In these dark days, it can be helpful to keep a list of unexpected and pleasant surprises.
Frances Moore Lappé
Frances Moore Lappé is the author or co-author of 18 books, including the groundbreaking bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet. She and her daughter, Anna Lappé, lead the Small Planet Institute. Lappé is a YES! contributing editor.
We need more than good-heartedness to save our democracy. We need the courage to act on it.
Cynicism and despair are among democracy’s worst enemies.
Entrepreneurs in all walks of life are showing that it’s possible to create companies with business models driven by social purpose.
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: End hunger.
Just a few years ago, powerful grassroots pressure rose up to protect a free and open internet.
The political march is a tool for social transformation in itself. This one gave me a taste of the connected, empowered society I’m working to create.
Today, 800 million of us are considered “hungry,” but we produce enough calories to feed us all. Rather than a lack of food, we’re dealing with a lack of democracy.