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David Suzuki: Mounting climate evidence underscores the need to act
The scientific evidence is overwhelming: climate change is here, and unless we curb behaviours that contribute to it, it will get worse, putting our food, air, water and security at risk (Credit: NASA...
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David Suzuki: Yes, pipeline spills are good for the economy
Destroying the environment is bad for the planet and all the life it supports, including us. But it’s often good for business. (Credit: Maureen) By David Suzuki with contributions from Ian Hanington,...
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Pipeline approval flies in the face of democracy and global warming
Our choice is between ignoring overwhelming scientific evidence about the human contribution to climate change and pollution or changing our ways and reducing carbon emissions and fossil fuel...
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David Suzuki: Here’s to a radical Canada Day!
Canada is nature. And nature is life. We know this. (Credit: dr_tr) By David Suzuki with contributions from Ian Hanington, Senior Editor Oh, Canada, what will become of you? Although I’m proudly...
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David Suzuki: It’s time to save the bees and ban neonic pesticides
(Credit: Mike Warren via Flickr) By David Suzuki with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington. Bees may be small, but they play a big role in human health and survival....
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David Suzuki: Addressing global warming is an economic necessity
One Risky Business author, former Clinton treasury secretary Robert Rubin, also warned about the economic risks of relying on “stranded assets” — resources that must stay in the ground if we are to...
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David Suzuki: Lake Huron is no place for a nuclear waste dump
We can’t afford to add the risk of radioactive contamination to one of the world’s largest sources of fresh water. (Credit: Charles Dawley via Flickr) By David Suzuki with contributions from David...
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David Suzuki: Canada’s cities lead on climate action
Good transit and improved liveability have attracted people to Vancouver’s increasingly vibrant downtown core, lush green spaces and seaside pathways. (Credit: Kenny Louie via Flickr) By David Suzuki...
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David Suzuki: The Blue Dot Tour is about all of us
By David Suzuki with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington. A now-famous 1972 photo of Earth taken by Apollo 17 astronauts from 45,000 kilometres away became known as...
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David Suzuki: Global warming deniers get more desperate by the day
It’s time to shift attention from those who sow doubt and confusion, either out of ignorance or misanthropic greed, to those who want to address a real, serious problem. (Credit: Banksy via Flickr) By...
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David Suzuki: Of passenger pigeons and coal-mine canaries
(Credit: Ectopistes migratoriusAAP042CA” by Louis Agassiz Fuertes — Birds of New York (New York State Museum. Memoir) By David Suzuki with contributions from Ian Hanington, Senior Editor Passenger...
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David Suzuki: Prescription for health is to fight global warming
On September 21, more than half a million people are expected to gather in New York for the People’s Climate March. (Peter Blanchard via Flickr) By David Suzuki with contributions from David Suzuki...
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More bad news for bees: The new “F” word
(Credit: Rakib Hasan Sumon via Flickr) Have you heard of flupyradifurone? Probably not, unless you work for the federal government agency poised to approve this new pesticide for use in Canada. But...
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David Suzuki: The movement for environmental rights is building
More than 1,000 drinking-water advisories are in effect in Canada at any time, many of them in First Nations communities. (Credit: Toban B via Flickr) By David Suzuki with contributions from David...
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David Suzuki: IPCC report is clear and we must clean up our act
Germany, the world’s fourth-largest economy, now gets a third of its energy from renewable sources, and has reduced carbon emissions 23 per cent from 1990 levels and created 370,000 jobs. (Credit:...
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David Suzuki: Clean drinking water should be a human right in Canada
By David Suzuki with contributions from Michael Dan, a neurosurgeon, philanthropist and First Nations advocate who accompanied David Suzuki to Shoal Lake. Canada is among the world’s wealthiest...
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David Suzuki: Energy shift requires shift in conversation
The destruction of $65 billion worth of B.C. trees by mountain pine beetles — once kept under control by winters with temperatures below -30 C for a week or more — should make the province take notice...
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David Suzuki: Oil prices drop as global warming rises
(Credit: eckiblues via Flickr) By David Suzuki with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation’s Senior Editor Ian Hanington With oil prices plunging from more than $100 a barrel last summer to below...
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David Suzuki: Canada is trading away its environmental rights
By David Suzuki with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation’s Senior Editor Ian Hanington In 1997, Canada restricted import and transfer of the gasoline additive MMT because it was a suspected...
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David Suzuki: We have to stop filling and killing the oceans with plastic
(Credit: Kevin Krejci via Flickr) By David Suzuki with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation’s Senior Editor Ian Hanington Eight million tonnes. That’s how much plastic we’re tossing into the...
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