Contact: Steven Crandell, 805 965-3443, scrandell@napf.org
Juliet Spohn Twomey, 805 969-5031, Juliet@lcdm.org

A woman who changed the way the world thinks about food --
and now wants to change the way it thinks about democracy --
will come to Santa Barbara next month to give a free lecture.
Frances Moore Lappé will deliver the 8th Annual Frank K.

Bosque Road, Montecito, CA 93108), which is co-sponsoring
the event with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

Lappé's lecture is entitled : "Living Democracy, Feeding Hope." The theme captures
her passion for participatory democracy built upon hope for a better future.
The public is welcome, but space is limited to 140 people. People are encouraged to
arrive a little early to ensure getting a seat.

Frances Moore Lappé is a democracy advocate and world food and hunger expert who
has authored or co-authored 16 books. She is the co-founder of the Small Planet Institute
www.smallplanetinstitute.org, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé .
In 1987, she received the Right Livelihood Award (sometimes called the "Alternative
Nobel Prize.") Her first book, Diet for a Small Planet, has sold three million copies and is
considered "the blueprint for eating with a small carbon footprint since long before the
term was coined" [JM Hirsch, Associated Press].

Her most recent book is Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World
Gone Mad, awarded the Nautilus Gold/"Best in Small Press" award. In June 2008, that
book and Diet for a Small Planet were designated as must-reads for the next U.S.
president (by Barbara Kingsolver and Michael Pollan, respectively) in The New York
Times Sunday Review of Books. Other recent books include Hope's Edge, written with
Anna Lappé, about democratic social movements worldwide, as well as You Have the
Power and Democracy's Edge.

Lappé received the 2008 James Beard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year Award for
her lifelong impact on the way people all over the world think about food, nutrition, and
agriculture..

In 2008, Gourmet Magazine named Lappé among 25 people (including Thomas
Jefferson, Upton Sinclair, and Julia Child), whose work has changed the way America
eats. The same year, 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.

In 2006, she was chosen as a founding councilor of the Hamburg-based World Future
Council. She is joined on the council by Nuclear Age Peace Foundation President David
Krieger.

Historian Howard Zinn writes: "A small number of people in every generation are
forerunners, in thought, action, spirit, who swerve past the barriers of green and power to
hold a torch high for the rest of us. Lappé is one of those."
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The Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity's Future was established by the Nuclear
Age Peace Foundation in 2002. The lecture series honors Frank Kelly, a founder and
senior vice president of the Foundation. Each annual lecture is presented by a
distinguished individual to explore the contours of humanity's present circumstances and
ways by which we can today shape a more promising future for our planet.

realize the imperative for peace in the Nuclear Age. The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
is a non-profit, non-partisan international education and advocacy organization.
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