In the News

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

New to the Site

Diet for a Hot Planet Tour

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Interested in hosting a Diet for a Hot Planet event? Want to know if Anna is coming to a spot near you? Contact Kate: kate[at]smallplanet.org.

“Toward a Post-Carbon Food System” Resource Posted

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Check out the new Resource we’ve posted, The Food and Farming Transition: Toward a Post-Carbon Food System, by Richard Heinberg and Michael Bomford of the Post Carbon Institute. The report focuses on transitioning our food system away from it’s current dependance on fossil fuels.

“Failure to Yield” Resource Posted

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Check out the new Resource we’ve posted, Failure to Yield, a report by Doug Gurian-Sherman of the Union of Concerned Scientists. The report focuses on the failure of genetically engineered crops to increase yields, and the challenges ahead for the global food system.

New “Agriculture and Development” Resource

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Check out the new Resource we’ve posted, an IAASTD report which explores the intersection between agricultural science and hunger and poverty, in an attempt to “improve rural livelihoods, and foster equitable and sustainable development.”

“Voices from Africa” Resource Posted

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Check out the new Resource we’ve posted, an Oakland Institute report which gives voice to African farmers and environmental activists who seek to challenge “Western-led plans for a genetically engineered revolution in African agriculture.”

Q+A With Yifat Susskind of MADRE

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Anna interviews Yifat Susskind of MADRE about women, agriculture and climate change. Read the Q+A here.

Q+A with Mia MacDonald of Brighter Green

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Anna interviews Mia MacDonald of Brighter Green about factory farming in China. Read the Q+A here.

Q+A with Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Anna interviews Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig, climate change scientist with NASA. Read the Q+A here.

Q + A With Roni Neff

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Anna interviewed Roni Neff, Research and Policy Director at Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. Read the Q+A here.

Primer on Food and Climate Change

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Check out this primer on Food and Climate Change, from our friends at Sustainable Table.

Understanding the Food System and Global Warming

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Check out these key terms to better understand the food system and global warming.

A Smash Hit!

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Our annual auction and party, which was held at COLORS Restaurant on December 8th, was a huge success! We were so honored to be able to further support our amazing core grantees and the work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.

See photos from the event here.

Yesterday’s dinner, tomorrow’s weather, today’s news? US newspaper coverage of food system contributions to climate change

Friday, October 10th, 2008

New Report

Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Sign your name to the Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture

Sign The WHO Farm Petition

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

http://www.thewhofarm.org

New Brighter Green Report on China

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Skillful Means: The Challenges of China’s Encounter with Factory Farming
English
Chinese

Farm Fresh Zucchini and Fusilli Pasta Recipe

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Conscious Cravers tempt our tastebuds with this month’s recipe: Farm Fresh Zucchini and Fusilli Pasta

New Resources Posted

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

We’ve added some of our favorite new resources on climate change and agriculture. Take a look.

Conscious Cravers Take a Bite

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Our friends over at Conscious Cravers are partnering with us to offer you delectable tips on climate-friendly dining. They’ll be posting here soon. Stay tuned.