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.
In these dark days, it can be helpful to keep a list of unexpected and pleasant surprises.
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.
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.
Food became my teacher, and I aligned my taste buds with what the people and planet need.
Scary stories of kidnappings and explosions lead our news feeds, but it's the good news that helps break down the myth of our own powerlessness.
Feelings of fear and powerlessness are driving the cycle of violence that surrounds us. To change that, we need to recognize that we need each other to thrive as individuals.
Frances Moore Lappé on how countries and cities around the world, from Bhutan to Boston, are measuring well-being beyond GDP.
Back in the ’60s, Frances Moore Lappé realized that hunger is caused by a scarcity of democracy, not food. Then, a collective of courageous women farmers showed her how to change that.
This Earth Day, think like an ecosystem—and you just might save the world.
Frances Moore Lappé looks at redefining power and taking it back.
Most human beings are not couch potatoes and whiners. We are doers and creators. In fact, humans need to 'make a dent.'
Poor people are themselves creating the real job growth in much of the Global South through microcredit institutions and people's movements.