The Green Alternative: Creating An Ecological Future

by Brian Tokar

Green political groups are sprouting up everywhere, the Green Party is qualifying in state after state, but most people remain puzzled. What does it mean to be "Green"? What do Greens believe? What do they do? This book provides the answers.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Environment

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Brian Tokar is an activist and author, Lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont, and a board member of 350Vermont 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 (Revised edition, 2014). He is an editor of the 2010 book, Agriculture and Food in Crisis (with Fred Magdoff), and also edited two collections on biotechnology and GMOs: Redesigning Life? and Gene Traders. Tokar is a contributor to the Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement, A Line in the Tar Sands, and other recent books. His articles on environmental issues and popular movements appear in Z Magazine and in web-based publications and sites such as CommonDreams, Counterpunch, ZNet, Popular Resistance, New Compass, Toward Freedom, and Green Social Thought. He has lectured across the US and internationally on social ecology and the links between environmental and social movements.

Reviews

[Maggie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is incredibly insightful and applicable, even for a 30-year-old publication. Though the specific facts and figures were dated, many of the big-picture ideas are still relevant in today's society. It would be interesting to see how many of the ideas and statistics would change in an updated version of the book.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting.