Food and Climate Change
Frances Moore Lappé developed the “table tent” idea after speaking to college students around the country, who were asking for more information, tools and resources. The fruit of this idea is a set of 12 small display “table tents” featuring facts and information pointing to the connection between food and climate change. The “tents” are easily printed and assembled, and it is our hope that students will distribute and display them in communal areas and dining halls to spark conversation and raise awareness.
In the Fall of 2009, Small Planet partnered with Slow Food On Campus to make this free resource available to students nationwide. Along with a fact sheet and an organizer’s guide, the table tents are available for download here.
Small Planet’s Table Tents were recently on display at
University of Rhode Island’s Slow Food Chapter’s table
at their Campus Sustainability Day on October 21st.
To download the resources, click the links below:
Table Tents in B+W
Table Tents in Color
Table Tent Assembly Instructions
Table Tent Organizer’s Guide
Table Tent Fact Sheet w/Sources
A majority of facts on the table tents were drawn from current and upcoming publications of Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé:
Frances Moore Lappé:
Diet for a Small Planet
Liberation Ecology
Anna Lappé:
Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It (March 2010 release from Bloomsbury, available for pre-order now).
Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (with Bryant Terry)
Visit Anna’s website Take a Bite Out of Climate Change for more information.
To view a complete list of sources of facts that appear on the table tents, see the document Table Tent Fact Sheet w/Sources.
About our partner:
Slow Food on Campus is a network of Slow Food chapters at colleges and universities across the country. Run by student members, Slow Food on Campus chapters engage their community and the next generation of Slow Food leaders in creating a good, clean, and fair food system. To learn more about starting a Slow Food chapter at your school, email .
In addition, Slow Food on Campus teamed up with 350, Student/Farmworker Alliance and Real Food Challenge to host three different events geared to draw attention to the themes of Good, Clean and Fair.
Click here for more information on their campaigns and additional resources developed by these organizations.
Table tent design by Michael Kowalski