Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash [Hardcover]

Brian Tokar (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: South End Press (July 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896085589
• ISBN-13: 978-0896085589
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,917,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Brian Tokar has been an activist, author and a leading critical voice for ecological activism since the 1980s, and is currently the Director of the Institute for Social Ecology and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Green Alternative (1987, revised 1992) and Earth for Sale (1997), edited two books on the politics of biotechnology, Redesigning Life? and Gene Traders, and co-edited the collection, Crisis in Food and Agriculture: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal (Monthly Review Press, expected in November 2010). Brian received a Project Censored award for his investigative history of Monsanto Corporation (first published in The Ecologist) and is a founding member of the activist network Climate SOS (climatesos.org).

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5.0 out of 5 stars A book to explore like an ancient forest..., September 17, 2006

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This review is from: Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash (Paperback)

In "Earth for Sale", social ecologist Brian Tokar brilliantly exposes the co-opting of mainstream environmental organizations by corporate interests,then outlines alternative strategies and theories for preserving the earth. Activists involved in environmental justice campaigns, organic agriculture and/or forest issues will glean much wisdom from this intelligent book. Importantly, like Murray Bookchin, Brian Tokar does not pit labor against the trees, but instead offers a holistic vision of ecological and economic solidarity, thus healing the rupture between human communities and the land.