{{Short description|American environmental activist and author}}
'''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.<ref>{{cite web | title=Brian Tokar | url=https://www.uvm.edu/environmentalprogram/profiles/brian-tokar | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124022315/https://www.uvm.edu/environmentalprogram/profiles/brian-tokar | archive-date=24 January 2021 | access-date=3 September 2025 | url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> He was a member of the Goddard College faculty until 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thebridgevt.org/2024/06/rumored-goddard-sale-sparks-community-protest/|title=Rumored Goddard Sale Sparks Community Protest|first=Guest|last=Author|date=June 11, 2024}}</ref> He is a "prominent theorist" in the American green movement according to ''The Los Angeles Times''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Salad Days for Greens? : As Ecological Worries Mount, a U.S. Movement Takes Root | website=Los Angeles Times | date=27 June 1989 | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-27-vw-4485-story.html }}</ref>
In 1999, Tokar received a Project Censored award for a 1998 investigative piece on the history of Monsanto published in ''The Ecologist''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vitale |first1=Alfred |title=The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest |chapter=Tokar, Brian (B. 1955) |date=2010 |page=1 |doi=10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp1741 |isbn=978-1-4051-8464-9 }}</ref>
==Publications== ===Books=== *''The Green Alternative'' (1987, Revised 1992)<ref>https://content.ebscohost.com/cds/retrieve?content=AQICAHjPtM4BHU3ZchRwgzYmadcigk49r9CVlbU7V5F6lgH7WwESTBdPHUT_pDrzf5wjFjXOAAAA1zCB1AYJKoZIhvcNAQcGoIHGMIHDAgEAMIG9BgkqhkiG9w0BBwEwHgYJYIZIAWUDBAEuMBEEDKAPKj01sdssc6NhFAIBEICBj1qCNZGrUKG2UpRhUSrS1Xn8kJdLNSWHKH2WYcd8Y_i8PqYTFkgkdVdMWMw6CeBCGdTuD0PCUfzg_YVr51uWVfiCM4mTKwsZzgbG1jRBAbm_fjFWPcQQ1hAYg93CmOLgYEqy6rtErSEew5UoExwVBiOAsmZeRlSnYqJqZvFcpP9mcMQXYE-S1tsYnw-kK-HS{{Dead link | date=October 2025 | fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> *''Earth for Sale'' (1997)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fox |first1=Julia |title=Review of Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash |journal=Organization & Environment |date=1999 |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=342–344 |id={{ProQuest|219870507}} |jstor=26161484 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/1999a/032699/032699f.htm|title=Books: Chasing the wrong kind of green|website=natcath.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Barkin |first1=David |title=Corporate nature |journal=Capitalism Nature Socialism |date=June 1999 |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=159–162 |doi=10.1080/10455759909358863 }}</ref> *''Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change'' (2010, Revised 2014)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.susted.com/wordpress/content/toward-climate-justice-perspectives-on-the-climate-crisis-and-social-change-by-brian-tokar-communalism-press-2010-137-pp-14-95-isbn-9788293064015_2011_03/|title=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}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://isreview.org/issue/81/politics-climate-change-activism/index.html|title=The politics of climate change activism | International Socialist Review|website=isreview.org|access-date=2025-09-03|archive-date=2022-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117182753/https://isreview.org/issue/81/politics-climate-change-activism/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Editor=== *''Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering'' (Zed Books, 2001)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marchant |first1=Robert |title=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. {{text|ISBN}}: 1–85649–834–4 (hc); 1–85649–835–2 (pb). 2001. |journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology |date=March 2002 |volume=77 |issue=1 |pages=61 |doi=10.1086/343611 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jis.cis-ca.org/book-review-brian-tokar-ed-redesigning-life-the-worldwide-challenge-to-genetic-engineering.html|title=Book Review: Brian Tokar (ed.): Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering|website=Journal of Islamic Sciences|access-date=2025-08-10|archive-date=2025-08-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250828020445/https://jis.cis-ca.org/book-review-brian-tokar-ed-redesigning-life-the-worldwide-challenge-to-genetic-engineering.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kelly |first1=Susan E. |title=Review of Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering |journal=Contemporary Sociology |date=2002 |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=464–465 |id={{ProQuest|233598953}} |doi=10.2307/3089116 |jstor=3089116 }}</ref> *''Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade, and the Globalization of Hunger'' (Toward Freedom, 2004)<ref>{{cite journal |id={{Gale|A302297520}} |last1=Haque |first1=Muhammad M. |title=Tokar, Brian (ed). Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade, and the Globalization of Hunger |journal=Journal of Third World Studies |date=22 March 2012 |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=353–357 }}</ref> *''Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal'' (co-edited with Fred Magdoff) (Monthly Review Press, 2010)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rioux |first1=Sébastien |title=Book review: Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar (eds.) |journal=Capital & Class |date=June 2013 |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=317–319 |doi=10.1177/0309816813489943e }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Brem-Wilson |first1=Josh |title=Book Review: Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal |journal=Organization & Environment |date=September 2011 |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=336–338 |doi=10.1177/1086026611422048 |bibcode=2011OrgEn..24..336B }}</ref> *''Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions'' (Routledge 2020) (co-edited with Tamra Gilbertson)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Klikauer |first1=Thomas |last2=Young |first2=Meg |title=Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson (eds.), 'Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions' |journal=Philosophy in Review |date=6 January 2022 |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=265–266 |doi=10.7202/1084784ar |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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