Tools and Links for Living Democracy
The Small Planet Institute offers these downloadable learning tools. We welcome your feedback and suggestions. Please contact us at:
Getting a Grip: Handouts for Group Discussion — a 10-page guide to Eight Ideas for Living Democracy. Adapted from Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad.
Thin Democracy vs. Living Democracy — a 1-page handout from Getting a Grip that contrasts the dominant and failing view of democracy with the more effective now emerging.
The Spiral of Powerlessness & The Spiral of Empowerment—a 2-page handout from Getting a Grip summarizing Frances Moore Lappé’s understanding of the assumptions that impede solutions and those that enable effective problem solving.
Doing Democracy: Ten Practical Arts by Frances Moore Lappé — a 40-page action and reflection guide for effective and rewarding engagement.
Citizen Power 101—Lessons of Community Organizing — an excerpt from Democracy’s Edge that outlines empowering practices and concepts of community organizing.
Toward a Language of Democracy—a 2-page handout suggesting empowering replacements for commonly used terms.
Living Democracy Links
Take a Bite out of Climate Change
http://www.takeabite.cc/
Frances’s Getting a Grip blog
http://www.gettingagrip.org
Small Planet Fund
http://www.smallplanetfund.org/
Frances on Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frances-moore-lappe
Small Planet Events Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=118174470129599247573.00045502cf7fd79788bbc&ll=55.078367,-72.949219&spn=38.246736,79.101563&z=4
Democracy’s Edge website
http://democracysedge.org/
You street
http://youstreet.org/
Center for Media and Democracy
http://www.prwatch.org/
Everyday Democracy
http://www.everyday-democracy.org
Farm Aid
http://www.farmaid.org/
Food First
http://www.foodfirst.org/
Local Harvest
http://www.localharvest.org
Navdanya
http://www.navdanya.org/
Via Campesina: International Peasant Movement
http://viacampesina.org/main_en/index.php
Grassroots International
http://www.grassrootsonline.org/
Oakland Institute
http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/
World Hunger Year
http://www.worldhungeryear.org/