Slow Food CNY

Frances Moore Lappe, of the Small Planet Institute, will be speaking on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 7:30 pm at Albright Auditorium, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY. Her talk is called “Food, finance, and climate: Seeing common roots, searching for solutions”

From the Hobart, William Smith website:
Frances Moore Lappe is a democracy advocate and world food and hunger expert who has authored or co-authored 16 books. She is the co-founder of three organizations, including Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy, and, more recently, the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappe.

In 1987 she received the Right Livelihood Award (a.k.a, the “Alternative Nobel”). Her first book, Diet for a Small Planet, has sold three million copies and is considered “the blueprint for eating with a small carbon footprint since long before the term was coined” [JM Hirsch, Associated Press].  Her most recent book is Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad, awarded the Nautilus Gold/”Best in Small Press” award.

In June 2008, Getting a Grip and Diet for a Small Planet were designated as must-reads for the next U.S. president (by Barbara Kingsolver and Michael Pollan, respectively) in The New York Times Sunday Review of Books. Other recent books include Hope’s Edge, written with Anna Lappe, about democratic social movements worldwide, as well as You Have the Power and Democracy’s Edge.

For more information about the event, please visit: http://fli.hws.edu/workshops.asp