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I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.
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[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.
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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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Relationships are the core message of ecology.
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If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.
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The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.
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There are surprising turning points there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.
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Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.
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Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.
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much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).
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I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.
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Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say no, thanks to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.
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The good life may mean doing some things that do not feel comfortable. It may mean sitting long hours just with yourself as you begin to listen to your own questions. That was the reality for me when I was 27, and it was really terrifying.
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What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new ism, but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.
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Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.
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With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.
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Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.
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You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.
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We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop' I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.
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The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
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