Brian Tokar is an activist and author, a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont, and board member of 350 Vermont and the Institute for Social Ecology. He is the author of The Green Alternative, Earth for Sale, and Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change. He is also the co-editor of Agriculture and Food in Crisis, Redesigning Life?, Gene Traders, and Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions. He holds an MA in biophysics from Harvard University.