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M urray Bookchin, the visionary and often iconoclastic social theorist and activist, died Sunday, July 30 in his home in Burlington, Vermont.…
Brian Tokar
Brian Tokar is an activist and author, and a long-time faculty and board member of the Institute for Social Ecology, based in Plainfield, Vermont. He is the author of The Green Alternative (1987, Revised 1992), Earth for Sale (1997), and Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change (2010, Revised 2014), and he has also edited three volumes on biotechnology and food issues. His latest book is Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions (Routledge, 2020), an international collection on grassroots climate responses, coedited with Tamra Gilbertson, a lecturer at the University of Tennessee.
Brian was a founding board member of Vermont’s 350.org affiliate, 350Vermont, and served on that board for ten years. He has contributed to several recent international collections, including The Routledge Handbook on the Climate Change Movement (2014) and Handbook of Climate Justice (2019), Climate Justice and the Economy (2018), Globalism and Localization: Emergent Solutions to Our Ecological and Social Crises (2019), The Global Food System: Issues and Solutions (2014), and Pluriverse: The Post-Development Reader (2019).
Murray Bookchin, the visionary social theorist and activist, died during the early morning of Sunday, July 30th in his home in Burlington,…
In the late Spring of 2003, amidst the political fallout of “Old Europe’s” refusal to support the US invasion of Iraq, the…
E xpectations were high in early December 2005, as 10,000 delegates representing 189 countries converged in Montreal to discuss the future of…
From Z Magazine, April 2004 The World Bank, Biotechnology and the “Next Green Revolution” — Brian Tokar Later this month (April 22…
Brian Tokar Virtually all of the new, technology-based industries of the past century have been products of wartime. World War I…
Brian Tokar Vermont’s annual town meetings, held every year on the first Tuesday in March, are among the oldest surviving institutions…
Brian Tokar Later this month, thousands of people will converge on San Diego, California for what may be the largest protest…
One important feature of the actions in Seattle and Washington, DC was many activists’ focus on a serious new threat to our…
While the biotechnology industry continues to promise miracles– new ways to feed the world, solutions to intractable medical problems, enhanced "freedom of…