David Suzuki

Do you want to be happier, healthier and smarter? I have just the prescription for you: Add a daily dose of nature to your routine.

Over the past decade, researchers from fields as diverse as biology, psychiatry, engineering, horticulture, neuroscience and medicine have realized what most of us know intuitively:...

L'environnementalisme a échoué. Au cours des 50 dernières années, les environnementalistes ont réussi à sensibiliser les gens, changer les pratiques d'exploitation forestière, arrêter les méga-barrages, les forages en mer et réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Mais nous étions si concentrés à nous battre contre nos opposants...

Bats are fascinating creatures, and they're more important than many people realize. A bat can eat more than 1,000 insects in an hour -- up to 6,000 a night. Some bats consume bugs that attack agricultural crops and some feast on pests like gnats and mosquitoes. The 25-million...

Canada would be a different place without our 80,000 registered charities dedicated to everything from health to economic policy to the environment. We'd be much poorer without the two-million employees, and millions of volunteers who devote their time to causes that strengthen our nation.

Recent efforts by the federal government,...

Environmentalism has failed. Over the past 50 years, environmentalists have succeeded in raising awareness, changing logging practices, stopping mega-dams and offshore drilling, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But we were so focused on battling opponents, and seeking public support that we failed to realize these battles reflect fundamentally different ways...

Si le gouvernement fédéral avait proposé des changements aux processus d'évaluation et de règlementation environnementales permettant d'augmenter leur efficacité, sans nuire à leur applicabilité, peu de gens s'y seraient opposés. Malheureusement, ce n'est pas le cas. Non seulement les changements annoncés faciliteront, autant pour le gouvernement que pour l'industrie, la...

Few people would argue against making environmental review processes and regulations more efficient -- as long as they're effective. But changes announced in the recent federal budget don't do that. Instead, they make it easier for the federal government and industry to push through projects that could harm the environment...

A colleague told me that his toddler was wandering through a neighbourhood park picking up twigs and sticks, brandishing them as tools for digging, poking, and tapping. Suddenly the boy stopped and pointed excitedly to the canopy of branches above. "Look papa! Sticks come from trees!"

Mentally reconnecting fallen...

Chers amis,

Certains parmi vous ont eu vent par les médias de ma décision de m'écarter du Conseil d'administration de la Fondation David Suzuki. Je vous écris pour vous expliquer de quoi il retourne.

Après mes enfants et mes petits-enfants, ma plus grande source de fierté est la Fondation David...

Nous, les Canadiens et Canadiennes, aimons la nature et les grands espaces. Que l'on parle à ceux qui visitent notre pays ou aux gens que nous rencontrons en voyage, nos conversations finissent presque toujours par aborder le thème de nos grands espaces naturels et de nos territoires vierges. Notre souci...

We Canadians love the wilderness. Whether we're talking to visitors here or people we meet in our travels, our conversations almost always end up about our great outdoors and pristine natural spaces. Caring about the environment is one of the ways we define ourselves.

But how good are we at...

Bottom-trawl fisheries --
which involves dragging large nets along the ocean floor, disrupting everything in their path, including corals and other marine habitats -- are often criticized for their environmental impact. I've been among the vocal critics. But now, thanks to growing consumer demand for sustainable seafood...

Is the world getting nuttier? Looking at recent events in North America, it's hard not to conclude that humanity is taking a crazy step backwards. I recall a time when science and scientists were taken seriously, but lately they've been getting knocked around, especially in Canada and the U.S.

Cesser complètement de consommer du pétrole? Demain n'est pas la veille! Mais cela ne veut pas dire que nous devons continuer d'agir comme si de rien n'était.

Au Canada, « agir comme si de rien n'était » signifie augmenter de façon fulgurante l'exploitation des sables bitumineux et en vendre le...

More than anything else, coal fueled the Industrial Revolution. It was, and still is, plentiful and cheap. It's also always been relatively easy to get at, especially if you don't mind sending kids into mines, endangering the lives of miners, or blasting the tops off mountains.

Coal is an 18th-century...

Qui influence le Canada au sujet de la priorité qu'il accorde à ses ressources naturelles? Dans un troublant appel au sentiment anti-américain, certains partisans de l'industrie prétendent que des intérêts américains menacent la politique canadienne par le biais de dons à des groupes environnementaux d'ici. Ces arguments ont été soulevés...

Cities cover just two per cent of the world's land area, yet they account for about 70 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. According to the United Nations, 59 per cent of us now live in cities; in developing countries, 81 per cent of people are urbanites. And...

Cela fait maintenant plus de 20 ans que l'industrie de la pêche à la morue sur la côte Atlantique s'est effondrée et aucun objectif de repeuplement n'a été mis en place, ni de délai afin de rétablir les populations. Ce n'est que l'un des nombreux éléments relevés par d'éminents scientifiques...

Let's suppose the world's legitimate scientific institutions, academies, climate scientists, and most of the world's governments are wrong.

Maybe, as some people have argued, they're involved in a massive conspiracy to impose a socialist world order. Maybe the money's just too damn good. It doesn't matter. Let's...

C'est un fait, les enfants posent beaucoup de questions. Parfois, les adultes se sentent incompétents s'ils ne peuvent y répondre sur-le-champ. Dès le début de ma carrière d'enseignant, j'ai appris qu'il n'y a rien de mal à dire : « Je ne sais pas ». Enseigner aux enfants comment apprendre...