What Will it Take to Make the Future Sustainable?
Frances Moore Lappe and Joel Kovel
Wednesday, 19 Apr 2006 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Frances Moore Lappe, author of Scarcity Myths: The Power of Ideas to Shape the World We Want, is the co-founder of two national organizations focused on food and the roots of democracy. The Institute for Food and Development Policy (known as Food First), is action-based non-profit organization dealing with the causes of and solutions for world hunger. She later co-founded the Center for Living Democracy, a ten-year initiative that inspires and prepares people to make democracy a rewarding, practical, everyday approach to solving society's problems. Her other books include Diet for a Small Planet, and Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet. Joel Kovel is Professor of Social Studies at Bard College and author of many books including White Racism, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972; A Complete Guide to Therapy; The Age of Desire; Against the State of Nuclear Terror; and The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or The End of the World.Cosponsored By:
- Bioethics Program
- Grad Program in Sustainable Ag Student Association
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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