EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want

Date/Time:	Thursday, 03 Nov 2011 at 8:00 pm
Location:	Great Hall, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
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Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
Categories:	Lectures Live Green
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Frances Moore Lapp is the author of seventeen books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. Her new book, EcoMind, argues that the way we look at today's environmental challenges robs us of power and prevents us from positive action. From global hunger to the environmental crisis, we have the resources we need to make a difference, but what Lapp calls our "thought traps" hold us back. She is the cofounder...

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In 1987 Lapp received the Right Livelihood Award (considered an "Alternative Nobel") "for revealing the political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them."

Her first book, Diet for a Small Planet is considered "the blueprint for eating with a small carbon footprint since long before the term was coined," according to J. M. Hirsch, Associated Press. In 2008 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 and was named by Gourmet Magazine as one of 25 people whose work has changed the way America eats.

Her other books include: Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want; Scarcity Myths: The Power of Ideas to Shape the World We Want; Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet; and Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad.