SolutionsClimate Justice and Community Renewal uniquely highlights the accounts of people who are directly engaged in local climate struggles and community renewal efforts, including on-the-ground land defenders, community organizers, leaders of international campaigns, agroecologists, activist-scholars, and many others. The book’s many contributors explore the impacts of extreme weather events in Africa, the Caribbean and on Pacific islands, experiences of life-long defenders of the land and forests in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and eastern Canada, and efforts to halt the expansion of fossil-fuel infrastructure from North America to South Africa. They also illustrate how a just transition toward a fossil-free economy can take shape, as they share efforts to protect water resources, better feed their communities, and implement new approaches to urban policy and energy democracy.
Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis & Social Change
From New Compass Press (2010, Revised edition 2014) Available from AK Press, iTunes, and Amazon.com.
The outlook of Climate Justice offers a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate Justice and explores the evolution of climate justice as an emerging movement. The book explores the evolution of climate policy through various UN summits and US legislation, and also challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions. The concluding chapters explore utopian vs. apocalyptic outlooks in the movement and the contributions of social ecology.
Stan Cox, a prolific author and research coordinator at the Land Institute in Kansas, recently reviewed Toward Climate Justice for the online journal, Green Social Thought.
Agriculture & Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal
Co-edited with Fred Magdoff From Monthly Review Press (2010)
The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis, Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an exceptional collection of scholars from around the world to explore the politics of growing food insecurity and the rise of global resistance. International contributors include Walden Bello, Miguel Altieri, Peter Rosset, Christina Schiavoni and many others.
Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade and the Globalization of Hunger
From Toward Freedom (2004)
Seven international authors show how the interplay of trade policy, “development” politics and biotechnology increases dependency and hunger, while compromising the survival of traditional farmers and their communities.
Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering
Zed Books (UK) and McGill-Queens University Press (Canada, 2001)
Twenty-six internationally respected critics offer their analysis of the issues, their social and ethical implications, and the stories behind the headlines that have brought genetic engineering to the forefront of public controversy worldwide.
Earth For Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash
South End Press, 1997
Examines official, corporate-funded environmentalism and numerous grassroots alternatives. Traces the implications of the struggles of the 1990s for a renewed ecological movement in the 21st century.
The Green Alternative: Creating an Ecological Future
R&E Miles/New Society Publishers, 1992
The first book to fully explore the emergence of grassroots Green politics in the US, first published in 1987, and revised in 1992.