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. ^[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

• The Green Alternative (1987, Revised 1992) ^[5]
• Earth for Sale (1997) ^{[6] [7] [8]}
• Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change (2010, Revised 2014) ^{[9] [10]}

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]

References

1. "Brian Tokar". Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
2. Author, Guest (June 11, 2024). "Rumored Goddard Sale Sparks Community Protest".{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
3. "Salad Days for Greens? : As Ecological Worries Mount, a U.S. Movement Takes Root". Los Angeles Times . 27 June 1989.
4. Vitale, Alfred (2010). "Tokar, Brian (B. 1955)". The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. p. 1. doi:10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp1741. ISBN   978-1-4051-8464-9.
5. https://content.ebscohost.com/cds/retrieve?content=AQICAHjPtM4BHU3ZchRwgzYmadcigk49r9CVlbU7V5F6lgH7WwESTBdPHUT_pDrzf5wjFjXOAAAA1zCB1AYJKoZIhvcNAQcGoIHGMIHDAgEAMIG9BgkqhkiG9w0BBwEwHgYJYIZIAWUDBAEuMBEEDKAPKj01sdssc6NhFAIBEICBj1qCNZGrUKG2UpRhUSrS1Xn8kJdLNSWHKH2WYcd8Y_i8PqYTFkgkdVdMWMw6CeBCGdTuD0PCUfzg_YVr51uWVfiCM4mTKwsZzgbG1jRBAbm_fjFWPcQQ1hAYg93CmOLgYEqy6rtErSEew5UoExwVBiOAsmZeRlSnYqJqZvFcpP9mcMQXYE-S1tsYnw-kK-HS%5B%5D
6. Fox, Julia (1999). "Review of Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash". Organization & Environment. 12 (3): 342–344. JSTOR   26161484. ProQuest   219870507.
7. "Books: Chasing the wrong kind of green". natcath.org.
8. Barkin, David (June 1999). "Corporate nature". Capitalism Nature Socialism. 10 (2): 159–162. doi:10.1080/10455759909358863.
9. "Toward climate justice: Perspectives on the climate crisis and social change, by Brian Tokar, Communalism Press (2010), 137 pp., $14.95, ISBN 9788293064015. « Journal of Sustainability Education".
10. "The politics of climate change activism | International Socialist Review". isreview.org. Archived from the original on 2022-01-17. Retrieved 2025-09-03.
11. Marchant, Robert (March 2002). "Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering . Edited by Brian Tokar. London and New York: Zed Books . $69.95 (hardcover); $19.95 (paper). v + 440 p; index. ISBN: 1–85649–834–4 (hc); 1–85649–835–2 (pb). 2001". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 77 (1): 61. doi:10.1086/343611.
12. "Book Review: Brian Tokar (ed.): Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering". Journal of Islamic Sciences. Archived from the original on 2025-08-28. Retrieved 2025-08-10.
13. Kelly, Susan E. (2002). "Review of Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering". Contemporary Sociology. 31 (4): 464–465. doi:10.2307/3089116. JSTOR   3089116. ProQuest   233598953.
14. Haque, Muhammad M. (22 March 2012). "Tokar, Brian (ed). Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade, and the Globalization of Hunger". Journal of Third World Studies. 29 (1): 353–357. Gale   A302297520.
15. Rioux, Sébastien (June 2013). "Book review: Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar (eds.)". Capital & Class. 37 (2): 317–319. doi:10.1177/0309816813489943e.
16. Brem-Wilson, Josh (September 2011). "Book Review: Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal". Organization & Environment. 24 (3): 336–338. Bibcode:2011OrgEn..24..336B. doi:10.1177/1086026611422048.
17. Klikauer, Thomas; Young, Meg (6 January 2022). "Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson (eds.), 'Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions'". Philosophy in Review. 41 (4): 265–266. doi: 10.7202/1084784ar .