Brian Tokar is acclaimed as a passionate advocate of grassroots action for global justice and an ecological future. He has been an activist, author and a prominent voice on environmental issues since the 1970s.
He is the author of
The Green Alternative and
Earth for Sale and editor of
Redesigning Life?, an international collection on the politics and implications of biotechnology. His latest book is
Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade and the Globalization of Hunger.
Tokar's articles on environmental issues, emerging ecological movements, global warming, and genetic engineering appear regularly in
Z Magazine, Synthesis/Regeneration, Toward Freedom, Counterpunch.org and many other publications and websites.
Tokar received a Project Censored award for his investigative history of Monsanto Corporation (published in
The Ecologist) and was an organizer of the annual "Biodevastation" protests against the biotechnology industry.
Tokar holds concurrent degrees from MIT in biology and physics, and a Masters degree in biophysics from Harvard University. He is a faculty member and director of several activist projects at Vermont's Institute for Social Ecology.
He has lectured throughout the U.S., as well as internationally, on ecological issues and movements.
His speech topics include:
- The Politics and Science of Global Warming
- Global Warming and the Struggle for Justice
- Agribusiness, Biotechnology and War
- Genetic Engineering: Food, the Environment and Corporate Power
- Food Sovereignty and Global Justice
