Forty years after her mother's work changed the way we eat, Anna Lappé's Diet for a Hot Planet changed the way we think about food production and global warming.Fifty years ago, Frances Moore Lappé's Diet for a Small Planet sparked a revolution in thinking about the social and environmental impact of what we eat. Ten years ago, her daughter, Anna Lappé, controversially picked up the conversation with Diet for...

In the past few years, organic food has moved out of the patchouli-scented aisles of hippie food co-ops and into three-quarters of conventional grocery stores. Concurrent with this growth has been increased consumer awareness of the social and health-related issues around organic eating, independent farming, and food production.Combining a straight-to-the-point exposé about organic foods (organic doesn't mean fresh, natural, or independently produced) and the how-to's of creating a...

An exploration of our relationship with food and eating locally—from the bestselling author of Your Money or Your LifeTaking the local food movement to heart, Vicki Robin pledged for one month to eat only food sourced within a ten-mile radius of her home on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, Washington. Like Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and the bestselling books of Michael Pollan, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us is part per...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.There is a fairly standard list of environmentally friendly actions American consumers are typically encouraged to take: “drive less, buy a hybrid car, buy energy-efficient appliances, change our light bulbs.” But Anna Lappé points out that this list entirely neglects food. Since 31 percent of greenhouse gas emissions can be traced bac...

Break the sugar habit with this inspiring, easy-to-follow cookbook!Overcome your sugar cravings, lose weight, and get your health back on track! With more than 100 mouthwatering recipes, menus, and gorgeous color photographs, SugarDetox.Me is on a mission to help readers shake their addiction to the sweet stuff. It not only arms you with scientific knowledge about the harmful effects of sugar, it offers an achievable strategy for detoxing safely and effecti...

Tolvåriga Hilja och hennes lillebror Antti har tvingats lämna allt och alla bakom sig. De är bara två utav alla de finska barn som skickats till Sverige för ett liv bortom kriget. Ett liv utan mamma, pappa och syskonen. Efter tre dagars resa och två veckors karantän når de så småningom den lilla byn Vesene i Västergötland. Här måste de skiljas åt, fastän Hilja lovat att alltid se efter sin lillebror. Trots detta lär hon sig snabbt att uppskatta sin nya tillvaro, på gården hos tant Maria oc...