David Takayoshi Suzuki

Interviewees in the doc include environmentalist David Suzuki and Dick's daughters. The film touches on Indigenous history in Canada and how Dick's masks are an important learning tool in an era of truth and reconciliation. After a hit feature of Dick's masks at last year's esteemed Documenta exhibition in ...

BURNABY, B.C. — The City of Burnaby is turning to Canada's highest court in the dispute over construction of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline. Mayor Derek Corrigan said Tuesday the city plans to ask the Supreme Court of Canada to consider a lower court decision that denied Burnaby leave to ...

The fossil-fuel era must end or it will spell humanity's end. The threat isn't just from pollution and accelerating climate change. Rapid, wasteful exploitation of these valuable resources has also led to a world choked in plastic. Almost all plastics are made from fossil fuels, often by the same companies that ...

Personal transportation choices can make a major difference. Driving SUVs and trucks when less-polluting options would serve as well or better is irresponsible. We owe it to ourselves and to the rest of the world to do better. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki ...

By David Suzuki. Many of us in Canada take water for granted, despite drinking water problems in First Nations communities — the subject of a recent column. World Water Day (March 22) ... needn't be the case. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation.

Personal transportation choices can make a major difference. Driving SUVs and trucks when less-polluting options would serve as well or better is irresponsible. We owe it to ourselves and to the rest of the world to do better. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author, and cofounder of the David Suzuki ...

David Suzuki — photo courtesy of Canada's Walk of Fame.David Suzuki's status as a towering environmental advocate and exceptional broadcaster are assured. But just in case anything else is needed to cement his peerless reputation — apart from his Companion of the Order of Canada status and 29 ...

On climate solutions. On renewable energy led by communities like Oxford County, Kanaka Bar and others rising to the challenge to create a regenerative economy for everyone. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from ...

Over the decades, a lot of people have walked alongside David Suzuki as Canada's favourite environmentalist led viewers on a journey of discovery on ... Thanks to that support, I've enjoyed a long, fascinating life as a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation,” Suzuki ...

Anishinaabe economist and writer Winona LaDuke identifies two types of economies, grounded in different ways of seeing. Speaking in Vancouver recently, she characterized one as an “extreme extractive economy” fed by exploitation of people and nature. The second is a “regenerative economy” based ...

At age 81, in his self-described “death zone,” Suzuki is forcefully advocating for a paradigm shift that is nothing short of revolutionary: political leaders drawn by lot, an empowered Senate of Canada, and a sustainable “doughnut economy.” On the sidelines of the David Suzuki Foundation's Charged Up ...

By David Suzuki. We base our arguments about environmental issues on sound research and evidence. Sometimes people challenge us — which is often ... “David Suzuki owns an island with an oil company! ... David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation.

For geneticist and activist David Suzuki, who features in Surviving Progress, considers conventional economics to be "a form of brain damage... so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive". He believes economics is a set of values that "try to use mathematical equations and all that ...

The pinnacle of PUBS 2018, perhaps, was the keynote lecture on Friday night by world-famous environmentalist David Suzuki, which attracted an audience of more than 400 students and science alumni. The PUBS organizing panel had invited Suzuki to speak about the challenges facing our planet and ...

Global research going back to 1824 in fields ranging through physics, oceanography, biology, and geology have confirmed that human activity—mainly burning fossil fuels, raising livestock, and destroying carbon sinks like forests and wetlands—is increasing greenhouse-gas emissions and causing global ...

Kenney also spent a good few tweets Friday having a go at David Suzuki. The United Conservative Party leader was highly unimpressed with the British Columbian environmentalist's take on Alberta's energy industry in Calgary. But he was even more galled with the fact a teacher's union paid $50,000 for ...

A David Suzuki Foundation report, Reconciling Promises and Reality: Clean Drinking Water for First Nations, finds the government failing on eight of 14 indicators developed to assess its progress. Lack of clean water in Indigenous communities is astonishing in a country where many of us take that for ...

At a minimum, Gurria should recognize the work of thinkers such as Canadian economist (and former David Suzuki Foundation board member) Peter Victor, who argue vital societal goals, such as full employment, can be achieved without growth. The lesson is not that the OECD still embraces some tenets ...

Brazil has flooded large swaths of the Amazon for hydro dams, despite opposition from Indigenous peoples, environmentalists and others. The country gets 70 percent of its electricity from hydropower. Brazil's government had plans to expand development, opening half the Amazon basin to hydro.

“David Suzuki owns an island with an oil company!” they write, among other absurdities—usually personal attacks that have nothing to do with the article under discussion. That tidbit is one of Levant's many false and misleading statements. Several people bought land on the island to protect it from ...