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David Suzuki: Trees help cities tackle climate crisis and inequality
Glenn Sumi Environmental racism or discrimination can take many forms. It can mean building polluting factories or mines next to Indigenous communities, or “relocating” marginalized... -
David Suzuki: It’s time to extinguish oil and gas industry “gaslighting”
This summer, a Fortis BC booth at a Vancouver farmers market displayed the slogan, “Natural gas is good for your home.” Fortis and other fossil... -
David Suzuki: Everything matters in an interconnected world
Researchers only began to understand the “diel migration” a few decades ago. It’s “the largest routine migration of life on Earth,” Scientific American notes. Around... -
David Suzuki: Hot profits, hot temperatures and necessary solutions
dusanpetkovic / getty images As parts of the world reel under unprecedented heat, oil companies are raking in unprecedented profits. In the first three months... -
David Suzuki: Gaia theorist James Lovelock was always ahead of the times
Although most of the world knew James Lovelock as an “independent scientist” and originator of the Gaia hypothesis, he had a slightly different take. “I’m... -
David Suzuki: We can’t look away from our overheating world
Photo by Niko Tavernise/Netflix Near the end of the film Don’t Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, astronomer Randall Mindy, turns to the people around him... -
David Suzuki: For healthy habitats, leave it to the beavers – and other ecosystem engineers
Getty Images Beavers have long been considered nuisances. They knock down trees and block waterways, often flooding areas where humans live and gather. But recent... -
David Suzuki: Reducing methane is a quick climate solution
Clara Bastian/Getty Images One of the quickest, most cost-effective ways to slow global heating is to reduce methane emissions. That’s because, although methane is a... -
David Suzuki: Despite record profits and prices, oil industry greed is a bottomless pit
Kirill Gorshkov/Getty Images Canada offers some of the world’s most generous support for the fossil fuel industry, but industry executives want more. Even as they... -
David Suzuki: Canada’s plastic ban is a necessary first step
Getty Images Most of us have seen images of sea turtles malformed by plastic six-pack rings, dead birds with stomachs full of debris, animals smothered... -
David Suzuki: People suffer as climate disrupters rake in massive profits
dusanpetkovic / getty images The lineage of our human species has survived for several million years thanks to a wondrous, interconnected evolution of factors resulting... -
David Suzuki: Should we be working 15-hour weeks?
Getty Images The five-day workweek is an anachronistic relic of a time when conditions were far different than today. Back in 1930, renowned economist John... -
David Suzuki: A sunny outlook for energy on Canada’s windy Prairies
bluejayphoto / Getty Images A David Suzuki Foundation study found Canada’s Prairie provinces could be energy superpowers. It’s not because of their diminishing supplies of... -
David Suzuki: Groundbreaking report outlines Canada’s quick path to clean power
Getty Images Canada could be a clean electricity powerhouse by 2035 – without building more large hydro dams or relying on expensive and sometimes unproven... -
David Suzuki: Fossil gas isn’t natural, and it’s not a climate solution
Getty Images The fossil fuel industry has employed many strategies over the years to keep money flowing. It’s covered up its own science showing that...
