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Tokar: The Green Alternative: Creating an Ecological Future
Book, October, 12 2007
The first book to fully explore the emergence of grassroots Green politics in the US, first published in 1987, and revised in 1992.
Tokar: Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering
Book, October, 12 2007
Twenty-six internationally respected critics offer their analysis of the issues, their social and ethical implications, and the stories behind the headlines that have brought genetic engineering to the forefront of public controversy worldwide.
Tokar: The New Energy Debates
Zmag Article, January, 01 2007
Brian Tokar
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The consequences of inaction on climate have become much clearer over the past year, from ever-more disturbing changes in the daily weather to unprecedented droughts and floods in many locations. Al Gore’s self-promoting, but strikingly graphic a...
Tokar: Murray Bookchin, Visionary Social Theorist
Zmag Article, September, 01 2006
Brian Tokar
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M urray Bookchin, the visionary and often iconoclastic social theorist and activist, died Sunday, July 30 in his home in Burlington, Vermont. He was 85. During a prolific career of writing, teachin...
Tokar: Murray Bookchin, Visionary Social Theorist, Dies At 85
Znet Article, July, 31 2006
Brian Tokar
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Murray Bookchin, the visionary social theorist and activist, died during the early morning of Sunday, July 30th in his home in Burlington, Vermont. During a prolific career of writing, teaching and political activism that spanned half a century, B...
Tokar: WTO vs. Europe: Less-and Also More-Than it Seems
Znet Article, February, 15 2006
Brian Tokar
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In the late Spring of 2003, amidst the political fallout of "Old Europe's" refusal to support the US invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration threw down a gauntlet that threatened to permanently aggravate transatlantic hostilities. As a political...
Tokar: Climate Talks in Montreal
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Brian Tokar
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Expectations were high in early December 2005, as 10,000 delegates representing 189 countries converged in Montreal to discuss the future of international measures to limit global climate change. In the end, U.S. obstruction nearly carried the da...
Tokar: The World Bank, Biotechnology and the “Next Green Revolution”
Zmag Article, April, 16 2004
Brian Tokar
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A close examination of the ways the World Bank promotes biotechnology and the rest of the agribusiness agenda reveals impacts that are tangibly felt by people around the world. With the Bush administration seeking WTO action against the European U...
Tokar: Agribusiness, Biotechnology, and War
Zmag Article, September, 01 2002
Brian Tokar
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Brian Tokar Virtually all of the new, technology-based industries of the past century have been products of wartime. World War I ushered in the widespread use of mechanization and the...
Tokar: Vermont Towns Vote Against Biotech Foods
Zmag Article, May, 01 2002
Brian Tokar
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In 2002, 28 Vermont towns voted against genetically engineered foods, beginning a wave that has spread to over 100 towns in New England and several California counties.
Tokar: Biotechnology
Zmag Article, June, 01 2001
Brian Tokar
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News of the hazards of genetically engineered foods has finally broken into the U.S. mainstream media, as the evidence for the unique dangers of genetically engineered foods continues to grow. Understanding the implications of commodification of f...
Tokar: Gathering RAGE
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Brian Tokar
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One important feature of the actions in Seattle and Washington, DC was many activists’ focus on a serious new threat to our food and health: The rise of genetic engineering as the technology-of-choice in countless new areas of co...
Tokar: Resisting Genetic Engineering
Commentary, March, 28 1999
Brian Tokar
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While the biotechnology industry continues to promise miracles-- new ways to feed the world, solutions to intractable medical problems, enhanced "freedom of choice" in human reproduction, and more -- activists worldwide have recently stepped up th...
Tokar: Biotechnology and the Commodification of Life
Commentary, March, 03 1999
Brian Tokar
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The U.S.government's aggressive advocacy for the biotechnology industry, and its potentially disastrous agenda of reshaping world agriculture, has finally made international headlines.
Tokar: Monsanto: A Checkered History
Zmag Article, March, 01 1999
Brian Tokar
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An investigative history of the Monsanto company, the most aggressive promoters today of GMO agriculture. This is a version of the article that won a 1999 Project Censored award.
Tokar: Greenhouse Politics
Zmag Article, December, 01 1997
Brian Tokar
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This December, heads of state from some 180 countries will convene in Kyoto, Japan in an attempt to negotiate the first internationally binding treaty to control levels of carbon dioxide and other climate-altering emissions. It is d...
Tokar: Questioning Official Environmentalism
Zmag Article, April, 01 1997
Brian Tokar
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Seven years ago in these pages, we launched an in-depth investigation of the mainstream environmental movement. The occasion was the widely publicized 20th anni...
