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Location: Vermont / United States
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- Thursday, Mar 07, 2013
Commentary At least 29 towns in Vermont, including Montpelier and Burlington, overwhelmingly passed resolutions opposing the proposed transport of tar sands oil through their region -
- Tuesday, Mar 05, 2013
ZNet Article A review of Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth -
- Sunday, Dec 04, 2011
ZNet Article People are fed up, and no longer too timid nor too defeated to speak out loudly against the status quo, and for a different kind of society -
- Saturday, Oct 15, 2011
ZNet Article The book Organizing Cools the Planet urges us to take home some of the most practical, creative, and up-to-date lessons about the ongoing development of social movements -
- Tuesday, Oct 04, 2011
ZNet Article The Occupy Wall Street campaign, now in its third week, has inspired a wide range of commentaries, as well as like-minded events all across the US -
- Saturday, Jul 16, 2011
ZNet Article Review of Loisaida, by Dan Chodorkoff -
- Tuesday, Mar 29, 2011
Book The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. Drawing on more than three decades of political engagement with energy and climate issues, Brian Tokar shows how the perspective of social ecology can point... -
- Monday, Dec 20, 2010
Book The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis, editors Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an exceptional collection of scholars... -
- Thursday, Aug 26, 2010
ZNet Article New book interview... -
- Wednesday, Aug 11, 2010
Book Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate Justice, challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions, including the emergence of new nuclear and biofuel technologies, and dissects the events that shaped the diplom... -
- Thursday, Apr 22, 2010
Commentary The 40th anniversary of the original Earth Day is upon us, and many seasoned environmentalists are nostalgic for the heady days of the 1970s, when 20 million people hit in the streets and eventually got Richard Nixon to sign a series of ambitious ... -
- Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009
ZNet Article Detailed accounts from participants in the recent Copenhagen climate summit are still coming in, but a few things are already quite clear, even as countries step up the blame game in response to the summit’s disappointing conclusion. -
- Saturday, Dec 05, 2009
Commentary On the eve of the UN’s long-awaited Copenhagen climate summit, officials are pulling out all the stops to spin the conference as a success, no matter what actually happens. -
- Tuesday, Sep 01, 2009
ZMag Article Climate politics and prospects in a crucial time frame -
- Thursday, Jul 02, 2009
Commentary A palpable sense of triumph accompanied the passage last week of a first-of-its-kind global warming bill in the US House of Representatives. Rep. Henry Waxman of California, one of the bill's two main sponsors, called it a "decisive and historic a... -
- Monday, May 18, 2009
ZNet Article A collectively drafted open letter from the Mobilization for Climate Justice, calling for major actions on the eve of this fall's global climate summit, and the 10th anniversary of the WTO shutdown in Seattle!
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- Wednesday, May 06, 2009
ZNet Article With all the debates and controversies that surrounded Murray Bookchin's many years of active political engagement, few commentators have addressed the lasting influence he had on the social and environmental movements of the past four decades. -
- Tuesday, Feb 24, 2009
ZNet Article A recent letter initiated by eleven US-based civil society groups highlights the rapidly growing literature demonstrating that biofuels/agrofuels are worsening climate change, driving deforestation, displacing rural smallholder farmers and indigen... -
- Monday, Feb 23, 2009
ZNet Article In the coming weeks, the Obama administration is expected to release its plans to address the dual problems of global climate disruption and excessive dependence on foreign oil. Meanwhile, in the background, the debate among environmentalists over... -
- Monday, Jan 21, 2008
Book Seven international authors show how the interplay of trade policy, “development” politics and biotechnology increases dependency and hunger, while compromising the survival of traditional farmers and their communities. Book Examines official, corporate-funded environmentalism and numerous grassroots alternatives. Traces the implications of the struggles of the 1990s for a renewed ecological movement in the 21st century. -
- Tuesday, Jan 01, 2008
ZMag Article If 2006 was the year that the “inconvenient truth” of global climate disruption made its way into the popular consciousness, then hopefully 2007’s revelations will result in more substantive and long-lasting changes. -
- Wednesday, Dec 19, 2007
ZNet Article With all the fanfare that usually accompanies such gatherings, delegates to the recent UN climate talks on the Indonesian island of Bali returned to their home countries declaring victory. Despite the continued obstructionism of the US delegation,... -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
Book The first book to fully explore the emergence of grassroots Green politics in the US, first published in 1987, and revised in 1992. Book 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. -
- Monday, Jan 01, 2007
ZMag Article 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... -
- Friday, Sep 01, 2006
ZMag Article 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... -
- Monday, Jul 31, 2006
ZNet Article 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... -
- Wednesday, Feb 15, 2006
ZNet Article 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... -
- Wednesday, Feb 01, 2006
ZMag Article 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... - All Most Recent Content
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Recent Books
New books!
 Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis & Social Change
From New Compass Press.
Available from AK Press and Amazon.com.
The outlook of Climate Justice offers a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate Justice, challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions, including the emergence of new nuclear and biofuel technologies. The book also dissects the events that shaped the diplomatic failure of the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit.
Agriculture & Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal
Co-edited with Fred Magdoff
From Monthly Review Press.
The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis, Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an exceptional collection of scholars from around the world to explore the politics of growing food insecurity and the rise of global resistance. International contributors include Walden Bello, Miguel Altieri, Peter Rosset, Christina Schiavoni and many others.
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- Tuesday, Mar 29, 2011
Book The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. Drawing on more than three decades of political engagement with energy and climate issues, Brian Tokar shows how the perspective of social ecology can point... -
- Monday, Dec 20, 2010
Book The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis, editors Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an exceptional collection of scholars... -
- Wednesday, Aug 11, 2010
Book Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate Justice, challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions, including the emergence of new nuclear and biofuel technologies, and dissects the events that shaped the diplom... -
- Monday, Jan 21, 2008
Book Seven international authors show how the interplay of trade policy, “development” politics and biotechnology increases dependency and hunger, while compromising the survival of traditional farmers and their communities. Book Examines official, corporate-funded environmentalism and numerous grassroots alternatives. Traces the implications of the struggles of the 1990s for a renewed ecological movement in the 21st century. -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
Book The first book to fully explore the emergence of grassroots Green politics in the US, first published in 1987, and revised in 1992. Book 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. - All Recent Books
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