Brian Tokar has been an activist, author and a critical voice for ecological activism since the 1980s. He is currently the Director of the Institute for Social Ecology and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. Brian's books include The Green Alternative (1987, revised 1992), Earth for Sale (1997), and Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change, released in 2010. He edited two books on the politics of biotechnology, Redesigning Life? and Gene Traders, and co-edited the recent collection, Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal (Monthly Review Press). Brian received a Project Censored award for his investigative history of Monsanto Corporation (first published in The Ecologist) and was an organizer of the annual Biojustice protests against the biotechnology industry from 2000 - 2007. He is a founding member of the activist network Climate SOS, and his articles on environmental issues and popular movements appear in Z Magazine and Synthesis/Regeneration, and on websites such as Counterpunch, ZNet, and Toward Freedom.
The Dialectic of Tech and Society
On Technology’s Past and Future
On the IPCC’s latest climate report
25 Years of GMOs, and Some New Insights from Argentina
25 Years of GMOs, and Some New Insights from Argentina
What Will it Take to Prevent Climate Collapse?
Climate Diplomacy and Climate Action: What’s Next?
Vermont Voters Say No To Tar Sands Oil
Repackaging Copenhagen: Will There Be a Global Climate Agreement?
Politics-as-Usual While the Planet Burns
Earth For Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash
Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade and the Globalization of Hunger
Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering