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Brian Tokar is an activist and author, Lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont, and a board and faculty member of the Institute for Social Ecology. He is the author of several books, including Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change (Revised edition, 2014). He is also an editor, with Tamra Gilbertson, of the 2020 collection, Climate Justice and Community Renewal. His articles on environmental issues and popular movements have appeared in web-based publications such as CommonDreams, Counterpunch, and ZNet, as well as in more than ten recent books.

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The Dialectic of Tech and Society

By Brian Tokar, Great Transition Initiative

Since the heyday of technological determinism in the 1960s, many authors have written eloquently about how developments in technology are more typically the outcome of particular social and economic arrangements.

  • February 28, 2022
Watermill in Belgium

On Technology’s Past and Future

By Brian Tokar, Local Futures

Since the heyday of technological determinism in the 1960s, many authors have written eloquently about how developments in technology are more typically the outcome of particular social and economic arrangements.

  • January 18, 2022
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Climate Justice and Movement Building: An Interview with Brian Tokar

By Adam Aron, Brian Tokar, Resilience.org

When we started organizing around climate justice back in the early period of 2006 to 2009 it was mostly just an idea. Now there are local groups and national scale groups all over the world that strongly identify with the mission of climate justice...

  • June 4, 2021
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ROAR Roundtable: COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis

By Kai Heron, John Bellamy Foster, Thea Riofrancos, Lavinia Steinfort, Giorgos Kallis, Max Ajl, Brian Tokar, Hilary Moore, ROAR Magazine

COVID-19 has forced a re-evaluation of nearly every aspect of how we fight for social and ecological justice. Yet, when it comes to the issue of climate change it can seem as if the virus has changed everything without changing anything at all.

  • June 25, 2020
Jackson MI mural

Think Globally, Act Locally?

By Brian Tokar, Great Transition Initiative

The odds may be diminishing with each passing year of climate inaction, but it is more necessary than ever to sustain a hope that humanity can unite to reject authoritarian false solutions to the climate crisis and social inequities, embrace the potential for an enhanced quality of life beyond fossil-fueled capitalism, and begin to realize the dream of a liberated and truly interdependent global community of communities.

  • August 20, 2019

Is the Paris Climate Conference Designed to Fail?

By Brian Tokar, Common Dreams

The last time this much public attention was focused on the climate talks was in the lead-up to the Copenhagen conference in 2009. We should not forget how that turned out.

  • November 12, 2015
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