Brian Tokar is a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. Since the 1980s he is an activist, author and well-known critical voice for ecological activism. He serves on the board of 350-Vermont, and is currently the Director of the Institute for Social Ecology. Tokar has lectured throughout the U.S., as well as internationally, and is acclaimed as an advocate of grassroots action for ecological sanity and global justice. He received a Project Censored award for his investigative history of Monsanto, originally published in The Ecologist, and he has contributed to "The Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement," "A Line in the Tar Sands," and other recent books.