Anna Lappé

Anna Lappé is the founder of Real Food Media, and co-founder of the Small Planet Institute and Small Planet Fund. She is also a bestselling author, most recently of Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It.

Environmental ActivismJune 18, 2018

Hawaii Just Made a Brilliant End Run Around Scott Pruitt’s EPA

By banning the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos, the state is doing what the EPA refuses to do—protect its residents’ health.

Anna Lappé
GovernmentMay 25, 2018

What if School Lunch Programs Promoted Public Health, Good Jobs, and the Environment?

From LA to Cook County, local governments are using their purchasing power to transform the food system.

Anna Lappé and Jose Oliva
Ethical EconomicsOctober 13, 2017

Danny Meyer Has a Few ‘Tips’ of His Own

An interview with the restaurateur behind Shake Shack on ending tips and educating diners.

Anna Lappé
BusinessOctober 14, 2014

Big Soda Is Outspending Its Opposition 10-to-1 to Fight a Soda Tax in Berkeley

Berkeley residents overwhelmingly support the measure, but beverage companies are fighting back.

Anna Lappé
ActivismSeptember 14, 2011

Who Says Food Is a Human Right?

Olivier De Schutter, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, makes the case in this Q&A.

Anna Lappé
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ActivismSeptember 2, 2009

Cafeteria Consciousness

Concerned about global warming, students are pushing for change--in their dining halls.

Anna Lappé
Education ReformAugust 27, 2006

Doing Lunch

Ann Cooper, gourmet chef turned healthy school food advocate, talks about becoming a "lunch lady" and what it takes to reform our children's cafeterias.

Anna Lappé
EnvironmentAugust 24, 2006

Monsantopoly

Anna Lappé and Matthew Willse

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Anna Lappé

Environmental ActivismJune 18, 2018

By banning the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos, the state is doing what the EPA refuses to do—protect its residents’ health.

GovernmentMay 25, 2018

From LA to Cook County, local governments are using their purchasing power to transform the food system.

Ethical EconomicsOctober 13, 2017

An interview with the restaurateur behind Shake Shack on ending tips and educating diners.

BusinessOctober 14, 2014

Berkeley residents overwhelmingly support the measure, but beverage companies are fighting back.

ActivismSeptember 14, 2011

Olivier De Schutter, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, makes the case in this Q&A.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

ActivismSeptember 2, 2009

Concerned about global warming, students are pushing for change--in their dining halls.

Education ReformAugust 27, 2006

Ann Cooper, gourmet chef turned healthy school food advocate, talks about becoming a "lunch lady" and what it takes to reform our children's cafeterias.

EnvironmentAugust 24, 2006