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SUZUKI – Wildfires are a wake-up call about the reality of climate change

August 16, 2017 // 1 Comment

WILDFIRES ARE sweeping B.C. Close to 900 have burned through 600,000 hectares so far this year, blanketing western North America with smoke. Fighting them has cost more than [Continue]

SUZUKI – We only have one Earth, and we’re overshooting its capacity

August 9, 2017 // 3 Comments

AUGUST 2 was Earth Overshoot Day. Unlike Earth Day or Canada Day, it’s not a time to celebrate. As the Earth Overshoot Day website explains, it marks the time when “we [Continue]

SUZUKI – Environmental Protection Act review could strengthen human rights

August 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

GOVERNMENTS CHANGE — along with laws, regulations and priorities. It’s the nature of democracies. In Canada, we’ve seen environmental laws implemented, then weakened or [Continue]

SUZUKI – Local action is needed to resolve world’s biggest problems

July 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

HUMANS ARE are an astonishing anomaly. As many species teeter on extinction, our populations grow in size and complexity. From exploring space to eradicating diseases and [Continue]

SUZUKI – Plastic straws suck; get rid of them and help the environment

July 19, 2017 // 1 Comment

OF ALL THE plastic products we use and take for granted, plastic drinking straws are among the most unnecessary. Designed to be used once and discarded, their only real [Continue]

SUZUKI – Butterflyways blooming throughout the land

July 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

POLLINATOR pathway. Bumblebee highway. River of Flowers. Bee Line. These have all described habitat corridors created to help pollinators like bees and butterflies. We can [Continue]

SUZUKI – Nature offers the best defence against flooding

June 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

SPRING FLOODING in Canada this year upended lives, inundated city streets and swamped houses, prompting calls for sandbags, seawalls and dikes to save communities. Ontario [Continue]

SUZUKI – Bicycling never gets old

June 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

TWO HUNDRED years ago this month, an environmental and fuel crisis inspired one of our greatest inventions — a device so simple, efficient and useful that it’s turning [Continue]

SUZUKI – Donald Trump is a pariah in the face of climate-change crisis

June 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

IN WITHDRAWING from the Paris Agreement, U.S. President Donald Trump demonstrated monumental ignorance about climate change and the agreement itself. As Vox energy and [Continue]

SUZUKI – Protecting oceans is paying off, with some species rebounding

June 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

DO YOU REMEMBER Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak? It turns out wizards aren’t the only ones who can vanish from sight with a special coat. Marine researchers have [Continue]

SUZUKI – World Environment Day reminds us to reconnect with nature

May 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

THE NOTION that we must conquer or dominate nature has governed human behaviour for a relatively short period of our 150,000-year history on this 4.5-billion-year-old planet. [Continue]

SUZUKI – Oil and plastic are choking the planet

May 23, 2017 // 1 Comment

PEOPLE WHO deny that humans are wreaking havoc on the planet’s life-support systems astound me. When confronted with the obvious damage we’re doing to the biosphere — [Continue]

SUZUKI – Long work hours don’t work for people or the planet

May 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

IN 1926, U.S. automaker Henry Ford reduced his employees’ work week from six eight-hour days to five, with no pay cuts. It’s something workers and labour unions had been [Continue]

SUZUKI – Research sheds light on dark corner of B.C.’s oil and gas industry

May 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

WE’VE LONG KNOWN extracting oil and gas comes with negative consequences, and rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, increases the problems and adds new [Continue]