Brian Tokar

Brian Tokar is an American environmental activist and author. He is a faculty and board member of the Institute for Social Ecology. Since 2006, he has been a lecturer in the Environmental Program at the University of Vermont. He was a member of the Goddard College faculty until 2001. He is a "prominent theorist" in the American green movement according to The Los Angeles Times.

In 1999, Tokar received a Project Censored award for a 1998 investigative piece on the history of Monsanto published in The Ecologist.

Publications Books The Green Alternative (1987, Revised 1992) Earth for Sale (1997) Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change (2010, Revised 2014)

Editor Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering (Zed Books, 2001) Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade, and the Globalization of Hunger (Toward Freedom, 2004) Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal (co-edited with Fred Magdoff) (Monthly Review Press, 2010) Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions (Routledge 2020) (co-edited with Tamra Gilbertson)