Misplaced Pages

#105894

24-1325: Lappe or Lappé is a German-language surname. Notable people with this surname include: Anna Lappé (born 1973), American author and educator Benay Lappe (1960), American rabbi Frances Moore Lappé (1944), American researcher and author Gemze de Lappe (1922–2017), American dancer Jean-Roger Lappé-Lappé (1981), Cameroonian footballer Joseph DeLappe (1963), UK-based American artist and academic Karl-Heinz Lappe (1987), German footballer Linda Lappe (1980), American college basketball coach Pele de Lappe (1916–2007), American artist See also [ edit ] Lappe, Ontario , unorganized part of Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada Lapp (disambiguation) References [ edit ] ^ "Lappe Nachname" . forebears.io . Retrieved 2022-02-27 . Lappe Definition des Nachnamens: Lapp, Lappe mittelhochdeutsch lappe »einfältiger Mensch, Laffe«. Johannes v. Zimmern, genitivisch Lapp um 1440 Württemberg Dazu Schwaderlapp (mittelhochdeutsch swaderer »Schwätzer«). Rolappe (niederdeutsch, d. i. ^ "Lappe Name Meaning" . ancestry.com . Retrieved 2022-02-27 . nickname meaning 'spark', 'dandy'. variant of Lapp [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

48-558: A bi-monthly column on sustainability for Spirituality & Health Magazine and has contributed book reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle and New Scientist . In 2006, Lappé was a consulting editor for a special issue on food for The Nation and has consulted with Heifer International on their magazine, World Ark . A frequent public speaker, in the past decade Lappé has participated in more than 500 events, from community food festivals to university lectures to emceeing

72-636: A food-focused fundraiser at Sotheby's. She has been a keynote speaker and guest lecturer at dozens of colleges and universities, including Boston College, the University of Colorado, Boulder, University of California, Santa Cruz, Dominican University, Brown University, Dickinson College, University of Montana at Missoula, University of Texas at El Paso, Columbia University, Gallatin School at NYU, Yale University, Eckerd College in Florida, and many more. Lappé can be seen as

96-765: A handful of "food fighters". In 2007, she was chosen by the Missing Peace Project for the Compassion in Action Award and in 2006 Lappé was selected for Contribute magazine's "21 Under 40 Making a Difference" and Time magazine's "Eco" Who's Who. Lappé has also contributed to the following books: Lappé's writing has been published in The Washington Post , The Wall Street Journal , The Guardian , Los Angeles Times , International Herald Tribune , and Canada's The Globe and Mail , among others. She wrote

120-402: A sense of agency, meaning, and connection, which she describes as the essence of human dignity. Democracy is not only what we do in the voting booth but involves our daily choices of what we buy and how we live. She believes that only by "living democracy" can we effectively solve today's social and environmental crises. Lappé began her writing career early in life. She first gained prominence in

144-580: Is a report entitled Crisis of Trust: How Can Democracies Protect Against Dangerous Lies? with Max Boland and Rachel Madison. Recent books by Lappé include Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want , co-authored with Adam Eichen, and It’s Not Too Late: Crisis, Opportunity, and the Power of Hope . In 1987, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "revealing

168-586: Is an American researcher and author in the field of food and democracy policy. She is the author of 20 books including the 2.5-million-copy selling 1971 book Diet for a Small Planet , which the Smithsonian 's National Museum of American History describes as "one of the most influential political tracts of the times." She has co-founded three organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty, and environmental crises, as well as solutions emerging worldwide through what she calls "living democracy". Her latest work

192-629: Is an active board member of Rainforest Action Network and serves informally in an advisory capacity to a number of grassroots media organizations and documentary films. She is a former board member of the Center for Media and Democracy , the Community Food Security Coalition (2005–2006) and b-healthy (Build Healthy Eating and Lifestyles to Help Youth), a New York City-based non-profit organization (2004–2006). Frances Moore Lapp%C3%A9 Frances Moore Lappé (born February 10, 1944)

216-423: Is caused not by the lack of food but rather by the inability of hungry people to gain access to the abundance of food that exists in the world and/or food-producing resources because they are simply too poor. She has posited that our current "thin democracy" creates a maldistribution of power and resources that inevitably creates waste and an artificial scarcity of the essentials for sustainable living . Lappé makes

240-463: Is the daughter of author Frances Moore Lappé and toxicologist Marc Lappé . She holds an M.A. in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and graduated with honors from Brown University . From 2004 to 2006, she was a Food and Society Fellow , a national program of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation . In 2010, she was the first "Innovator" with

264-787: The James Beard Foundation as the Humanitarian of the Year. In the same year, Gourmet Magazine named Lappé among 25 people (including Thomas Jefferson , Upton Sinclair , and Julia Child ), whose work has changed the way America eats. Diet for a Small Planet was selected as one of 75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World by members of the Women's National Book Association in observance of its 75th anniversary. Lappé has received 20 honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions, including

SECTION 10

#1732851054106

288-656: The University of Michigan , Kenyon College , Allegheny College , Lewis and Clark College , Grinnell College and University of San Francisco . In 1987 in Sweden, Lappé became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award . In 2003, she received the Rachel Carson Award from the National Nutritional Foods Association . She was selected as one of twelve living "women whose words have changed

312-616: The surname Lappe . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lappe&oldid=1146727268 " Categories : Surnames German-language surnames Surnames from nicknames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description with empty Wikidata description All set index articles Anna Lapp%C3%A9 With her mother Frances Moore Lappé , Lappé co-founded

336-844: The Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute , an international network for research and popular education about the root causes of hunger and poverty. The Lappés are also co-founders of the Small Planet Fund , which has raised nearly $ 1 million for democratic social movements worldwide, two of which have won the Nobel Peace Prize since the Fund's founding in 2002. Lappé's research on sustainable agriculture has taken her from Brooklyn to South Korea, China, Bangladesh, India, Poland, France, Italy, Mali, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, and beyond. Lappé

360-676: The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming. Among other consulting and advisory roles, Lappé is an active board member of Rainforest Action Network and an advisor to the International Fund to Amplify Agro-Ecological Solutions. She was born in Yonkers, and lives in the Bay Area with her husband and daughters. Lappé's writing and advocacy have earned her numerous accolades. In 2009, The New York Times Magazine featured her among

384-841: The Small Planet Fund, channeling resources to democratic social movements worldwide. In 2006 she was chosen as a founding councilor of the Hamburg-based World Future Council . She is also a member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture and the National Advisory Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists . She serves as an advisor to the Calgary Centre for Global Community and on

408-460: The argument that what she calls "living democracy", i.e., democracy understood as a way of life, is not merely a structure of government. The three conditions essential for democracy, she writes in Daring Democracy and elsewhere, are the wide dispersion of power, transparency in public affairs, and a culture of mutual accountability, not blaming. These three conditions enable humans to experience

432-412: The barriers of greed and power to hold a torch high for the rest of us. Lappé is one of those." The Washington Post says: "Some of the twentieth century's most vibrant activist thinkers have been American women – Margaret Mead , Jeannette Rankin , Barbara Ward , Dorothy Day – who took it upon themselves to pump life into basic truths. Frances Moore Lappé is among them." In 2008, she was honored by

456-479: The board of David Korten 's People-Centered Development Forum. In 2009 she joined the advisory board of Corporate Accountability International's Value the Meal campaign. Lappé is a Contributing Editor to YES! Magazine . Lappé has also held various teaching and scholarly positions: Historian Howard Zinn wrote: "A small number of people in every generation are forerunners, in thought, action, spirit, who swerve past

480-552: The center's American News Service (1995–2000), which placed stories of citizen problem-solving in nearly half the nation's largest newspapers. In 2002, Lappé and her daughter Anna established the Small Planet Institute based in Cambridge, Massachusetts , a collaborative network for research and popular education to bring democracy to life. With her daughter, she traveled the world and wrote Hope's Edge. The two also co-founded

504-563: The co-host of the public television series, The Endless Feast and as a featured expert on PBS's Need to Know , the Sundance Channel's Big Ideas for a Small Planet and the PBS documentary, Nourish . She is a regular guest on nationally syndicated radio shows and has been on hundreds of radio programs, including National Public Radio's Weekend Edition , The Diane Rehm Show , and WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show and Leonard Lopate Show . Lappé

SECTION 20

#1732851054106

528-631: The early 1970s with the publication of her book Diet for a Small Planet , which has sold 2.5 million copies. In 1975, with Joseph Collins, she launched the California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) to educate Americans about the causes of world hunger. In 1990, Lappé co-founded the Center for Living Democracy, a nine-year initiative to accelerate the spread of democratic innovations in which regular citizens contribute to problem-solving. She served as founding editor of

552-626: The political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them." Lappé was born in 1944 in Pendleton, Oregon , to John and Ina Moore and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas . After graduating from Earlham College in 1966, she married toxicologist and environmentalist Dr. Marc Lappé in 1967. They have two children, Anthony and Anna Lappé . She briefly attended University of California at Berkeley for graduate studies in social work. Throughout her works Lappé has argued that world hunger

576-630: The world" by the Women's National Book Association. Lappé's son, Anthony, is a New York City -based, award-winning media producer (Invisible Hand Media), whose work has appeared on Vice.com and the History Channel . Her daughter, Anna, who lives in Berkeley, California, is the author of Grub and Diet for a Hot Planet . She is the executive director of Global Alliance for the Future of Food. Frances Moore Lappé's works have been translated into 15 languages,

#105894