This ongoing archive of Georgia Straight articles includes issues such as climate, sustainability, environment and ecosystems, pollution and waste, ocean health and sealife, wildlife, endangered species and extinction, wildfires, and more.

Health Notes

Vancouver competes with Portland for worst air quality in the world

Sep 13

The regional district warns that fine particulate matter—consisting of airborne solid or liquid droplets with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less—can move indoors.

Commentary

John Horgan's LNG follies—what's a B.C. climate voter to do?

Sep 10

Prior to the pandemic, there was no shortage of climate protests in B.C.

Commentary

David Suzuki: Reduced resource consumption likely due to pandemic, not response to climate crisis

Sep 9

Although slowing population growth is important, we can’t resolve the climate crisis if we don’t reduce the amount of resources we consume.

Book Features

Vancouver author Seth Klein wants us all to wage A Good War to prevent a climate catastrophe

Sep 9

He says it's a life-and-death struggle.

Commentary

David Suzuki: Old oil and gas wells find new life with renewable energy

Sep 2

Ideally, most former oil and gas wells and related infrastructure would be returned as close to natural states as possible.

Books

Pollination expert and author Mark L. Winston named SFU Library's inaugural non-fiction writer in residence

Sep 1

SFU Library’s first non-fiction writer in residence will be one of the world’s top experts on bees and pollination.

Health Notes

Online index maps out impact of climate change on health across Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley

Aug 31

The map reveals how communities in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley are susceptible to the health impacts of climate change.

Commentary

David Suzuki: We are living in a plastic world

Aug 25

It is estimated that the world's oceans could hold more plastic by weight than fish by 2050.

Commentary

David Suzuki: True recovery means looking to the future, not the past

Aug 18

Pursuing a wasteful, endlessly growing consumerist fantasy has distanced us from our true natures and from the things that bring true joy.

Commentary

David Suzuki: Circular economy is too important to be co-opted by industry

Aug 11

It doesn’t make sense to destroy much-needed habitat for single-use products when alternatives can meet our needs.

Commentary

David Suzuki: Four-day workweek can spur necessary transformation

Aug 4

When we started the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990, we implemented a four-day, 34-hour workweek.

Commentary

David Suzuki: Language shapes our relationship with nature

Jul 29

Language should recognize and honour the myriad living and nonliving entities with which we share the planet.