 – WGBH video
Anna Lappé & Frances Moore Lappé at Brattle Theatre
4/27/10 – Boston Globe
Their earthly concerns: Bill McKibben and Anna Lappé talk about their new books
4/22/10 – Take Part
10 Green Books to Read for Earth Day
4/22/10 – Aol’s Lemon Drop
It’s Earth Day! Meet 10 Amazing Women Trying to Save the Planet
4/14/10 – Take Part
Media That Inspires: Anna Lappé
4/14/10 – Commonwealth Club of California
Climate and Food: In conversation with Anna Lappé and Frances Moore Lappé
4/8/10 – Colorado’s Progressive Talk Radio AM 760
Anna talks Diet for a Hot Planet – download the podcast here.
4/5/10 – Alternet
What You’re Eating Could Make or Break Our Planet – 7 Principles of a Climate-Friendly Diet
3/31/10 – Civil Eats
The Delicious Way to Take on Climate Change: Anna Lappé Talks Diet for a Hot Planet
3/28/10 – Salon
The five least green “green food” claims
3/26/10 – Toronto Star
How food contributes to global warming, daughter continues mother’s conversation
3/22/10 – Edible Brooklyn, Spring 2010
Taking a Bite Out of Climate Change – Q&A with Anna Lappé
3/22/10 – Everyday with Rachael Ray
Build a Better Sammy
3/17/10 – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The climate for eating well
3/12/10 – La Vida Locavore
Book Recommendation: Diet for a Hot Planet
Blog by Jill Richardson; also appeared on Fire Dog Lake
3/11/10 – Mother Nature Network
‘Diet for a Hot Planet’ author has a recipe for eating responsibly
3/4/10 – Washington Post
Author cites food production as villain in climate change
3/4/10 – Nutrition Talk Radio, Tufts University
Communicating Ideas about Agriculture Food and the Environment
2/24/10 – Ladies’ Home Journal
Ladies We Love
2/24/10 – Huffington Post
Tips for Taking the Principles of Eating In on the Road
2/23/10 – Huffington Post
So far, so good
2/22/10 – Huffington Post
Dispatch 1: The Challenge of Eating In
3/04/10 – The Washington Post Author cites food production as villain in climate change
11/18/09 – ABC 7
Check out this yummy apple pie recipe from the Joy of Cooking, adapted with green-twists the whole way through.
3/9/09 – Huffington Post
The Secret — I Saw, Close-up, the Real Root of Global Economic Collapse
6/21/09 – New York Magazine
Frances Moore Lappé: The Movement Mother
6/18/09 – Social Earth
Hungry For Truth? See the Film Food, Inc.
6/16/09 – La Vida Locavore
Book Review: Food, Inc.
5/29/09 – The X Journals: The Search for Tomorrow’s Technologies
Frances Moore Lappé: Challenging Simple Concepts Can Save the Planet
5/21/09 – Brooklyn Food Conference blog
Closing Forum: Anna Lappé’s Speech
5/9/09 – Slow Food USA
Featured Event
5/4/09 – Sustainable Food blog at Change.org
Three Generations in Brooklyn
5/4/09 – Civil Eats
Brooklyn Food Conference Takes to the Streets
4/28/09 – Local Gourmands Blog
Local Gourmands
4/25/09 – In Search of Good Food
Food and Society Conference: Year 2, Day 2
4/24/09 – Memphis Flyer
Food for the Soul
4/24/09 – WBAI Wake Up Call, 8:30 am
4/24/09 – Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn Food Conference: Democratizing Your Lunch
4/23/09 – Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn
Brooklyn Food Conference on May 2nd: A Taste of Things to Come
4/22/09 – Sustainable Food at Change.org
Sustainable Food Reading List
4/22/09 – Huffington Post
A Revolution is Growing
4/21/09 – GoDairyFree.org
The Dairy Free Library: Earth Day-Worthy Books for Food Lovers
4/21/09 – The New Green
WHY Hunger and the Brooklyn Food Conference
4/21/09 – Oregon Live
Your Climate Friendly Kitchen
4/18/09 – Flatbush Farm Share
Food Movement Leaders Have Their Say- In Under Five Minutes
4/16/09 – Tree Hugger
Meet the Faces of the Food Movement
4/15/09 – Courier Post Online
OUT With Meat on Mondays!
4/15/09 – Cloud Computing Journal
Obama Urged to Bring Back National
Meatless Program
4/6/09 – Feed Me Like You Mean It
Book Club Archives
4/1/09 – Glamour Magazine
70 New Reasons to Live Green
3/9/09 – Huffington Post
The Secret– I Saw, Close-up, the Real Root of Global Economic Collapse
ABC reports that the First Family is digging in close to home.
Read all about it in The Times, too!
3/5/09 – The Growing Edge
How To Tell If Packaged Food Is Organic
3/4/09 – Winston-Salem Journal
Green Food: Author says return to small farms would help environment
2/27/09 – Natural Organic Makeup
How To Choose Organic
Skin and Beauty Products
2/27/09 – The Irresistible Fleet of Bicycles
Anna Lappe’s Letter to Oxfam
2/24/09 – Sustainable Home
Green Building: What Do You Do
When You Go Inside?
2/20/09 – Eat Well Guide
McDonalds in China
2/19/09 – Energy Bulletin
China’s Growing Appetite
for a US-Style Meat Production
2/19/09 – Santa Barbara Independent
Be Democratic and Eat Less Meat
2/19/09 – SustaiNYC
Brooklyn Food Conference
2/19/09 – The Ethicurean
It Ain’t Pretty Being Piggy
2/18/09 – Ag Observatory
The CAFO Syndrome
2/17/09 – Grist
“The CAFO syndrome:
An interview with Mia MacDonald on China’s growing appetite for U.S.-style meat production”
2/6/09 – The Indypendent
A Taste for Change: Brooklyn Food Conference Organizers Step up to the Plate
2/4/09 – MyMADRE
Climate Change is Not Gender-Neutral
1/21/09 – Mother Nature Network
Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen By Anna Lappé and Bryant Terry
12/23/08 – Eat Well Guide
Lowering Your Carbon Footprint
12/16/08 – Democracy Now!
Farmers and Food Advocates Urge Obama
12/8/08 – Grist
Crunch Time for USDA Pick
12/5/08 – Green Brooklyn
Brooklyn Sustainable Food Advocates Sign Letter to Obama On New Ag Secretary
12/1/08 – Experience Life Magazine
In Praise of Plenty
11/13/08 – Grecourt Gate News (Smith College)
Julia Child Day To Put Local Food On the Plate
11/13/08 – Grecourt Gate News (Smith College)
Q+A with Anna
11/12/08 – Sustainable Table
Featured Climate Change article
11/7/08 – Grist
An Elevator Pitch for President Obama
11/7/08 – Vanessa Barrington
The 13 Most Dynamic Minds in Food Politics You Should Know
10/15/08 – Grist – Neff Roni
Where’s the Beef?
10/12/08 – New York Times – Christine Muhlke
Food Fighters
10/08/08 – Delicious Living
“Taking a Bite out of Global Warming” feature in Delicious Living
9/26/08 – Fora.tv – Mark Hertsgaard
Climate Change and Food Panel at Slow Food Nation
9/15/08 – Grist – Tom Philpott
Slow Food Nation interview: Anna Lappé
Why climate change may have more to do with your shopping cart than your car
9/12/08 – Green Air Radio – Rich Awn
Superheroes: Exclusive Interview with Anna Lappé
9/11/08 – Earth News – Debra Kahn
Can We Shorten the Lengthy Journey from Farm to DinnerPlate?
9/10/08 – O the Oprah Magazine – Celia Barbour
A Delicious Revolution
9/3/08 – GNN.tv – Shephard Bliss
Beneath the Surface
8/30/08 – Huffington Post – Kerry Trueman
Lancing a Slow Boil
8/2/08 – New York Times – Anna Lappé
Letter to the Editor: “If We Are What We Eat, Let’s Be Kind”
7/11/08 – GritTV
Anna on the Food Crisis
7/2/08 – New Scientist – Anna Lappé
Review: The End of Food by Paul Roberts and Eat Your Heart Out by Felicity Lawrence
7/1/08 – Green Patriot Radio – David Steinman
Greening Your Food
July/August – Spirituality & Health Magazine – Anna Lappé
Sustainability Notebook: Build Organic Farms to Soak Up Carbon
July/August – Sierra Magazine – Reed McManus
Lazy Day Lit
6/22/08 – San Francisco Gate – Anna Lappé
’End of Food’–It’s the System, Stupid
May/June 2008 – Organic Connections – Anna Lappé
How Grub Can Change Your Life and Our World
May/June 2008 – Mothering Magazine – Anna Lappé
Getcha Grub on: Recipes (& music!) for Vibrant Vegetarian Fare
6/1/08 – Times Argus Online
Food, Fuel, Future
5/14/08 – Newsday – Sylvia Carter
Saving the Earth One Bite at a Time
5/2/08 – Martha Stewart Morning Living Radio – Betsey Karetnick
How Food Affects Global Warming
May 2008 – Vegetarian Times – Hillary Dowdle
Profile: Frances and Anna Lappé
4/28/08 – Reuters – Terri Coles
Go Green and Cut out the Red Meat
4/22/08 – Grist – Anna Lappé
Get That Green Collar Dirty
4/22/08 – RadioActive KRCL 90.9
Celebrate Earth Day with RadioActive
4/20/08 – CBC News Sunday with Evan Soloman
World Food Crisis
4/16/08 – Blogher.com – Elissa Camahort
Earth Day Every Day
4/2/08 – The New York Times – Kim Severson
Some Good News Food Prices
April/May 2008 – Plenty
How Will You Celebrate Earth Day 2008?
3/13/08 – Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Anna Lappé
There’s a Homegrown Way to Address Climate Change
March 2008 – New Scientist – Anna Lappé
Review: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
February 2008 – Huffington Post – Anna Lappé
Largest Meat Recall in History, Now Real Change?
December 2007 – Body + Soul Magazine
Organic Food and You
December 2007 – Conscious Choice – Anna Lappé
We Are What China Eats
