Brian Tokar has been an activist, author and a leading critical voice for ecological activism since the 1980s. He is currently the Director of the Institute for Social Ecology and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont.
Tokar is the author of The Green Alternative (1987, revised 1992) and Earth for Sale (1997), has edited two books on the politics of biotechnology, Redesigning Life? and Gene Traders, and co-edited the forthcoming collection, Crisis in Food and Agriculture: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal (Monthly Review Press).
Tokar received a Project Censored award for his investigative history of Monsanto Corporation (first published in The Ecologist), was an organizer of the annual “Biojustice” protests against the biotechnology industry, and is a founding member of the activist network Climate SOS (climatesos.org).
He has lectured throughout the U.S., as well as internationally, and is acclaimed as a passionate advocate of grassroots action for ecological sanity and global justice. His articles on environmental issues and popular movements appear in Z Magazine and Synthesis/Regeneration, and on websites such as Counterpunch, ZNet, Toward Freedom, and WW4Report.
Tokar holds concurrent degrees from MIT in biology and physics, and a Masters degree in biophysics from Harvard University.
His speech topics include:
- Climate Awareness to Climate Justice
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The Politics and Science of Global Warming
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Global Warming and the Struggle for Justice
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Agribusiness, Biotechnology and War
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Genetic Engineering: Food, the Environment and Corporate Power
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Food Sovereignty and Global Justice
