SUZUKI – For climate’s sake, we must do more to save the peat
BURNING COAL, oil and gas is causing the world to heat at an unnaturally rapid rate. Destroying forests, wetlands, grasslands and marine ecosystems, which act as “carbon [Continue]
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SUZUKI – Sun rises on renewable energy and storage
ONE LONG-HELD EXCUSE for not getting off oil, gas and coal faster is that energy sources like solar and wind only work when the sun’s shining or the wind’s blowing. Now, [Continue]
SUZUKI – Food systems are a big part of resolving the climate crisis
WE ALL HAVE TO EAT. But the ways in which we grow, harvest, process, transport, prepare and consume food are profoundly affecting everything on the planet, from climate to [Continue]
SUZUKI – Connecting to nature is good for us and the Earth; save a butterfly
THE LATE URBAN VISIONARY Jane Jacobs wrote, “Perhaps it will be the city that reawakens our understanding and appreciation of nature, in all its teeming, unpredictable [Continue]
SUZUKI – Net zero offers affordable path to climate stability
ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER RECORD. Even with a global seven per cent drop in fossil fuel burning during the pandemic, 2020 tied 2016 for the hottest year recorded, making the past [Continue]
SUZUKI – Rediscovering our place in nature
The following is adapted from The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (Greystone Books), a book I wrote with Amanda McConnell in 1997 and updated in 2007. It [Continue]
SUZUKI – As a bad year ends, we have the power to create a brighter future
THIS IS OUR LAST column for 2020. What a year it’s been! As if things weren’t bad enough on the environmental front — record-breaking global temperature increases, the [Continue]
SUZUKI – It’s time for Canada to address environmental racism
IN CANADA, we’re quick to favourably compare ourselves to our southern neighbours. COVID-19 caseloads may be at an all-time high here, but the U.S. situation is even more [Continue]
SUZUKI – Rediscovering the fundamentals of life
THROUGHOUT CANADA and around the world, the second wave of COVID-19 is hitting hard. Over the next few months, governments will remain focused on addressing the largest [Continue]
SUZUKI – U.S. election shows need to bend the arc toward justice
AFTER FINISHING HIGH SCHOOL in Ontario in the 1950s, I was awarded a scholarship from Amherst College in Massachusetts. After completing my undergraduate degree, I received [Continue]
SUZUKI – What do we lose when the caribou herds disappear?
ONE CARIBOU HERD in Jasper National Park is gone. The two remaining are on the brink. Regrettably, the story is not particularly new; almost every caribou herd in Canada has [Continue]
SUZUKI – Decolonization requires action and new ways of seeing
THROUGHOUT THE COVID-19 pandemic, most of us have been living in a landscape defined by unknowns. This lack of certainty about how the world around us can change at any [Continue]
SUZUKI – Four-day workweek can spur necessary transformation
WHEN WE STARTED the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990, we implemented a four-day, 34-hour workweek. Staff consistently say it’s made their lives better, giving them time to [Continue]
SUZUKI – Coal power should be relegated to the ash heap of history
DURING AND AFTER his 2016 campaign, the current U.S. president promised to make coal great again. He also claimed climate change was a hoax, so it’s no surprise that he’d [Continue]
