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David Suzuki: Will Site C dam be Gordon Campbell’s legacy in Peace River country?

David Suzuki: Will Site C dam be Gordon Campbell’s legacy in Peace River country?

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | March 8, 2011
Campbell’s long tenure as premier was fraught with contradictions when it came to the environment.
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David Suzuki: Politicians who reject science are not fit to lead

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | March 1, 2011
Sometimes reading the news and listening to the pronouncements of politicians, especially south of the border, I’m bewildered by the rampant ignorance about science and the antipathy toward it.
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David Suzuki: If there is a war on cars, which side is winning?

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | February 22, 2011
We humans like our wars. We have a war on drugs, a war on terror, a war on crime, and now, it seems, a war on cars.
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David Suzuki: Teach your children how to be healthy by example

David Suzuki: Teach your children how to be healthy by example

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | February 15, 2011
Exercise is an important factor in reducing a number of our major health problems, from diabetes to stroke, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and cancer. Our bodies evolved to be active.
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David Suzuki: If a tree falls in the International Year of Forests, does anybody hear?

David Suzuki: If a tree falls in the International Year of Forests, does anybody hear?

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | February 9, 2011
It’s easy to be cynical about the annual declarations made by our world leaders. Nevertheless, the International Year of Forests marks a critical moment on our planet.
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David Suzuki: It will take more than rebranding to make tar sands oil “ethical”

David Suzuki: It will take more than rebranding to make tar sands oil “ethical”

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | February 1, 2011
Rather than subsidizing the tar sands and all the fossil fuel industry through massive tax breaks, we should be investing in energy technologies that will benefit our health, economy, and climate.
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David Suzuki: Struggling with salmon farming and sustainability

David Suzuki: Struggling with salmon farming and sustainability

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | January 25, 2011
The past few weeks have marked an interesting time for salmon and salmon farming in B.C.
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David Suzuki: Is there a cure for the bluefin tuna blues?

David Suzuki: Is there a cure for the bluefin tuna blues?

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | January 18, 2011
It would also be great if we could shift our thinking about economics to include the value of conservation and the services that ecosystems and plants and animals provide for us.
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David Suzuki: Mass animal die-offs and the ongoing extinction crisis

David Suzuki: Mass animal die-offs and the ongoing extinction crisis

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | January 11, 2011
We take notice when animals die in large numbers, but observations going back more than a century suggest that the mass-mortality events of recent weeks aren’t as unusual as we might think.
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David Suzuki: Rediscovering the sacred balance

David Suzuki: Rediscovering the sacred balance

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | January 4, 2011
We’ve come through the first decade of the 21st century, and it seemed appropriate to revisit a chapter marking the new millennium in my book, The Sacred Balance.
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David Suzuki: Everything is illuminated

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | December 14, 2010
December has traditionally been a time for people in the Northern Hemisphere to celebrate light.
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David Suzuki: Canada’s caribou crisis calls for collaboration

David Suzuki: Canada’s caribou crisis calls for collaboration

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | December 7, 2010
It isn’t every day that an international science summit brings together traditional Aboriginal knowledge and Western science. However, threats to a unique species call for a unique approach.
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David Suzuki: Leaders rally to keep the tiger’s future burning bright

David Suzuki: Leaders rally to keep the tiger’s future burning bright

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | November 30, 2010
Chinese zodiac aside, this hasn’t been a good year for the tiger.
David Suzuki: Senate’s “kill bill” move a blow to Canadians and democracy

David Suzuki: Senate’s “kill bill” move a blow to Canadians and democracy

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | November 23, 2010
The way the vote was carried out is an insult to Canadians and democracy.
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David Suzuki: We have much to learn from our elders

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | November 16, 2010
In today’s youth-obsessed world of rapid technological developments, we too often marginalize elders when their experience is most important.
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David Suzuki: Drilling in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is not worth the risk

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | November 9, 2010
We saw what happened when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Imagine a similar incident in an inland sea one-sixth the size of the Gulf of Mexico.
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David Suzuki: Day of the Dead is a time to celebrate life and monarch butterflies

David Suzuki: Day of the Dead is a time to celebrate life and monarch butterflies

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | November 2, 2010
Every autumn, tens of millions of monarch butterflies take wing in southern Ontario, embarking on a miraculous 3,000-kilometre, two-month journey.
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David Suzuki: Ozone agreement shows that progress is possible

David Suzuki: Ozone agreement shows that progress is possible

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | October 26, 2010
The Montreal Protocol shows that progress is possible, but we must listen to reason rather than the claims of those who put profits before people.
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David Suzuki: Making cities more livable may save the world

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | October 19, 2010
If we are to resolve some of the serious issues around pollution, climate change, human health, and energy consumption, we must look to cities for solutions.
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David Suzuki: Tiny sardines offer great guilt-free value

David Suzuki: Tiny sardines offer great guilt-free value

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | October 12, 2010
As long as harvests are tightly controlled, eating species lower on the food chain takes much less of the world’s ecosystem energy and is therefore more sustainable.
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David Suzuki: Shady practices are good when it comes to coffee

David Suzuki: Shady practices are good when it comes to coffee

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | October 5, 2010
The environmental costs associated with much of the coffee consumed worldwide is too high, according to many scientists who study the industry and its impacts.
David Suzuki: We need to protect the local farms, fields, and fisheries that feed us

David Suzuki: We need to protect the local farms, fields, and fisheries that feed us

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | September 28, 2010
No question about it, Canadians are embracing the idea of eating food produced closer to home, a sustainability movement that has been dubbed “locavorism”.
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David Suzuki: Fables from old times have meaning for our times

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | September 14, 2010
When wading through the words of pundits and the babble of political posturing, I can’t help but think of some of the simple truths we learned as children.
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David Suzuki: With Fraser River sockeye salmon, seeing red is cause for cautious celebration

David Suzuki: With Fraser River sockeye salmon, seeing red is cause for cautious celebration

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | September 7, 2010
Although seeing the rivers run red with salmon once again is cause for celebration, we can’t say this signals a reversal of the declines in Fraser River salmon populations that have been occurring over the past two decades.
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David Suzuki: Our obsession with private automobiles is unsustainable

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | August 31, 2010
Are we driving ourselves into oblivion? Or will new automobile technology save us from the environmental impact of the fossil-fuelled tanks we use to get around?
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David Suzuki: Biomimicry offers hope for sustainable future

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | August 24, 2010
Sometimes a new science emerges that not only offers hope for our continued survival as a species but that also makes obvious how little we have really learned in our relatively brief time on Earth.
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David Suzuki: Anti-environmentalists are stuck in the past

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | August 17, 2010
Environmentalists won’t be happy until we’re living in caves and scrounging for roots and berries. At least, that’s what I hear over and over again.
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David Suzuki: More drilling, more disasters, unless we all do our part

David Suzuki: More drilling, more disasters, unless we all do our part

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | August 10, 2010
The Gulf of Mexico disaster is just the latest in a long history of "accidents".
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David Suzuki: Declining phytoplankton another sign of climate catastrophe

David Suzuki: Declining phytoplankton another sign of climate catastrophe

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | August 3, 2010
It’s time we all started ignoring the insane blathering of the deniers. We’ve already wasted too much time on them—and we don’t have time to waste.
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David Suzuki: Climate change and water are inextricably linked

David Suzuki: Climate change and water are inextricably linked

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | July 27, 2010
We like to think we’re blessed with an abundance of clean water in Canada, but we really don’t have a much larger sustainable supply of water than most places.
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David Suzuki: Outdoor fun is good for kids and the planet

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | July 20, 2010
The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it, and we will only protect what we know and love.
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David Suzuki: Science delivers repeated blows to deluded climate change deniers

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | July 13, 2010
It must be difficult, if not downright embarrassing, to be a climate change denier these days.
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David Suzuki: Protecting the planet is a sacred and scientific duty

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | July 6, 2010
News about vanishing species, climate change, and loss of topsoil appears briefly, often buried in the B section of the newspaper, before vanishing.
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David Suzuki: What the beluga can teach us about ourselves

David Suzuki: What the beluga can teach us about ourselves

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | June 29, 2010
Belugas aren’t the only ones we’re harming with the way we treat our oceans.
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David Suzuki: Will we ever learn from our oily disasters?

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | June 22, 2010
Oil spills are just a visual reminder of the damage that our fossil-fuel addiction wreaks on the environment every day.
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David Suzuki: Species loss is a silent epidemic that threatens our planet

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | June 15, 2010
Unfortunately, the disappearance of plants and animals seems only to get the attention of politicians when it results in serious economic and social upheaval.
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David Suzuki: Our oil addiction has always been messy

David Suzuki: Our oil addiction has always been messy

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | June 8, 2010
The explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent uncontrolled release of millions of litres of oil a day is a monumental disaster. But why are we surprised?
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David Suzuki: Cruise ship industry needs better waste-control standards

David Suzuki: Cruise ship industry needs better waste-control standards

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | June 1, 2010
Although some cruise ship companies have made improvements in waste-water treatment, the industry still has a long way to go.
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David Suzuki: Canada’s Aboriginal people are the key to Boreal Agreement’s success

David Suzuki: Canada’s Aboriginal people are the key to Boreal Agreement’s success

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | May 25, 2010
Although forest companies have voluntarily put the imminent threat of further logging in caribou habitat on hold, Aboriginal people must work out the ultimate fate of the forest with provincial, territorial, and federal governments.
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David Suzuki: Driving home the benefits of staying active

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | May 18, 2010
Now, I know that a car is an amazing piece of technology, but it’s just a means of getting us from point A to point B. Do we ever stop to consider that this simple act works against what our bodies need?
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David Suzuki: What the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster tells us

David Suzuki: What the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster tells us

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | May 11, 2010
We’ve been assured many times that the technology is safe, but the Gulf disaster shows that no technology is foolproof. Can we really afford the risk?
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David Suzuki: Using smart growth to combat urban sprawl in Canada

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | May 4, 2010
Canada’s towns and cities are at a crossroads. Down one path is urban sprawl. In the other direction is ending sprawl using the principles of “smart growth".
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David Suzuki: Salmon farming may be a good idea after all

David Suzuki: Salmon farming may be a good idea after all

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | April 27, 2010
The industry still has a way to go before it can create a large supply of fresh salmon, but the fact that retailers are getting on board will help spur consumer demand and make the industry more viable.
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David Suzuki: Watching the Petitcodiac River flow once again

David Suzuki: Watching the Petitcodiac River flow once again

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | April 20, 2010
It’s been a long time since fish, people, and the tides have been able to travel freely along the whole length of the “river that bends like a bow”
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David Suzuki: Harmful chemicals can hide in cosmetics

David Suzuki: Harmful chemicals can hide in cosmetics

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | April 13, 2010
We don’t usually think of our cosmetics as a source of pollution. But U.S. researchers found that one eighth of the 82,000 ingredients used in personal-care products are industrial chemicals.
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David Suzuki: On the road to reduced fuel use

David Suzuki: On the road to reduced fuel use

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | April 6, 2010
Cars and trucks are among the biggest contributors to the heat-trapping emissions that cause global warming. That makes driving a good place to start in confronting one of the most serious challenges humans face.
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David Suzuki: It’s getting harder and harder to spot the spotted owl

David Suzuki: It’s getting harder and harder to spot the spotted owl

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | March 30, 2010
It doesn’t help that B.C. has no legislation to protect species at risk.
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David Suzuki: Technological fixes can have serious consequences

David Suzuki: Technological fixes can have serious consequences

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | March 23, 2010
We often look to technological fixes without acknowledging our ignorance about how the world works, and then we end up trying to correct the unexpected problems that result.
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David Suzuki: Brain over brawn is the key to human survival

David Suzuki: Brain over brawn is the key to human survival

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | March 16, 2010
Technology can provide great benefits, but unless we learn to use our heads in applying our technologies, we will also go the way of the dinosaurs.
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David Suzuki: Budget time offers a glimpse into the future, but how far?

By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola | March 9, 2010
This budget continues to pin our hopes, our future, and our economy on rapidly dwindling and highly polluting resources while much of the rest of the world creates jobs and new opportunities with green energy.
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