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SUZUKI – As climate conference wraps up, we must all do our part

November 25, 2022 // 1 Comment

THE 27th ANNUAL Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change recently wrapped up, and the world continues to burn. Despite positive [Continue]

SUZUKI – Herman Daly saw economy, ecology and ethics as inseparable

November 9, 2022 // 2 Comments

OUR CONSUMERIST-CAPITALIST economic system was conceived relatively recently, albeit when conditions were far different than today. But we’re now so entrenched in it that [Continue]

SUZUKI – Water runs through the climate crisis

September 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

SOMETIMES there’s too much water; sometimes not enough. A major challenge with global heating is that it doesn’t necessarily cause more or less of something in a specific [Continue]

SUZUKI – We can’t look away from an overheating world

July 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

NEAR THE END of the film Don’t Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, astronomer Randall Mindy, turns to the people around him and says, “We really did have [Continue]

SUZUKI – For health habitats, leave it to beavers and other animal engineers

July 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

BEAVERS HAVE LONG BEEN considered nuisances. They knock down trees and block waterways, often flooding areas where humans live and gather. But recent moves to leave the [Continue]

SUZUKI – Despite record profits, oil industry greed is a bottomless pit

July 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

CANADA OFFERS some of the world’s most generous support for the fossil fuel industry, but industry executives want more. Even as they amass record profits, they’ve asked [Continue]

SUZUKI – Canada’s plastics ban is a good start but we need to go further

June 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

MOST OF US have seen images of sea turtles malformed by plastic six-pack rings, dead birds with stomachs full of debris, animals smothered by plastic bags… Our excessive [Continue]

SUZUKI – Report outlines Canada’s quick path to clean power

June 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

CANADA COULD BE a clean electricity powerhouse by 2035 — without building more large hydro dams or relying on expensive and sometimes unproven and dangerous technologies [Continue]

SUZUKI – Fueling a climate of uncertainty in a time of war

March 9, 2022 // 3 Comments

IT’S A TRAGIC TRUTH that some people are willing to inflict unfathomable suffering and death for the sake of power and wealth. From Russia’s aggression in Ukraine to [Continue]

SUZUKI – We’re not the individuals we believe ourselves to be

February 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

WE USUALLY THINK of ecosystems as landscapes outside ourselves. After all, aren’t we strikingly singular — unique in and for our thoughts, abilities and personalities? [Continue]

SUZUKI – Anthropocene means that we hold the key to our future

February 2, 2022 // 2 Comments

GEOLOGISTS HAVE CLASSIFED most epochs in Earth’s history according to fossils, radiometric dating and composition of the strata. The widely endorsed label for our current [Continue]

SUZUKI – If our stories set us apart, we need to create new ones

December 15, 2021 // 2 Comments

ACCORDING TO philosopher-historian Yuval Noah Harari, “Homo sapiens conquered this planet thanks above all to the unique human ability to create and spread fictions. [Continue]

SUZUKI – It will take more than electric cars to drive down emissions

November 17, 2021 // 1 Comment

RESOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS isn’t just about shifting from one technology to another; it’s about shifting our ways of thinking and being. It’s a point that often gets [Continue]

SUZUKI – Enough ‘blah, blah, blah’ – it’s time for real change on climate issue

November 3, 2021 // 1 Comment

WHAT’S THE BEST WAY to respond to a “code red”? Recent research is testing us on that. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “Climate Change 2021: The [Continue]