The first book to fully explore the emergence of grassroots Green politics in the US, first published in 1987, and revised in 1992.
"Brian Tokar has given us the best introduction I have seen to the emerging Green alternative. Without minimizing the problems or romanticizing the Greens, he presents a vision that gives us hope for the future." — Dave Dellinger
"At long last we have a book that provides a truly insightful, well-written and comprehensive account of the Green movement generally and particularly in North America. It is an indispensable introduction to the movement and its ideas." — Murray Bookchin, Director Emeritus, Institute for Social Ecology
"The best American book yet about this promising sociopolitical development." — ABA Booklist
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 Vermontās 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).
