EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want

Lappe, Frances Moore

ISBN 10: 1568586833 / ISBN 13: 9781568586830

Published by Nation Books, New York, 2011

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Second printing. Signed by the author on the title page: "Frances Moore Lappe." The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, tail of spine lightly bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $26.00); a "Signed Copy / brookline booksmith" sticker on the front panel; Brodart protected.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want
• Publisher: Nation Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568586833
• ISBN 13: 9781568586830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappé—a giant of the environmental movement—confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest challenge to human survival isn't our fossil fuel dependency, melting glaciers, or other calamities. Rather, it's our faulty way of thinking about these environmental crises that robs us of power. Lappé dismantles seven common “thought traps”—from limits to growth to the failings of democracy— that belie what we now know about nature, including our own, and offers contrasting “thought leaps” that reveal our hidden power.

Like her Diet for a Small Planet classic, EcoMind is challenging, controversial and empowering.

About the Author

Frances Moore Lappe is the author of 17 books and cofounder of Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy, the Small Planet Institute, and the Small Planet Fund. She works in Cambridge, Massachusetts.