[Peace] Brian Tokar at Unit One/Allen Hall 9/27-10/1

[Laura Haber]

Acclaimed environmental author and activist Brian Tokar will be a Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence Sunday, September 27 – Thursday, October 1. He will be speaking each evening of his residency. All events are free and open to the public and take place in the south rec room of Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory, Urbana.
 
Sunday, September 27
7:00pm - Opening Program
 
Monday, September 28
7:00pm - From Climate Awareness to Climate Justice - what does global warming mean for the most vulnerable people and ecosystems, and how can their needs better inform the ways we address the problem?
 
Tuesday, September 29
7:00pm – Global Warming: False Promises and Real Solutions - We will examine a range of common 'false solutions' to global warming--from carbon trading ('cap-and-trade') to biofuels and nuclear power--and discuss what a genuinely sustainable, low-carbon alternative might look like.
 
Wednesday, September 30
7:00pm - Who Controls Your Food?
 
Thursday, October 1
7:00pm - Social Ecology: A Vision for a Sustainable Society
 
About Brian Tokar:
Brian Tokar is acclaimed as a passionate advocate of grassroots action for global justice and an ecological future. He has been an activist, author, and prominent voice on environmental issues since the 1970s. He is the author of The Green Alternative and Earth for Sale, the editor of two books on the politics of biotechnology, Redesigning Life? and Gene Traders, and the co-editor of the forthcoming collection, Crisis in Food and Agriculture: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal. Tokar's articles on environmental issues, emerging ecological movements, global warming, and genetic engineering appear regularly in Z Magazine, Synthesis/Regeneration, Toward Freedom, Counterpunch.org and many other publications and websites. Tokar holds concurrent degrees from MIT in biology and physics, and a Masters degree in biophysics from Harvard University. He is the Director of Vermont's Institute for Social Ecology. He has lectured throughout the U.S., as well as
 internationally, on ecological issues and movements.
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