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Democracy depends on us

HOPE COMES FROM ACTION

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Recent blogs, fact sheets, and publications from the Small Planet Institute

6 months into the Trump administration, it feels impossible to have a full grasp on his many assaults...

Trump's Second Quarter: A Fact Sheet

If the present strategy of voter suppression by the Republican Party is not stopped, the results of the midterms in two...

Democracy Bites:

Amid Trump's teardown of the federal government, despair about the future of our democracy...​​​

We Americans have an obligation to each other and future generations to take on the root causes...

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Who we are

Small Planet Institute believes that hope has enormous power. We identify core, often unspoken, assumptions—economic, political, and psychological—now driving humanity to take our planet in directions that none of us individually would ever choose. In addressing this tragedy, Small Planet focuses on solutions: From the crisis of needless hunger to that of democracy itself, we offer evidence-based, life-serving frames of understanding and stories of possibility to enable all of us to perceive and join in solutions emerging everywhere.

 


“Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.” 

—Frances Moore Lappé

Discover the book that revolutionized the meaning of our food choices and sold more than 3 million copies—now in a 50th-anniversary edition with a timely introduction plus new and updated plant-centered recipes

This new edition features eighty-five updated plant-centered recipes, including more than a dozen new delights from celebrity chefs including Mark Bittman, Padma Lakshmi, Alice Waters, José Andrés, Bryant Terry, Mollie Katzen, and Sean Sherman.

Diet for a Small Planet

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