Brian Tokar
American environmental activist and author
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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.[1] He was a member of the Goddard College faculty until 2001.[2] He is a "prominent theorist" in the American green movement according to The Los Angeles Times.[3]
In 1999, Tokar received a Project Censored award for a 1998 investigative piece on the history of Monsanto published in The Ecologist.[4]
Publications
Books
Editor
- Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering (Zed Books, 2001)[11][12][13]
- Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade, and the Globalization of Hunger (Toward Freedom, 2004)[14]
- Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal (co-edited with Fred Magdoff) (Monthly Review Press, 2010)[15][16]
- Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions (Routledge 2020) (co-edited with Tamra Gilbertson)[17]