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Frances Moore Lappe joins Thom to share how we can eat better and save democracy and the planet by improving our diets. Lappe is an Activist / Author or co-author of over 20 books including Diet for a Small Planet (50th anniversary edition). Also electric plane startup Heart Aerospace races to decarbonise short-haul flights. Plus Norway taxes cow-farts to combat climate change. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

China, Canada and Mexico hit back at Trump's tariff plan amid warnings of impact on the US economy - - How do we bring our jobs back home? Trump says he'll slap tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico on Day 1. I agree with jobs coming home - Dems should have done this. Our drugs, food, and good union jobs have been sent to unregulated cheap labor. There are loads of recalls that no one even checks. This broke unions and drove down paychecks. This should begin with a made in America buying from the federal government. Trump is not going to handle this well. We've had 30, 40 years of our good jobs being shipped overseas and it can't be undone overnight or we will have chaos. You now have other countries that make critical pharmaceuticals that could be withheld. Hardly anything is manufactured here anymore.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Doctor Eric Feigl-Ding joins Thom to come to grips with the science behind the headlines. Plus- Why are Republicans working to defund the CDC (again)?Also-- Thom reads from "Getting A Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World " by Frances Moore Lappe.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode Ray, faith-based network marketing coach, founder of RankMakers and the Higdon Group, shares and discusses quotes from Frances Moore Lappe, Eleanor Roosevelt & Henry Ford as well as verses from the books of Deuteronomy, Corinthians & Samuel on why you have to push forward even when you don't feel like it.     FaithOverFearLIVE.com     Ray Higdon, is a bestselling author of several books, renowned inspirational speaker, earner of multiple seven figures in a multi-million dollar home based business and founder of the Higdon Group, a Fortune 5000 company, where he's helped clients generate over 500,000 new customers through his proven coaching programs (https://rayhigdoncoaching.com).   Partner with Ray: ★ Take the 1K RankUp Challenge: https://rankmakers.com ★ Apply for Coaching: https://higdongroup.com/coaching ★ Invite to Speak: https://higdongroup.com/speaking ★ Order his Books: https://rankmakershop.com/collections/books-journals/book   Connect with Ray: ★ Podcast: https://higdongroup.com/podcast ★ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rayhigdonpage ★ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rayhigdon ★ Twitter: https://twitter.com/rayhigdon ★ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayhigdon   Thank you for watching and be sure to subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/@HigdonGroup We believe in you! - Ray Higdon   ======================== More About Ray: Ray's, Home Business Profits, has had over 10 million downloads with approximately 160k downloads every month (https://higdongroup.com/podcast). The Higdon Group hosts annual events with as many as 2,000 people live and nearly 7,000 registered online for their Rank Maker community (https://rankmakers.com). As a top keynote speaker, Ray has shared the stage with world renowned thought leaders, including Tony Robbins, Les Brown, Brendon Burchard, Robert Kiyosaki, Bob Proctor, Gary Vaynerchuk, Grant Cardone, Magic Johnson and many more (https://higdongroup.com/speaking). Ray resides in Naples, FL with his wife Jessica, a prominent realtor, and he has four children. As a follower of Jesus Christ, Ray incorporates faith based principles into all of his decisions, life challenges and business successes. They have raised over $1,000,000 to support families in need, the battle against human trafficking and advancing alternatives to traditional health care.

American democracy is under attack in 2024. Last week I talked with SAM DALEY-HARRIS about the life-tested lessons in his book RECLAIMING OUR DEMOCRACY: Every Citizen's Guide to Transformational Advocacy. I recommend the book and the episode. I follow this week with my 2017 conversation with FRANCES MOORE LAPPE and ADAM EICHEN. LAPPE, who published Diet For A Small Planet over 50 years ago and whose work since has consistently updated the best the 60's had to offer, and EICHEN, who graduated from college in 2015, met on a pro-democracy march. They co-authored DARING DEMOCRACY: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want - their report on pro-democracy movements near the end of Trump's first year in office.

•  Longtime activist targets lies that undermine democracy •  “I feel very worried.  I feel very worried.”    (Total Recorded Time is 23:34)    In 1971, Frances Moore Lappe wrote a book that transformed the way many relate to food called “Diet for a Small Planet.”   Now, more than half a century and more than a dozen books later, Ms. Lappe is the force behind the movement called “living democracy.”  It seeks to challenge everyday citizens to take active roles in their local and even national lives.   “I feel very worried.  I feel very worried,” she says. “Because of all the different forms of media, it is very hard to sort out truth and fiction.”   Frances Moore Lappe isn't your everyday activist.  She joins us for this edition of Bizgnus Interviews to explain why citizen involvement in government is more important than ever.   Please click here to watch the interview: https://youtu.be/ZrWKlW1yIJ8   Her most recent book is “Crisis of Trust: How Can Democracies Protect Against Dangerous Lies,” ( , January 2023). It takes on the American disinformation crisis and offers lessons from democracies leading the fight to combat harmful lies and promote truth.   For more information: https://www.smallplanet.org/frances-moore-lappe

Frances Moore Lappe is committed to helping us understand the hidden connections between the foods we choose to eat, the earth on which they're grown, and the fact that there are more than 800 million hungry people in the world today. In this fascinating episode of Humankind, Lappe tells of her world journey to visit […]

Frances Moore Lappe is committed to helping us understand the hidden connections between the foods we choose to eat, the earth on which they're grown, and the fact that there are more than 800 million hungry people in the world today. In this fascinating episode of Humankind, Lappe tells of her world journey to visit […]

From the archives, Marty's interview with Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet, for the 50th anniversary of her groundbreaking book.

Mark talks to Beyond Meat founder and president Ethan Brown, and the ultimate trailblazer Frances Moore Lappe.Subscribe to Food with Mark Bittman on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen, and please help us grow by leaving us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts.Follow Mark on Twitter at @bittman, and on Facebook and Instagram at @markbittman. Subscribe to Mark's newsletter The Bittman Project at www.bittmanproject.com.Questions or comments about the show? Email food@markbittman.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Peter Singer — one of the world's most influential philosophers —  is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Peter has written several influential books, including Animal Liberation, The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology, The Most Good You Can Do, Why Vegan? Eating Ethically and The Life You Can Save: How To Do Your Part To End World Poverty. He is one of the intellectual founders of the modern animal rights and effective altruism movements and has made important contributions to the development of bioethics. Twitter: @PeterSingerHost:Professor Dan Banik, University of Oslo, Twitter: @danbanik  @GlobalDevPodApple Google Spotify YouTubehttps://in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/

All the way back in 1971, with the publication of Frances Moore Lappe's Diet for Small Planet, the world began to take notice of the connection between what we eat, who we are, our environmental future, and the sustainability of our food supply. Since then, the external forces that impact all of these things have brought more pressures to bear. The state of our climate and its consequences, the quality of our food, and how long we live are all going in the wrong direction. Even more problematic is that each seems to be siloed. Dana Ellis Hunnes, in her new book, Recipe for Survival, takes a more modern and holistic approach in looking at ways to improve our health and at the same time improve the health of our planet. My conversation with Dana Ellis Hunnes:

In this episode, we'll begin by speaking with Twilight Greenaway, senior editor at Civil Eats, and then have a conversation with Frances Moore Lappe, author of the 50th anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet, and her daughter and contributor, Anna Lappé. Both conversations take different looks at what we eat, how we eat, and the climate crisis.   Twilight Greenaway is the senior editor at Civil Eats and its former managing editor. Her articles about food and farming have appeared in The New York Times, NPR.org, The Guardian, TakePart, Modern Farmer, Gastronomica, and Grist.   Frances Moore Lappé has authored 20 books, including Diet for a Small Planet and in 2017 she co-authored with Adam Eichen, Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want. Frances co-founded Small Planet Institute and is the recipient of 20 honorary degrees and the Right Livelihood Award, often called the “Alternative Nobel.”   Frances's daughter, Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author and a renowned advocate for sustainability and justice along the food chain. Anna is the co-author or author of three books on food, farming, and sustainability and the contributing author to thirteen more, including Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It. With her mother, she helped curate the recipe section of the 50th anniversary of Diet for a Small Planet. Read the show notes and more at the Edible Communities website.

Click here, to View as Webpage. To unsubscribe scroll to bottom. Scroll down for timely articles. Listen any time to Podcast ApplePodcasts, Podomatic.com, aworldthatjustmightwork.com FRANCES MOORE LAPPE 50 years ago DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET introduced millions to plant-based eating. Today it's a crucial way to fight climate change. Palm upraised To learn more: dietforasmallplanet.org and democracymovement.us 50 years ago, FRANCES MOORE LAPPE shared a booklet about global hunger with friends in Berkeley. That booklet became DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET, brought plant-based food to the mainstream, and sold over 3M copies. Today we know the food system is responsible for 37% of greenhouse gases - cattle for 14%; we understand the costly and deadly impacts of diet and obesity; and we're aware that Ag and food employ more lobbyists than fossil fuels. The book - now in a 50th Anniversary edition with a new introduction and new recipes - has never been more needed.

Thom and Frances Moore Lappe discuss how activists in the anti-war movement turned to vegetarianism as a sign of their commitment to non-violence. The book Diet for a Small Planet explains what we need to do to improve our diet, save the planet and have enough food for everyone.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Fifty years ago, FRANCES MOORE LAPPE shared a booklet about global hunger with friends in Berkeley. That booklet became DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET, brought plant-based food to the mainstream, and sold over 3M copies. Fifty years later, we know that the food system is responsible for 37% of greenhouse gases - cattle alone for 14%; we understand the costly and deadly health impacts of diet and obesity; and we're aware that Ag and food employ more lobbyists than the fossil fuel industry. The book - now in a 50th Anniversary edition with a new introduction and new recipes - has never been more needed. Learn more at dietforasmallplanet.org and democracymovement.us

In 1971, Frances Moore Lappe published "Diet for a Small Planet," a book that promotes a plant-centric approach to eating as being more beneficial for personal and global health. We speak with Moore Lappe as well as her daughter Anna Lappe, who helped update the book. And, in his 2019 book "Talking to Strangers," author Malcolm Gladwell explores the sometimes fatal miscues that occur when we make assumptions about people we don't know. We revisit our conversation with Gladwell.

Today on “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Dani interviews author Frances Moore Lappe, co-founder of Small Planet Institute, a nonprofit organization that aims to use communication tools to spread living democracy. They discuss how the food system has changed in the 50 years since Diet for a Small Planet was released and what it takes to build a living democracy. While you're listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

Dan Saladino asks if the year 1971 was a turning point for how the world eats? It was a year of contrasts: McDonalds increased the portion sizes of the beef burger it served with the launch of the Quarter Pounder, meanwhile one of the best selling books of 1971 was full of vegetarian recipes, 'Diet for a Small Planet' by Frances Moore Lappe, which argued hunger could be eliminated from the world if we stopped eating meat and embraced plant-based diets. In the UK the food industry was innovating like never before and creating new types of processed foods and supermarkets were expanding across the country. Some embraced these changes, whereas others reacted to them, a split that was reflected in the publication of two important books that year. Delia Smith's 'How to Cheat at Cooking' offered tips on how tinned convenience foods could be used to create quick and delicious dishes, whereas, Jane Grigson's Good Things, was a celebration of slower, seasonal and more traditional cooking. Senior staff writer at Bon Appetit magazine Alex Beggs argues 1971 was a turning point for food and explains how social changes and economic forces helped transform the way people ate in the United States (from the opening of the first branch of Starbucks to cups of instant noodles going on sale). Food historian Polly Russell explains how a similar process was also underway in the UK and how we can see the legacy of that transformation in our food today. Dan also speaks to Professor Tim Lang about the importance of the Concert for Bangladesh, organised by George Harrison to fight famine in south Asia. He also catches up with Frances Moore Lappe to ask what 'Diet for a Small Planet' can tell us about food and our world fifty years on. Produced and presented by Dan Saladino

Today on “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Dani interviews author Frances Moore Lappe, co-founder of Small Planet Institute, a nonprofit organization that aims to use communication tools to spread living democracy. They discuss how the food system has changed in the 50 years since Diet for a Small Planet was released and what it takes to build a living democracy. While you’re listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

Frances Moore Lappe reveals the fundamental truth of our interbeingness and fires up the spirit within us. We talk about living democracy, ecomind, and other intriguing concepts in order to live in a sustainable world. Credits: - Bonnie Perris- Script Editor - Krisjoe Fuertes- Tech ♪ Liam Bailey - When Will They Learn

Democracy Fights Back. From outrage to activism, and why it’s not too late to take a stand for the America we want. Plus, Bill Press with Pulitzer prize winning author David Mariniss.   Two authors take us inside the modern day movement for democracy in America and find hope.  Plus, author David Maraniss joins Bill Press to talk about his own family’s history with the Red Scare.   Adam Eichen In his newest book co-authored with Frances Moore Lappe, organizer and scholar Adam Eichen goes to the roots of the anti-democracy movement in America and answers the question, What do we do now?   Dana R. Fisher Dana R. Fisher is one of the leading scholars of protest movements. Her newest book  tells the story of how a grassroots movement has grown into a full-fledged resistance in the era of Donald Trump.   David Maraniss Bill Press interviews celebrated author David Maraniss whose newest book tells the story of his father who was targeted as a communist at the height of McCarthyism. If you'd like to hear the entire interview, visit BillPressPods.com.   Jim Hightower Should Democrats be the party of small change?

In this week’s Eat Real to Heal podcast, our guest, Catherine Holdway reveals her healing hero journey and why was is an inspiration to her family and her greater community. Catherine is a former nurse and worked for years in public health as a nurse educator. She then became a licensed couples and family therapist and family psychiatrist in Montréal before going on to start her own private therapy practice. Catherine was already a health renegade in her career, but her healing hero story goes even further. Catherine is now retired, is a mother, a grandmother and is still inspiring healthy living in her own life and in her community in so many ways after being diagnosed with high cholesterol, Type II Diabetes which runs in her family, and high blood pressure. She tracked now a copy of ‘Diet for a Small Planet’ by Frances Moore Lappé and this one book has since changed the way she thought about food. That's where her story really begins. Her children came home and announced they were vegetarian and vegan so Catherine let the turkey live that year and she prepared the first ever 100% vegan Thanksgiving meal. Already on the vegan-train, she committed to eating whole-food plant-based for 6 months to see if she could lower her triglycerides which were extremely high. Sure enough, within three months her triglycerides had dropped to perfect healthy levels. Catherine is 68 years old now leading this amazing vegan lifestyle and she has proven that you can learn how to develop new cooking techniques, new shopping techniques, new recipes and it's never too late to turn your health around. Do what Catherine did – try something new for 6 months and see what happens. What have you got to lose? Maybe a just a few pounds, a bunch of unnecessary medications and low energy. What have you got to gain? Your health and your life. Want to use food as medicine to reverse your diagnosed chronic degenerative disease? Find out more about our Eat Real to Heal 5-week Online Challenge here https://nicolettericher.com/eat-real-to-heal Discussed on the PODCAST Forks Over Knifes It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken Website Books 'How Not to Die' & 'How Not to Die Cookbook' by Michael Greger, M.D 'Diet for a Small Planet' by Frances Moore Lappe 'Oh She Glows' by Angela Lidden 'Engine 2 Cookbook' by Rip Esselstyn

Many people in the modern world have become distant from their food. They may not know where it's grown, who grows it, who produces it, or who harvests it, what impact its production has on the environment, how it is processed, how to prepare it, and more. A champion of shrinking this distance and of understanding how all these pieces fit together is an activist, and an advocate, and a journalist. A person whose career has been devoted to making it easier for people to eat healthy food, and good food, Mark Bittman. About Mark Bittman Mark Bittman was an opinions columnist for the New York Times, a food columnist for the paper's dining section, and the lead food writer for the New York Times magazine. His column, known as The Minimalist ran for more than 13 years. He also hosted a weekly Minimalist cooking video on the New York Times website. He is a member of the Faculty of the Columbia University' Mailman School of Public Health. He also appeared as a guest judge on the Food Network's Chopped. Mark is the author of 14 books, including the bestselling book "How to Cook Everything," which I happen to love, and "Vegan Before 6." Interview Summary You were a correspondent for the climate change documentary called Years of Living Dangerously. Why would a climate change documentary include a food journalist? Well, you know, it's interesting that you're asking that question because in a way it was a bone of contention between the producers and me. I thought there should have been much more food substance in Years of Living Dangerously. They wanted to do some and they also liked me. They liked my voice, they liked my TV presence and so on. So, I wound up reporting on methane production--but not from cows. From leaks and methane wells and on hurricane or Superstorm Sandy and its impact on the New Jersey coastline. So I really didn't get to talk about agriculture, but as, as you know I'm sure, agriculture is a major contributor to greenhouse gas production. And quite possibly the leading if not the second leading, it depends how you look at it, contributor to climate change. So I'm still waiting for the show that talks about climate change and agriculture because it is a big deal. So our listeners will have varying levels of knowledge of the impact of food production on the environment. If you to put together a show that you just said mentioned, what would you include in it? There are many problems with agriculture in the industrialized West. But, I think probably the primary one is our is industrial production of animals--it is the biggest single contributor to climate change in agriculture. And it also has a number of other egregious environmental effects. So from the lagoon, the waste lagoons that are the result from hog production to the air pollution that results from chicken houses and so on. I mean, we're talking about anonymous looking barns that may have hundreds of thousands of chickens in them, and thousands of hogs in them. Which are, you know, really, really big numbers of animals kept in crowded, torturous and pollution-producing situations. Is there an alternative to these kinds of things if the world wants as much meat as it does? Well, the second half of that question sort of takes issue with the first. The alternative is really going to be to eat less meat. And, you know, what's happening in the world today is that countries like India and China with huge populations, and increasing numbers of people with relative wealth--and the word relative is important here--but enough money to be able to buy meat. Those people want to eat like Americans have eaten for the last 50 to 70 years. But the real key to environmental sanity and a number of other things, but let's just say environmental-ecological sanity, is for us to eat the way the Chinese and the Indians have eaten traditionally. Which is to say a more plant-based diet. And I wouldn't say meat is forbidden. I wouldn't say that we have to stop eating meat. But from a public health perspective. And a personal health perspective, and environmental perspective, and for that matter from a moral perspective--we'd all be better off eating less than half the amount of meat we now. What I'm hearing from you is a little unusual to be hearing from a cookbook author. There are people who write  food cookbooks, or food columns, for example. People who work on environmental issues,  who are advocates--but not that many people do all these things. You do. Why do you believe it's important to put all these pieces together? I love that question by the way. I do think that cooking remains an important tool in helping people eat better. When you cook, it's almost impossible to eat as badly as you do when you don't. When you look at what you're putting in your body in a raw, unprocessed state, it's much easier to eat well than it is when you go through a drive-through window and just ask for whatever you're craving. And you and I both know we could spend a lot of time talking about the degradation, I guess is the word, of the food environment. The way that food has been increasingly presented to us in the last 50 years. Which just makes it easier and easier for people to eat badly. Cooking is one of the tools that helps people eat better. At the same time, we need policy changes. We need to be pressuring food companies to do things differently. We need regulations so that our food system doesn't increasingly produce food that's bad for us while having a negative impact on the environment. And that is not something that is under an individual's control. Those are societal changes. So while I started out as a cookbook author and I do strongly believe in cooking, I also think it's important to talk about the kind of changes we need to make as a group, as a society, in order to produce food better, eat better food, and steward the land and the earth in general better. What's happened with norms around cooking over the years and how many people are doing it compared to before? Well, it's very hard to gather numbers because if you go to the store and buy a microwave pizza, buy a chocolate cake, and buy a six pack of coke. And you bring that home and microwave the pizza and cut up the cake, that counts as cooking according to USDA numbers. So it's hard to know. It's hard to know who's cooking what and how many people are doing it. Anecdotally, it does seem like the numbers plummeted in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, and have climbed a little bit since then. That is Millennials are cooking more than the generations that preceded them. But for real numbers, it's hard to know when one of the indicators of how many people are cooking versus how many people aren't is chronic disease. And we believe, and  some studies that would back us up, we believe that the more you cook, the less susceptible you are to chronic disease such as diabetes and coronary artery disease, high blood pressure and so on. Conditions that are caused by the way we live. A lifestyle, which may mean everything from smoking to cooking to eating to exercise and so on. As chronic disease numbers increase, and they have, it's easy to believe that the numbers of people who cook or are going down. If the numbers are trending up for the Millennial generation, why do you think that is? Is it because they're more interested than generations that preceded them in the story of their food, where it came from, how it was produced and things? Well, I think there is that, but I also think in the last 20 years, let's say it's become increasingly evident that the food system does not serve the people that it should be helping. That isgreater:, the greater population. And that's caused many people, starting with Frances Moore Lappe in the seventies, but continuing with Eric Schlosser and the film Food, Inc. And so on. People have been exposed to information about how the food system is not serving them, and they're trying to figure out, at least some are trying to figure out, how to make it work better for greater numbers of people. If we're talking generalities, and it seems we are big picture stuff, I want to say that if you asked most people what a food system ought to look like, they might give an answer like: it should provide the greatest number of people with the best nutrition possible while doing the least damage that it possibly can to animals and the land and workers and so on. And that is not what we have. We have a food system that's designed strictly for the profit of the people who are running it. And that's a bad public health decision, and that's a bad environmental decision. And I think people are starting to see that and trying to turn that around. At least I hope so. That represents a big change because at one point if you'd ask people what a good food system would be, it would be two whoppers for $2. Well, if you know, if that's your definition of a good food system, then we're practically there! But when you look at chronic disease numbers and when you look at environmental damage and so on, then you're looking at something different than two Whoppers for $2. It does depend what you think is the greatest good for the greatest number. I suppose. Let's shift gears a bit and talk about your book Vegan Before 6. In this book, you discuss a flexitarian way of eating. Could you explain that concept? I mean really, flexitarianism is not that different from being omnivorous. That is to say, someone who defines themselves as a flexitarian will eat everything, or can choose to eat everything. But the trends in good diets today is to emphasize plant foods. And the trend is to emphasize unadulterated, minimally-processed plant foods. So it's fine to say eat more plant foods, but let's remember that both French fries and coke have their origins in plants. So we have to talk about what kind of plants we want to emphasize. And, as most people know, that means unprocessed fruits and vegetables, whole grains, olive oils, nuts, and seeds. So, it doesn't mean you can't eat meat. You can eat dairy, you can eat cheese. It doesn't even mean you can't eat junk food now and then. It means that the emphasis on our diets should be  unprocessed plant food. And that in a way goes back to one of the earlier questions you asked earlier, which is how we can we continue to eat and produce meat at the rate that we are? And the answer is we really cannot. It's a diet of kindness, isn't it? So it's a diet that is kind to the environment, kind to animals and kind to your own health. I thought you were making a pun, but yeah, it's a diet of kindness. But it's also a diet of respect and wisdom. I mean, if we want to be here a hundred years from now, we want to consider ourselves people who do the right thing. And we want to live long enough to do the right thing, then we need to take a close look not only at our diets but at the way we produce food because agriculture and diet are closely aligned. They could not be more closely aligned in that each affects the other. So how do we grow food and what food do we choose to grow? What food do we choose to eat and how do we produce it? These are all kind of the same question. And if we want those things to be sustainable, which is, if, you know, people sometimes mock the word sustainable, but it's a very real and useful word. If we want those things to be sustainable, if we want human and other life on earth to be sustainable, then we need sustainable agriculture and sustainable diets. And that's not what we have right now. As you project out into the future, what are some pieces of the food picture that alarm you most? You know, it's sad but true that you and I had this discussion 10 years ago, and I think the answers have not changed much. I have a pet three things that alarm me the most, but one of them is the routine use of antibiotics in the production of animals. This is something that could be easily changed and could have been changed 10 years ago. It certainly should have been changed during the Obama Administration. And it hasn't been. So if you're giving animals antibiotics routinely, prophylactically, preventively, then you're enabling the crowding of animals in production facilities, and you're making antibiotics less efficient, less effective when it comes to treating humans. That is really a scary thing. And as a result, we have bacteria that are antibiotic resistant now that we didn't use to have. And humans are dying as a result of this. So that's my number one. My number two, and I know you and I are closely aligned with this, my number two is that there's virtually no regulation on the selling of junk food to children. And that means that we're normalizing bad diets for kids who don't know any better. Which means every year that  happens means another year of adults who struggle with bad diet. So that would be my second. And the third is a little more technical, but basically, it's that we grow so much food using the technique that's generally called monoculture, which means we grow one crop at a time on very large swaths of land, which encourages mechanization, which in turn encourages the use of pesticides and other chemicals. And encourages the growing of crops like corn and soybeans, which mostly are used--to come full circle--to feed those industrially-produced animals and to produce the junk food that's making us sick. So those three things are my top, my top scary things and if you asked me if I think they're going to change it sorta depends which side of the bed I wake up on. I certainly hope they're going to change. What are some of the things you see as positive signs? They signs are smaller, but they're not insignificant. And they're more individual. I think one of the things that I see are farmers who are choosing to grow a variety of crops and a variety of crops that go to feed real people and steward the land. We see that all over the country and all over the world. We see farmers who are choosing to grow crops in a sustainable manner. I wouldn't say organic, although that's part of it,but the word that we choose to use more of these days is agroecologically. That is agriculture with an eye towards ecology. We see things like good food purchasing program, which helps cities determine who's growing and producing and selling things in a sustainable manner, and focus their purchasing on those producers. So it's not global the way you can say monoculture industrial agriculture is global, but these are things that we're seeing more and more of. And they are encouraging. You're publishing a newsletter that people can receive by email now. I receive it and  like it a lot. Can People get it? Yeah. The newsletter is new. It's just about two months old and anyone can can receive it by just going to http://markbittman.com. And I welcome you to do that. It's actually it's actually a good week to do that because we have some interesting stuff coming up, but yes, thank you for that, Kelly.   Produced by Deborah Hill at the Duke World Food Policy Center

Blake Mycoskie is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and the founder of TOMS Shoes. In this episode, Blake shares about his passion for helping to end gun violence in America. He shares about the importance of listening to your heart as a leader and boldly taking on issues that matter to you. Mike also asks him about the raw emotion he showed on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and what triggered that powerful moment. Frances Moore Lappe once said, "Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want." Blake's passion and choices are a celebration of the world he wants to live in. This inspiring episode is for anyone who wants launch their own dream and live out their passions each day. EPISODE LINKS End Gun Violence Campaign Toms Shoes Mike's Website Mike Foster Instagram ABOUT MIKE FOSTER Mike Foster is an author, speaker and executive counselor helping people turn setbacks into super powers. His work has been featured on FOX, ABC and in the New York Times. He lives in San Diego, CA with his wife. You can learn more at www.MikeFoster.tv

The election of Donald Trump came as a shock to many. But others saw it as the culmination of a decades-long effort to uproot and destabilize America’s democratic government. My guests come from two different generations but with a similar viewpoint and quest to empower Americans to leave despair behind and embrace the new democracy movement.    Frances Moore Lappe’s 18 books include the three million copy Diet for a Small Planet, described by the Smithsonian as “one of the most influential political tracts of the times.”  Adam Eichen is a writer, researcher, and political organizer working to build a democracy that empowers all voices in society. Adam is a Democracy Fellow at Small Planet Institute and on the board of directors of Democracy Matters. They are co-authors of Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning and Connection for the America We Want.

Host Cyrus Webb welcomes authors Frances Moore Lappe and Adam Eichen to #ConversationsLIVE to discuss their book #DaringDemocracy.

FRANCES MOORE LAPPE, (Diet For A Small Planet; Eco-Mind) whose work for decades has consistently updated the best the 60’s had to offer and ADAM EICHEN, who graduated from college in 2015, met on a pro-democracy march and have co-authored a book that brings their generations together - Daring Democracy—Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want.

"Our market system has been ripped out of any democratic boundaries," says Frances Moore Lappe. She says the top three wealthiest Americans now control more wealth than the bottom half of Americans combined. Frances believes this is because we have accepted materialism, selfishness and competition as the defining characteristics of being human, and ignored our capacity for empathy and cooperation. She cites a study showing that "when humans cooperate, our brains react as if we're eating chocolate -- it's that pleasurable," as evidence to the contrary. Today, we're pleased to share this episode with award-winning author and activist Frances Moore Lappe, whose latest book addresses the importance of reclaiming democracy and embracing cooperation.

What is right about democracy? In Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want (Beacon Press, 2017), Frances Moore Lappe and Adam Eichen seek out an answer. Lappe, author of the multimillion-selling Diet for a Small Planet and seventeen other books, is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, the “Alternative Nobel.” Eichen is a Democracy Fellow at the Small Planet Institute. Drawing on several previous New Books in Political Science podcast alums, including Lee Drutman and Zachary Roth, as well as numerous other political science scholars, Lappe and Eichen offer a series of critiques of our current state of democratic affairs. But they do not dwell long in the past, they instead focus on noble solutions. They back a Democracy Movement and call upon citizens to daringly take up the cause of democracy through becoming a citizen lobbyist, creating new public spaces for community talks, and celebrating democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is right about democracy? In Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want (Beacon Press, 2017), Frances Moore Lappe and Adam Eichen seek out an answer. Lappe, author of the multimillion-selling Diet for a Small Planet and seventeen other books, is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, the “Alternative Nobel.” Eichen is a Democracy Fellow at the Small Planet Institute. Drawing on several previous New Books in Political Science podcast alums, including Lee Drutman and Zachary Roth, as well as numerous other political science scholars, Lappe and Eichen offer a series of critiques of our current state of democratic affairs. But they do not dwell long in the past, they instead focus on noble solutions. They back a Democracy Movement and call upon citizens to daringly take up the cause of democracy through becoming a citizen lobbyist, creating new public spaces for community talks, and celebrating democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is right about democracy? In Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want (Beacon Press, 2017), Frances Moore Lappe and Adam Eichen seek out an answer. Lappe, author of the multimillion-selling Diet for a Small Planet and seventeen other books, is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, the “Alternative Nobel.” Eichen is a Democracy Fellow at the Small Planet Institute. Drawing on several previous New Books in Political Science podcast alums, including Lee Drutman and Zachary Roth, as well as numerous other political science scholars, Lappe and Eichen offer a series of critiques of our current state of democratic affairs. But they do not dwell long in the past, they instead focus on noble solutions. They back a Democracy Movement and call upon citizens to daringly take up the cause of democracy through becoming a citizen lobbyist, creating new public spaces for community talks, and celebrating democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is right about democracy? In Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want (Beacon Press, 2017), Frances Moore Lappe and Adam Eichen seek out an answer. Lappe, author of the multimillion-selling Diet for a Small Planet and seventeen other books, is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, the “Alternative Nobel.” Eichen is a Democracy Fellow at the Small Planet Institute. Drawing on several previous New Books in Political Science podcast alums, including Lee Drutman and Zachary Roth, as well as numerous other political science scholars, Lappe and Eichen offer a series of critiques of our current state of democratic affairs. But they do not dwell long in the past, they instead focus on noble solutions. They back a Democracy Movement and call upon citizens to daringly take up the cause of democracy through becoming a citizen lobbyist, creating new public spaces for community talks, and celebrating democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is right about democracy? In Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want (Beacon Press, 2017), Frances Moore Lappe and Adam Eichen seek out an answer. Lappe, author of the multimillion-selling Diet for a Small Planet and seventeen other books, is a recipient of the... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Musical intro by Normadic Massive followed by Francis on her book "Getting a Grip" Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want. This fresh, original work affirms readers basic sanity their intuition that it is possible to stop grasping at straws and to grasp instead the real roots of todays crises. Drawing on the latest findings in psychology and anthropology, it provides a new framework for thinking about fear, power, democracy and hope itself.

Looking for more from Frances Moore Lappe? Listen to part 2 of her Rootstock Radio interview as she discusses her new book, "World Hunger: 12 Myths."

Frances Moore Lappe has been a thought leader in the good food movement since the 1970s. Today, she discusses her new book, "World Hunger: 12 Myths" and examines the world food situation by defining what hunger is and how much food we currently produce. She discusses nutritional stunting and its long term impact, the mythology and language around the idea that the U.S. can and must feed the world, and the false promise of new technologies such as GMOs.

Katy Keiffer is joined by the legendary activist and writer Frances Moore Lappé on an inspiring episode of What Doesn’t Kill You. ** ** Frances More Lappé is the author or co-author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. Frances was named by Gourmet Magazine as one of 25 people (including Thomas Jefferson, Upton Sinclair, and Julia Child), whose work has changed the way America eats. Her most recent work is World Hunger:10 Myths which she and co-author Joseph Collins co-wrote (October 2015, Grove/Atlantic). She is the cofounder of three organizations, including Oakland based think tank Food First and, more recently, the Small Planet Institute which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé. Frances and her daughter have also cofounded the Small Planet Fund, which channels resources to democratic social movements worldwide. – See more at: http://smallplanet.org/about/frances/bio#sthash.VKZsX8pC.dpuf “Our whole book is about rethinking power down to its latin root meaning – which is ‘our capacity to act’.” [07:00] “If we don’t set the rules that are fair and democratic, then its set by highest return on existing wealth.” [16:00] “We have to stop complaining and join together in a movement like the movement that I was fortunate enough to experience in the 1960’s and 70’s. That movement is rising now and it’s a bipartisan movement.” [19:00] –Frances Moore Lappe on What Doesn’t Kill You  

Katy Keiffer is joined by the legendary activist and writer Frances Moore Lappé on an inspiring episode of What Doesn’t Kill You. ** ** Frances More Lappé is the author or co-author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. Frances was named by Gourmet Magazine as one of 25 people (including Thomas Jefferson, Upton Sinclair, and Julia Child), whose work has changed the way America eats. Her most recent work is World Hunger:10 Myths which she and co-author Joseph Collins co-wrote (October 2015, Grove/Atlantic). She is the cofounder of three organizations, including Oakland based think tank Food First and, more recently, the Small Planet Institute which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé. Frances and her daughter have also cofounded the Small Planet Fund, which channels resources to democratic social movements worldwide. – See more at: http://smallplanet.org/about/frances/bio#sthash.VKZsX8pC.dpuf “Our whole book is about rethinking power down to its latin root meaning – which is ‘our capacity to act’.” [07:00] “If we don’t set the rules that are fair and democratic, then its set by highest return on existing wealth.” [16:00] “We have to stop complaining and join together in a movement like the movement that I was fortunate enough to experience in the 1960’s and 70’s. That movement is rising now and it’s a bipartisan movement.” [19:00] –Frances Moore Lappe on What Doesn’t Kill You  

Frances Moore Lappe directs the Center for Living Democracy in Brattleboro, Vermont, with her husband Paul Martin Du Bois. They are also co-authors of the book The Quickening of America: Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives. In 1971, Ms. Lappe awakened an entire generation to the human-made causes of hunger in her book Diet for a Small Planet, a bestseller that has sold more than three million copies. In 1975, she co-founded the Institute for Food and Development Policy, described by The New York Times as one of the nation's "most respected food think tanks." She has received numerous awards for her work, including ten honorary doctoral degrees. Her eleven books have been translated into 22 languages and used in a broad array of courses in hundreds of U.S. colleges and universities.

Originally aired 12-30-2012 Where do you think the most important changes need to take place to turn things around in terms of big issues like the economy, the environment, and social justice? Some say climate change is the critical global issue so it must be clean energy. Others say nothing will make as much difference for the world's people as educating and empowering girls and women. Closer to home, a case can be made that public financing of political campaigns would have the most impact on all issues by making it possible for the power of the United States to become a greater force for good. All good answers, but this week's guest gives another answer - and its one that I share. Frances Moore Lappe, who has herself been a force for good at least since the publication of the phenomenal best-seller Diet for a Small Planet in 1971, says that the greatest impact would follow from changing our minds. In her 18th book, ECOMIND: CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK, TO CREATE THE WORLD WE WANT, Lappé argues that much of what is wrong with the world, from eroding soil to eroding democracies, results from ways of thinking that are out of sync with human nature and nature's rhythms. Drawing on the latest research in climate studies, anthropology, and neuroscience, she weaves her analysis together with stories of real people the world over, who, having shifted some basic thought patterns, now shift the balance of power in our world. Chapter-by-chapter, Lappé takes us from "thought trap" to "thought leap," and with each shift, challenges become opportunities.

World renowned author, Frances Moore Lappé about her thought provoking book, EcoMindChanging the Way We Think, to Create The World We Want.

guest Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet, and most recently, 'Eco-Mind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want.'Small Planet Institute

Episode Description: “For human evolution to continue, the conversation must deepen.” – Margaret MeadThe 6th Annual AREDAY – American Renewable Energy Day – produced by long-time environmental activist and filmmaker Chip Comins -- is a uniquely innovative and interactive annual gathering of co-creative change in this time of Yes We Can, and Yes We Must. It will take place Aug. 20-22, 2009 in the beauty of summertime in the Rocky Mountains in Aspen, Colorado. This year’s focus is “The Problem IS the Solution: Wall Street Meets Green Street – Creating the New Energy Economy”, bringing together a truly amazing array of people.This gathering will present all of us in attendance with an extraordinary opportunity not just to share information on visionary perspectives and practical tools for change, but to directly experience and co-create one of most important global transformations of our times. Participants will include a number of the people I have dialogued with on this site, such as Lester Brown, Bracken Hendricks, Van Jones, Bob Gough of Intertribal COUP, and many more. See Living Dialogues Episodes 68 and 70.Details, list of other key participants you will appreciate, and registration information available at www.areday.net. At last year’s AREDAY, Ted Turner was asked what he told the Board after he resigned from Time Warner in the wake of the AOL fiasco. He replied: “I just told them to stop doing the dumb things, and start doing the smart things.”To get a sense of how profound this simple message is if our public and private powers would only apply this advice, why they don’t, and why it really is true that the ball is in our court as citizens to show the way, that only “if the people will lead, the leaders will follow”, consider the following statements from one of this year’s AREDAY keynote speakers, Amory Lovins (then a 29 year old physicist), made thirty-three years ago, in his seminal article in Foreign Affairs magazine entitled “Energy Strategy – The Road Not Taken?”:At a time before Al Gore was even in Congress, Lovins noted: “The commitment (of U.S. policy) to a long-term coal economy many times the scale of today’s makes the doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration early in the next century virtually unavoidable, with the prospect then or soon thereafter of substantial and perhaps irreversible changes in global climate.” He dubbed this “the hard path.”The alternative, which Lovins called “the soft path,” favored “benign” sources of renewable power like wind and the sun, along with a heightened commitment to meeting energy demands through conservation and efficiency. Such a heterodox blend of clean technologies, Lovins argued, would bring a host of salutary effects: a healthier environment, an end to our dependence on Middle East oil, a diminished likelihood of future wars over energy, and the foundation of a vibrant new economy.”[The preceding two paragraphs are from the summary by Joshua Green in his article “Better Luck This Time”, reviewing the history of U.S. policy persisting in “doing the dumb things” all this time, in the July-August issue of The Atlantic magazine.]In my view, the U.S. is weighted down with the collective albatross in this Second Gilded Age of greed by highly centralized corporate systems beyond the control of our public government, including the U.S. financial system, fossil fuel energy and utility system, and health care system, among others – disconnected from any meaningful innovation and the public good. We will be exploring these aspects – and how they relate to the evolutionary imperative of consciousness transformation -- in future dialogues, including the upcoming next dialogues with Jeffrey Hopkins, the translator the Dalai Lama’s new book “Becoming Enlightened” (No. 100), Gillian Tett of the Financial Times of London on “Fool’s Gold” the creation by ambitious, self-centered Wall Street “high fliers” of the global economic catastrophe (Nos. 101 and 102), and David Korten on an “Agenda for a New Economy” (Nos. 103 and 104), followed by Judith Orloff on “Emotional Freedom”, and more to come.In the meantime, we invite you and look forward to seeing you at AREDAY on Aug. 20-22, 2009 in the natural beauty of Aspen, Colorado. As a listener to Living Dialogues, you can still receive an early bird discount by emailing Chip Comins directly at ccomins@rof.net. And if you cannot physically put yourself in Aspen Colorado for AREDAY, you’re very much invited to continue participating through your deep listening to not only this dialogue (and those related Living Dialogues listed above and below), but to our continuing Living Dialogues after that. And also to honor the fact that really it is true -- and we’re experiencing it with great gratitude for our listenership and their Website Contact emails from around the world -- that as the world becomes smaller, “yes, we can” and do experience in greater depth and greater celebration our own common humanity and our personal ability to shape our collective destiny in very real ways. “We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth…. and we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself....For the world has changed, and we must change with it…why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration…" -- Barack Obama Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009 As we say on Living Dialogues: “Dialogue is the Language of Evolutionary Transformation”™.Contact me if you like at www.livingdialogues.com. Visit my blog at Duncan.personallifemedia.com. ”. (For more, including information on the Engaged Elder Wisdom Dialogue Series on my website www.livihngdialogues.com, click on Episode Detail to the left above and go to Transcript section.) Among other heartful visionary conversations you will find of particular interest on these themes are my Dialogues on this site with Lester Brown, David Boren, Jav Inslee, Bracken Hendricks, Bob Gough, Van Jones, Ted Sorensen, Frances Moore Lappe, Angeles Arrien, David Mendell, Michael Dowd, and Barbara Marx Hubbard among others [click on their name(s) in green on right hand column of the Living Dialogues Home Page on this site]. After you listen to this Dialogue, I invite you to both explore and make possible further interesting material on Living Dialogues by taking less than 5 minutes to click on and fill out the Listener Survey. My thanks and appreciation for your participation.

Episode Description: “For human evolution to continue, the conversation must deepen.” – Margaret Mead This is the seventh and last in a seven-part series of “Pilgrimage Dialogues” forming part of and leading up to a Conference Gathering in Fort Collins, Colorado on May 29-30, 2009, entitled “2012 NOW – Empowering the Transformation”, for which I am serving as the Master of Ceremonies and opening presenter. Past Living Dialogues in this series have included dialogues with myself and Robert Sitler, John Major Jenkins, Stanislav Grof, Richard Tarnas (parts 1 and 2), and with Sobonfu Some’. Details and registration information available at www.unveiling2012.org. Duncan Campbell: 2012 Now: Empowering The Transformation, a uniquely innovative, interactive and affordable gathering in this time of global uncertainty, will take place Friday night and all day Saturday May 29 and 30 at the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in Fort Collins, Colorado. Beyond just information, to practical tools for change and direct experience of participating in the ongoing transformation of our times. Now is the time and the opportunity to synchronize consciousness with the evolutionary pulse of the cosmos. Join participants bringing stories from around the planet as we explore, co-create, and experience together the transformative dynamics necessary for a successful transit from now through the year 2012 and beyond. More information available on the Conference website, www.unveiling2012.org. See you there.The meaning of the Greek word “Apocalypse” is “lifting the veil” or “revelation”. These seven “pilgrimage dialogues” in advance of the Gathering – contemporary 21st century versions of the medieval Canterbury Tales – are examples of such revelatory “shared stories” on this Road of 2012 NOW.Here is a summary dialogue excerpt describing the Conference between myself and Sobonfu Some’, who will conduct the concluding ritual of celebration:Sobonfu Some’: Well I really believe that initiation is a necessity, you know, much like, you know, 2012 is saying “here is a big initiation”. It, initiation, is a necessity because we have to initiate in order to be able to move forward, to be able to tap into our essence, into our gift and so on. And, you know, in my African tradition the first initiation that we all go through is that of being born, because we are coming from being full of spirit to taking on this human tool that we call the body. And, you know, also, we’ll go through many, many initiations. And I think what we’re talking about in the Conference is that we’re going to get to the place where we are basically going to celebrate being able to give birth to our self and to whatever new vision is going to come out of this Conference Gathering -- so that we can together welcome each other and celebrate together. And I think that is the icing on the cake, you know, that is awaiting us.Duncan Campbell: I think absolutely that’s the case, and myself as Master of Ceremonies and yourself as the person who will be leading us in the concluding celebratory ritual are both involved in helping the entire gathering to activate, all of us together, a kind of transformational space -- including not only the presenters who will be articulating on the stage, but all of the participants with their deep listening who are evoking the insights that are articulated coming out of the group energy field. And this opportunity for expression will also be something we can all look forward to at the extended lunch time on Saturday, when there’s going to be a large and deliberate space for people in very small groups to share stories, deep stories, with each other and evoke and integrate their experience. This is very essential to a true initiation -- that is not just a one way transmission of information, but is actually a transformative initiation -- where together we can evoke an experience that is both intimate and personal in our sense of shift, as well as a kind of collective amplification that allows all of us to celebrate, as Barack Obama suggested in his Inaugural Address, “our common humanity”. And that experience has a great carry over effect into our everyday lives and relationships.Sobonfu Some’: Now how amazing is that, because, you know, a lot of people go into conferences and never really get to put in their voice; and, you know, in my Dagara people’s African tradition, when you go anywhere we are always trying to get our voice in, you know, to express yourself with and to others, because it’s like we are all making this huge cauldron and the stories that we bring, everything we share of our self, is part of what is going to make whatever we’re cooking really delicious. And for people to be able to have this opportunity as a gift, not only to themselves but a gift to the community, I really believe is amazing.Duncan Campbell: That’s beautifully put. I love the image that you give here of together we’re collectively creating a crucible or a great cauldron, not only a crucible for the water of life, but a great cauldron in which to cook and use the fire of life to transform our experience, because these are transformative elements, all of the elements are: Earth is nurturing, Wind is empowering, a Fire literally is transforming, and Water is liquid and fluid and moves between the solid state of ice to the evaporated state of the clouds. And so every one of the elements will be involved here. We will be having time outdoors; we will be celebrating the natural world in a beautiful natural environment in Fort Collins, Colorado. And I think that these “pilgrimage dialogues” are pointing to that transformation as they are evolving here. In my first dialogue, with Robert Sitler, he emphasized the joy and the wisdom that is accessible in everyday life that he himself has experienced in the Mayan culture and which he shares so beautifully. Next has been John Major Jenkins, whose great research into the galactic alignment and embedding it and situating it in connection to the primordial tradition, sometimes called the perennial philosophy, has shown how we can bring all of this that 2012 is pointing to into the Now; that this “2012 phenomenon” is not an event that we’re waiting for, that we’re going to have to be acted upon at some time in the future, but it is an atmosphere of opportunity that is present right here, right now…And that energy field is present right now in helping germinate and evoke from you and I what we’re saying and inviting people to; so that in a sense you and I are acting here as inviters and embodiments of the kind of dialogue and transformation that we can anticipate will be happening among us all and amplified at that particular moment on May 29 and May 30 of the Gathering. But that’s only a moment in a continuum of many moments before and after, that we’re all already uncovering and witnessing being unveiled in people all over the world.Sobonfu Some’: Yes, and, you know, as you speak and you share that it makes me think about today being this energy that renews itself time and again, which gets stronger every time, as the energy is being shared every time. So as people today listen to this dialogue, and share it with other people, it is renewed and it gets stronger and so on. That’s the image that came to me.Duncan Campbell: Well, I have to say, Sobonfu, it’s been just a wonderful opportunity here for myself and our other deep listeners, and yourself for that matter, for us to have this chance and opportunity to engage in this dialogue together, and I have always so appreciated the great joy and cheerfulness that you embody and bring to any time that I’ve ever had the pleasure and privilege to encounter you. And so I’m very much looking forward to this conference, even as I’m deeply appreciating the present moment here, because the gift I think of this very dialogue is not only to inspire that more such moments can happen between us, but in one’s own life everyday, today for instance, and the moments that follow.Sobonfu Some’: Yes, and I’m very grateful for you, for the gift of yourself to the world really and for having such a strong and powerful vision that you can not only share with the world, but that you can get other people be a part of the dance of that vision as well. And I think that is, that is a gift that not everybody has, and I thank you for holding that for all of us.Duncan Campbell: Well thank you very much Sobonfu, and I want to thank our co-producers Larraine Tennison and John Major Jenkins and everyone involved with this project, all the presenters that are part of this pilgrimage series that is now leading us, as it were, like milestones toward the Conference Gathering on May 29 and 30. If people are wanting further information, they can go to www.unveiling2012.org. And we really extend an extraordinarily warm and intimate invitation for your continued participation. If you cannot physically put yourself in that Fort Collins environment, you’re very much invited to participate through your deep listening to not only these dialogues, but to the continuation of Living Dialogues after that, and also to honor the fact that really it is true -- and we’re experiencing it with great gratitude for our listenership and their Website Contact emails from around the world -- that as the world becomes smaller, “yes, we can” and do experience in greater depth and greater joy our own common humanity. We invite you and look forward to seeing you at the conference on May 29 and 30, 2009 in the natural beauty of Fort Collins, Colorado, entitled “2012 NOW - Empowering the Transformation”. For further information and registration you can go to www.unveiling2012.org.“We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth…. and we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself....For the world has changed, and we must change with it…why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration…" -- Barack Obama Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009 And as we say on Living Dialogues: “Dialogue is the Language of Evolutionary Transformation”™.Contact me if you like at www.livingdialogues.com. Visit my blog at Duncan.personallifemedia.com. ”. (For more, including information on the Engaged Elder Wisdom Dialogue Series on my website www.livingdialogues.com, click on Episode Detail to the left above and go to Transcript section.) Among other heartful visionary conversations you will find of particular interest on these themes are my Dialogues on this site with Robert Sitler, John Major Jenkins, Sobonfu Some, Stanislav Grof, Richard Tarnas, John O’Donohue, Michael Meade, Eckhart Tolle, Ted Sorensen, Frances Moore Lappe, Angeles Arrien, Matthew Fox, David Mendell, Deborah Tannen, Gangaji, Michael Dowd, Duane Elgin, and Joseph Ellis, among others [click on their name(s) in green on right hand column of the Living Dialogues Home Page on this site]. After you listen to this Dialogue, I invite you to both explore and make possible further interesting material on Living Dialogues by taking less than 5 minutes to click on and fill out the Listener Survey. My thanks and appreciation for your participation.

Episode Description:“For human evolution to continue, the conversation must deepen.” – Margaret Mead This is the sixth in a seven-part series of “Pilgrimage Dialogues” forming part of and leading up to a Conference Gathering in Fort Collins, Colorado on May 29-30, 2009, entitled “2012 NOW – Empowering the Transformation”, for which I am serving as the Master of Ceremonies and opening presenter. Past Living Dialogues in this series have included dialogues with myself and Robert Sitler, John Major Jenkins, Stanislav Grof, Richard Tarnas, and with Sobonfu Some’. The final Living Dialogue in the series will be with Christine Page. Details and registration information available at www.unveiling2012.org. Duncan Campbell: 2012 Now: Empowering The Transformation, a uniquely innovative, interactive and affordable gathering in this time of global uncertainty, will take place Friday night and all day Saturday May 29 and 30 at the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in Fort Collins, Colorado. Beyond just information, to practical tools for change and direct experience of participating in the ongoing transformation of our times. Now is the time and the opportunity to synchronize consciousness with the evolutionary pulse of the cosmos. Join participants bringing stories from around the planet as we explore, co-create, and experience together the tranformative dynamics necessary for a successful transit from now through the year 2012 and beyond. More information available on the Conference website, www.unveiling2012.org. See you there.The meaning of the Greek word “Apocalypse” is “lifting the veil” or “revelation”. These seven “pilgrimage dialogues” in advance of the Gathering – contemporary 21st century versions of the medieval Canterbury Tales – are examples of such revelatory “shared stories” on this Road of 2012 NOW.Here is a summary dialogue excerpt describing the Conference between myself and Sobonfu Some’, who will conduct the concluding ritual of celebration:Sobonfu Some’: Well I really believe that initiation is a necessity, you know, much like, you know, 2012 is saying “here is a big initiation”. It, initiation, is a necessity because we have to initiate in order to be able to move forward, to be able to tap into our essence, into our gift and so on. And, you know, in my African tradition the first initiation that we all go through is that of being born, because we are coming from being full of spirit to taking on this human tool that we call the body. And, you know, also, we’ll go through many, many initiations. And I think what we’re talking about in the Conference is that we’re going to get to the place where we are basically going to celebrate being able to give birth to our self and to whatever new vision is going to come out of this Conference Gathering -- so that we can together welcome each other and celebrate together. And I think that is the icing on the cake, you know, that is awaiting us.Duncan Campbell: I think absolutely that’s the case, and myself as Master of Ceremonies and yourself as the person who will be leading us in the concluding celebratory ritual are both involved in helping the entire gathering to activate, all of us together, a kind of transformational space -- including not only the presenters who will be articulating on the stage, but all of the participants with their deep listening who are evoking the insights that are articulated coming out of the group energy field. And this opportunity for expression will also be something we can all look forward to at the extended lunch time on Saturday, when there’s going to be a large and deliberate space for people in very small groups to share stories, deep stories, with each other and evoke and integrate their experience. This is very essential to a true initiation -- that is not just a one way transmission of information, but is actually a transformative initiation -- where together we can evoke an experience that is both intimate and personal in our sense of shift, as well as a kind of collective amplification that allows all of us to celebrate, as Barack Obama suggested in his Inaugural Address, “our common humanity”. And that experience has a great carry over effect into our everyday lives and relationships.Sobonfu Some’: Now how amazing is that, because, you know, a lot of people go into conferences and never really get to put in their voice; and, you know, in my Dagara people’s African tradition, when you go anywhere we are always trying to get our voice in, you know, to express yourself with and to others, because it’s like we are all making this huge cauldron and the stories that we bring, everything we share of our self, is part of what is going to make whatever we’re cooking really delicious. And for people to be able to have this opportunity as a gift, not only to themselves but a gift to the community, I really believe is amazing.Duncan Campbell: That’s beautifully put. I love the image that you give here of together we’re collectively creating a crucible or a great cauldron, not only a crucible for the water of life, but a great cauldron in which to cook and use the fire of life to transform our experience, because these are transformative elements, all of the elements are: Eaarth is nurturing, Wind is empowering, a Fire literally is transforming, and Water is liquid and fluid and moves between the solid state of ice to the evaporated state of the clouds. And so every one of the elements will be involved here. We will be having time outdoors; we will be celebrating the natural world in a beautiful natural environment in Fort Collins, Colorado. And I think that these “pilgrimage dialogues” are pointing to that transformation as they are evolving here. In my first dialogue, with Robert Sitler, he emphasized the joy and the wisdom that is accessible in everyday life that he himself has experienced in the Mayan culture and which he shares so beautifully. Next has been John Major Jenkins, whose great research into the galactic alignment and embedding it and situating it in connection to the primordial tradition, sometimes called the perennial philosophy, has shown how we can bring all of this that 2012 is pointing to into the Now; that this “2012 phenomenon” is not an event that we’re waiting for, that we’re going to have to be acted upon at some time in the future, but it is an atmosphere of opportunity that is present right here, right now…And that energy field is present right now in helping germinate and evoke from you and I what we’re saying and inviting people to; so that in a sense you and I are acting here as inviters and embodiments of the kind of dialogue and transformation that we can anticipate will be happening among us all and amplified at that particular moment on May 29 and May 30 of the Gathering. But that’s only a moment in a continuum of many moments before and after, that we’re all already uncovering and witnessing being unveiled in people all over the world.Sobonfu Some’: Yes, and, you know, as you speak and you share that it makes me think about today being this energy that renews itself time and again, which gets stronger every time, as the energy is being shared every time. So as people today listen to this dialogue, and share it with other people, it is renewed and it gets stronger and so on. That’s the image that came to me.Duncan Campbell: Well, I have to say, Sobonfu, it’s been just a wonderful opportunity here for myself and our other deep listeners, and yourself for that matter, for us to have this chance and opportunity to engage in this dialogue together, and I have always so appreciated the great joy and cheerfulness that you embody and bring to any time that I’ve ever had the pleasure and privilege to encounter you. And so I’m very much looking forward to this conference, even as I’m deeply appreciating the present moment here, because the gift I think of this very dialogue is not only to inspire that more such moments can happen between us, but in one’s own life everyday, today for instance, and the moments that follow.Sobonfu Some’: Yes, and I’m very grateful for you, for the gift of yourself to the world really and for having such a strong and powerful vision that you can not only share with the world, but that you can get other people be a part of the dance of that vision as well. And I think that is, that is a gift that not everybody has, and I thank you for holding that for all of us.Duncan Campbell: Well thank you very much Sobonfu, and I want to thank our co-producers Larraine Tennison and John Major Jenkins and everyone involved with this project, all the presenters that are part of this pilgrimage series that is now leading us, as it were, like milestones toward the Conference Gathering on May 29 and 30. If people are wanting further information, they can go to www.unveiling2012.org. And we really extend an extraordinarily warm and intimate invitation for your continued participation. If you cannot physically put yourself in that Fort Collins environment, you’re very much invited to participate through your deep listening to not only these dialogues, but to the continuation of Living Dialogues after that, and also to honor the fact that really it is true -- and we’re experiencing it with great gratitude for our listenership and their Website Contact emails from around the world -- that as the world becomes smaller, “yes, we can” and do experience in greater depth and greater joy our own common humanity. We invite you and look forward to seeing you at the conference on May 29 and 30, 2009 in the natural beauty of Fort Collins, Colorado, entitled “2012 NOW - Empowering the Transformation”. For further information and registration you can go to www.unveiling2012.org.“We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth…. and we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself....For the world has changed, and we must change with it…why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration…" -- Barack Obama Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009 And as we say on Living Dialogues: “Dialogue is the Language of Evolutionary Transformation”™.Contact me if you like at www.livingdialogues.com. Visit my blog at Duncan.personallifemedia.com. ”. (For more, including information on the Engaged Elder Wisdom Dialogue Series on my website www.livingdialogues.com, click on Episode Detail to the left above and go to Transcript section.) Among other heartful visionary conversations you will find of particular interest on these themes are my Dialogues on this site with Robert Sitler, John Major Jenkins, Sobonfu Some, Stanislav Grof, John O’Donohue, Michael Meade, Eckhart Tolle, Ted Sorensen, Frances Moore Lappe, Angeles Arrien, Matthew Fox, David Mendell, Deborah Tannen, Gangaji, Michael Dowd, Duane Elgin, and Joseph Ellis, among others [click on their name(s) in green on right hand column of the Living Dialogues Home Page on this site]. After you listen to this Dialogue, I invite you to both explore and make possible further interesting material on Living Dialogues by taking less than 5 minutes to click on and fill out the Listener Survey. My thanks and appreciation for your participation.

In February 2009, Deconstructing Dinner descended upon Edmonton for a week of local and global food education. Every year, the University of Alberta hosts International Week, the largest annual extracurricular educational event on campus. International Week "fosters global citizenship through engagement with today's most pressing issues". In its 24th year, the theme was Hungry for Change: Transcending Feast, Famine and Frenzy. As outlined by the event's organizers, "We live in an unprecedented, contradictory era. Hunger soars amid record harvests. At the same time, community-based democratic movements on every continent are showing the way toward a world without hunger. They are proving that it is possible to reconnect farming with ecological wisdom by enhancing soils and yields while empowering citizens to meet universal human needs for both food and dignity. In such a dark and disorienting time, solutions are still evident. The only real problem we have to worry about is despair arising from feelings of powerlessness. As we dig to the roots of the global crisis, we protect against despair and find our own power. Only then can we perceive how our individual and group actions can dissolve the forces that brought us here and plant the seeds of lasting solutions." Deconstructing Dinner recorded the event's keynote address, delivered by well-known democracy advocate, Frances Moore Lappé. Voices Frances Moore Lappé, co-founder, Small Planet Institute (Boston, MA) - Frances Moore Lappé is a democracy advocate and world food and hunger expert who has authored or co-authored sixteen 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. In 1987, she received the Right Livelihood Award. Her first book, Diet for a Small Planet, has sold three million copies and is considered to be the first book to present a modern-day approach to more conscientious eating. Her most recent books include Hope's Edge, written with her daughter Anna Lappé, about democratic social movements worldwide and Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad.

If you've been listening to the last seven shows, they were all recorded between February and June 2006 and originally hosted on Gcast.  Now I'm done with the transfer of old interviews and we're on to the new!I'm thrilled to have had an opportunity to interview Anna Lappe, the co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen with Bryant Terry, and co-author of Hope's Edge with her mother Frances Moore Lappe.  Anna is also a co-founder, with her mother, of the Small Planet Fund, and a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute, based in Cambridge Massachusetts.You can read a transcript of this interview on my blog, Have Fun * Do Good.

Third of a three-part series on Frances Moore Lappe and democracy. Source

Second of three-part series on Frances Moore Lappe and democracy. Source

First of a three-part series on Frances Moore Lappe and democracy. Source