Founding and Mission

Small Planet Institute is a nonprofit organization founded by Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. She is the co-founder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty and environmental crises, as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls...

 and Anna Lappé

Anna Lappé

Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author and public speaker, respected for her work on sustainability, food politics, globalization, and social change...

 in 2001. Its mission is "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." http://www.smallplanet.org/about_us/ This mission is carried out mainly through public outreach using books, articles, speeches, and other media.

Books

• Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage for the World We Really Want, by Frances Moore Lappé (Small Planet Media 2010)
• Diet for a Hot Planet, by Anna Lappé (New York: Bloomsbury, 2010)
• Liberation Ecology: Reframing Six Disempowering Ideas that Keep Us from Aligning with Nature, Even Our Own, byFrances Moore Lappé (Small Planet Media Limited Release November 2009)
• Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad, by Frances Moore Lappé (Small Planet Media 2007)
• Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, by Anna Lappé with Bryant Terry (Tarcher/Penguin 2006)
• Democracy’s Edge: Choosing to Save our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life, by Frances Moore Lappé (Jossey-Bass 2006)
• You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear, by Frances Moore Lappé with Jeff Perkins (Tarcher/Penguin 2003)
• Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé (Tarcher/Penguin 2002)
• World Hunger: Twelve Myths, by Frances Moore Lappé with Joseph Collins, Peter Rosset and Luis Esparza (Grove Press, 1986. Updated and revised, 1999)
• Diet for a Small Planet
  Diet for a Small Planet
  Diet for a Small Planet is a 1971 bestselling book by Frances Moore Lappé, the first major book to critique grain-fed meat production as wasteful and a contributor to global food scarcity...
  
  , by Frances Moore Lappé (Ballantine Books 1971, 1975, 1982, 1991)

Principals

• Frances Moore Lappé, founding principal
• Anna Lappé, founding principal
• Richard Rowe, publisher of Small Planet Media
• Anthony Lappé, media advisor and producer of web documentaries

Small Planet Fund

The Small Planet Fund was started in 2002 by Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. She is the co-founder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty and environmental crises, as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls...

 and Anna Lappé

Anna Lappé

Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author and public speaker, respected for her work on sustainability, food politics, globalization, and social change...

. The mission of the fund is to support grassroots democracy movements worldwide which address the causes of hunger and poverty. The Fund is a project of RSF (formerly the Rudolf Steiner Foundation) and is overseen by Anna Lappé.http://www.smallplanet.org/about_us/accomplishments.php#spf