Questioning Official Environmentalism
This article orignially appeared in Z Magazine, April 1997. Seven years ago in these pages, we launched an in-depth investigation of the mainstream environmental movement. The occasion was the widely …
The Nader for President Fiasco
This article originally appeared in Z Magazine, November 1996. During the spring and summer of 1996, I spent considerable time following and supporting the Green Party’s effort to run Ralph …
Campaigning Against Dioxin
This article originally appeared in Z Magazine, May 1996, and reprinted in Garbage and Waste: Current Controversies, San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1997. In even the briefest of visits, it is …
Trading away the Earth: Pollution Credits and the Perils of “Free Market Environmentalism”
This article originally appeared in Dollars and Sense, March/April 1996, and was reprinted in Theodore Goldfarb, ed., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues, Eighth Edition, Dushkin/McGraw Hill, 1999. The …
Biotechnology: Consumer Beware
This article originally appeared in Food & Water Journal, Spring 1996, and reprinted in Third World Resurgence (Penang, Malaysia), Number 79, March 1997. The floodgates are opening this year for …
Biotechnology vs. Biodiversity
This article was originally published in Wild Earth, spring 1996. Recent campaigns by food safety activists have raised a new level of public awareness about the risks of biotechnology. Products …
Biotechnology
This article originally appeared in Z Magazine, June 1995, and reprinted in Third World Resurgence, Number 63, November 1995. For many years, public debates around biotechnology and genetic engineering were …
Grassroots Victories, Lobbyist Gridlock
This article originally appeared in Z Magazine, February 1995. On an unusually balmy November morning, eco-activists in the northeast awoke to some long-awaited but entirely unexpected news. In the immediate …
The Clinton Forest Plan
This article orignially appeared in Z Magazine, April 1994. After nearly a year of back room deals, political arm-twisting and viciously polarized debate, the Clinton administration has released the final …
The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? Reviewed by Brian Tokar
This book review was published in Tikkun Magazine, Jan.-Feb. 2003. This past August, civil society representatives, public officials and heads of state from around the world converged on Johannesburg for …