Producer: Pepin Mittelhauser Frances Moore Lapp\xe9 Author, Activist and Co-Founder of Small Planet Institute and Food First \u201cConnecting our Food Choices to Humanity\u2019s Biggest Challenges\u201d Frances Moore Lapp\xe9 is the author or coauthor of 20 books, many focusing on themes of \u201cliving democracy\u201d \u2014 suggesting a government accountable to citizens and a way of living aligned with the deep human need for connection, meaning and power. Her first book, \u201cDiet for a Small Planet\u201d published in 1971, has now sold three million copies. Lapp\xe9\u2019s latest work is the 50th anniversary edition of \u201cDiet for a Small Planet,\u201d released in 2021. In this book Lapp\xe9 integrates her life\u2019s work of connecting food to freedom, including timely material from her 2017 book co-authored with Adam Eichen, \u201cDaring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want.\u201d Lapp\xe9 is co-founder of Oakland-based Food First and the Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter, Anna Lapp\xe9. The recipient of 20 honorary degrees, she has been a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of California, Berkeley, and in 1987 received the Right Livelihood Award, often called the \u201cAlternative Nobel.\u201d She says, \u201cIn my keynote address to the Common Ground Country Fair I will talk about how the food choices we make each day connect us to humanity\u2019s biggest challenges, from needless hunger to diet-related disease to the climate crisis and the undermining of democracy. Making these connections, we can fight despair and discover our power. I\u2019ll share my journey of discovery \u2014 from my first \u2018ah-ha\u2019 that scarcity is not the cause of hunger to stories of self-empowered communities that have overcome hunger as they align with the Earth via regenerative practices. I will bring these lessons home, exploring solutions via what I call \u2018living democracy.\u2019\u201d
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