We seek to identify the root causes – economic, political, and psychological – taking our planet in a disastrous direction that, individually, none of us would choose. We then search for exemplary entry points that are already breaking negative causal patterns and helping to generate new, more life-serving ones. Appreciating that we humans are social mimics, the Small Planet Institute seeks to spread the stories of these positive entry points and, just as important, to disseminate a wider understanding of root causes. With a causal framework in mind, citizens no longer view their actions disparagingly as “mere drops in the bucket.” Once we’re able to see the “bucket,” we realize our drops are quite spectacular; the bucket is actually filling up.
» AkPIRG
» The Alliance for Democracy
» American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA)
» As You Sow Foundation
» Bioneers
» Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)
» Center for Working Capital
» Citizens Trade Campaign
» Class Action
» Clean Clothes Connection- Peace Through Interamerican Community Action
» Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES)
» Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
» Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
» Cooperative Home Care Associates
» Conservation Economy
» Co-Op America
» Corporate Accountability International
» The Corporation
» Domini Social Investments
» Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World)
» Ecological Footprint Quiz
» Eco-Me
» E. F. Schumacher Society
» Fair Labor Association (FLA)
» Fair Trade Resource Network
» Friends and Residents of Saint Thomas (FROST)
» GreenMoney Journal
» Greenpeace, Inc.
» IdealsWork.com
» Institute for Local Self-Reliance
» International Labor Organization
» Justice Clothing
» Los Angeles Alliance For A New Economy
» McKay Nursery
» Merrimack Valley Project
» Member-to-Member Elderplan
» National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)
» National Cooperative Business Association
» National Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice (NICWJ)
» Natural Step
» New Community Corporation
» No Sweat Apparel
» Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD)
» Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
» Redefining Progress
» Resaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY)
» ShoreBank Corporation
» Social Accountability International (SAI)
» Social Investment Forum
» Sustainable Connections
» Sustainable Ventures
» TransFair USA
» Unionwear
» United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
» Verite
» Walden Asset Management
» White Dog Cafe
» Workers Rights Consortium (WRC)
» Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
» Baltimoreans United for Leadership Development (BUILD)
» Billionaires for Bush
» California Voter Foundation
» Center for Responsive Politics
» Center for Voting and Democracy
» Clean Elections Institute, Inc.
» Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities
» Common Cause
» Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS)
» Community Initiatives
» Conversation Cafés
» Dakota Rural Action
» Democracy Matters Institute
» Democracy North Carolina
» East Brooklyn Congregations (EBC)
» Equality State Policy Center
» Florida Consumer Action Network
» The Gamaliel Foundation
» Georgia Rural-Urban Summit
» Governance International
» Greater Boston Interfaith Coalition
» Hartford Areas Rally Together (HART)
» Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)
» InterValley Project
» Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC)
» Lawrence Community Works
» League of Independent Voters/League of Pissed-Off Voters
» League of Women Voters
» Maine Citizens for Clean Elections
» Meetup, Inc.
» Michigan Campaign Finance Network
» Midwest Democracy Center
» National Civic League
» National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
» National League of Cities
» National Peopleââ¬â¢s Action (NPA)
» National Training and Information Center (NTIC)
» New Hampshire Citizens Alliance
» Pacific Institute for Community Organizations (PICO)
» Pennsylvania Environmental Network (PEN)
» Progressive Maryland
» Public Campaign
» Public Citizen
» RESULTS
» Right Question Project, Inc.
» Saint Paul Department of Planning and Economic Development
» Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods
» September Project
» Study Circles Resource Center
» Toolkit Citizen Participation
» Working Families Party
» YouthBuild USA
» Big Picture Schools
» Center for Collaborative Education
» Central Park East Secondary School
» Coalition of Essential Schools
» Educators for Social Responsibility
» Federal Hocking Local Schools
» Fenway High School
» Forum for Education and Democracy
» Holbrook School
» Hudson High School
» Institute for Student Achievement
» KIDS Consortium
» Lehman Alternative Community School
» Lighted Schools
» Morningside Middle School
» Public Achievement
» School Mediation Associates
» School Redesign Network
» Study Circles Resource Center
» Texas Interfaith Education Fund (IEF)
» Youth Action Program and Homes, Inc.
» YouthBuild USA
» Allied Communities of Tarrant (ACT)
» Citizens on Patrol Project (COPP)
» Changing Lives Through Literature
» Community Initiatives
» Community Justice Exchange
» Conversation Cafés
» Dispute Settlement Center
» Garden Project
» Insight Prison Project
» InstantRunoff.com
» Iowa Citizens For Community Improvement
» Justice Policy Institute
» Meetup, Inc.
» Men Against Destruction-Defending Against Drugs and Social Disorder (MAD DADS)
» Metro Alliance
» National Association for Community Mediation
» National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
» National Youth Court Center
» Portland Office of Neighborhood Involvement
» Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP)
» September Project
» Study Circles Resource Center
» Sentencing Project
» Time Dollar USA
» Time Dollar Youth Court
» Vermont Community and Restorative Justice System
» Washington State Institute for Community Oriented Policing
» AlterNet
» Alliance for Community Media
» Allied Media Projects
» Center for Digital Democracy
» Center for International Media Action
» Center for Media & Democracy (Publisher of PR Watch)
» Coalition of Immokalee Workers/Radio Conciencia
» Common Dreams News Center
» Democracy Now!
» Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
» Free Press
» Free Speech TV
» Future of Music Coalition
» Guerrilla News Network/GNN.tv
» Hometown Utilicom (public Internet utility)
» Independent Media Center
» In the Mix
» KRBS-lp 107.1 FM
» Listening Project
» Low Power Radio Association
» The Meatrix
» Media Access Project
» MediaRights
» Media Tenor
» Microcinema International
» MoveOn.org
» Mozilla Firefox
» Openflows Networks, Ltd.
» Pacifica Radio
» Prometheus Radio Project
» Reclaim the Media
» Rooftop Films
» Simple Machines Records
» Thin Air Radio
» Third World Majority
» Tompaine.com
» TruthOut
» Working Films
» Adbusters magazine
» Ode magazine
» Orion magazine
» Resurgence magazine
» The Sun magazine
» Utne magazine
» WorldWatch magazine
» Yes! magazine
» The Alliance for Democracy
» American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA)
» Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)
» Center for Working Capital
» Corporate Accountability International
» The Corporation
» Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World)
» Institute for Local Self-Reliance
» IdealsWork.com
» Institute for Local Self-Reliance
» National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)
» National Cooperative Business Association
» Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD)
» Social Accountability International (SAI)
» Social Investment Forum
» Trillium Asset Management
» United Nations Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
» American Community Garden Association
» American Corn Growers Association
» Ann Cooper's Lunch Lessons
» Center for Ecoliteracy
» Community Food Security Coalition
» Concerned Citizens of Newport
» EarthSave International
» The Edible Schoolyard, Martin Luther Kind, Jr. Middle School
» FIAN International / Right to Food Journal
» Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
» Food Project
» George Jones Farm, Ecological Design Innovation Center
» Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
» Growing Power
» Heifer International
» Howard Lyman, Voice for a Viable Future
» Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, The Jane and Steve Fund
» Just Harvest
» Just Food
» Just Food Northfield Community Co-Op
» Local Harvest
» National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
» National Cooperative Grocers Association
» National Farm to School Program
» National Gardening Association
» Niman Ranch
» Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA)
» Organic Consumers Association
» Organic Valley
» South Central Farm
» Vermont Valley Community Farm
» Yale Sustainable Food Project
About me:
Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé founded the Small Planet Institute in 2001 to help define, articulate, and further an historic transition: a worldwide shift from the dominant, failing notion of democracy as a set of fixed institutions toward democracy understood as a way of life, a culture in which the values of inclusion, fairness and mutual accountability infuse all dimensions of public life. On every continent, people are creating such “living democracies” as they discover their power to remake societal rules and norms to serve their widely shared values. At the Institute we further this historic transition through collaborative public education efforts with colleagues worldwide and through our own books, articles, speeches, and other media.
Birmingham Southern College
Speech to students and faculty
Birmingham, AL
September 26, Saturday
Frances
Closing Address
“Year of the Harvest” series
Visitor Center, Old Sturbridge Village
Sturbridge, MA
...for a full list of events click here! For information about booking Frances and/or Anna as a speaker for your own school or organization, send an email to info.at.smallplanet.org.
To listen and/or view one of our talks:
Ending Hunger, Feeding Hope,; University of Alberta's International Week, February 2009 (Frances)
Public Forum on the Global Crisis: Food Fuel and Finance, February, 2009, New York University. As well as Frances, speakers include Martin Khor, Director of the South Institute, Geneva and Jun Borras, Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, and Editor of the Journal of Peasant Studies. The forum opens with an introduction on the global crisis by the chair of the session, Barry K Gills.
Getting a Grip on Democracy,; Cambridge Forum, March 2008 (Frances)
Getting a Grip on Hunger,; Worcester State College, November 2007 (Frances)
Sample of Previous Events
Cornell University, Global Development Symposium, Ithaca
Natural Products Expo East, Boston
Bioneers, San Rafael, California
Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge
MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership, Cambridge
Green Festivals — Chicago, Seattle, Washington
Results Annual Conference, Washington
International Federation of Organic Movements, Modena, Italy
4th Albert Howard Memorial Lecture, New Delhi, India
Suffolk University, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Boston
Environmental Educators Association of Washington Annual Conference, Wenatchee, Washington
Single Male Searching - Believe in love? Want children? Want a life mate? Not religious? Care about the environment? Care about science? Want to share some journeys? Then look over my space!
Frankie, Congrats on being named one of Gourmet's Top 25 People who have changed food in America! YAY! they got it right! (I put it on my myspace blog, I was so excited! ;)
I've made this video to show you who I am and what I do. I call it an AMovie, an "About Me Movie". I hope you'll
like it.
It's only the 2nd video I've made with my lap-top so feel
free to comment me about it.
Dear, Small Planet Institute
I'm just passing by to drop you a note to thank you for graciously taking the time to listen to my songs.
I sincerely appreciate the gesture and I feel humble that you enjoyed my songs enough to add me to your community of friends.
After all, having people connected with my music is why I do this.
I hope you'll come by to say hello and let me know what's happening with you.
I will try to find the time in between my performances, guitarteaching and familylife to speak with you once in a while.
All my best, a merry christmas and a happy new year.
