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As I approach my 73rd birthday, I’ve been thinking about my children and grandchildren and what lies ahead for them. We trumpet the enormous scientific advances and technological innovations of the 20th century, but is the world a better place than when I was born?

On Tuesday, the City of Toronto approved a plan to improve the quality of Toronto's beaches. In a 33-3 vote, the city restricted access to dogs on some beaches, and approved spending $1 million to place an underwater curtain off the shore of Sunnyside Beach to keep pollution away from swimmers.

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By David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Vol. 11, No. 6

The word sustainability gets bandied about a lot, but what does it mean? It means living within the productive capacity of the biosphere. We survive because our most fundamental needs – clean water, fresh air, soil, energy from the sun (through photosynthesis), and resources like trees, fish, and so on – can be replenished by nature as long as we don’t exceed its ability to replace them. Nonrenewable resources like metals must be used carefully and recycled because, no matter how plentiful they are, they will be depleted.

By David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Vol. 11, No. 5

We humans are air-breathing landlubbers, and that shapes the way we see and treat the world. We don’t think much about what’s underwater or underground. So we’ve been dumping garbage into the oceans and taking what we want from them for years without considering the consequences. We’ve never had to look at any of it – until now.

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The woman sometimes known affectionately as the "bird lady" of Mississauga died last week. Bernice Inman-Emery, who operated the Winding Lane Bird Sanctuary, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease over a year ago, and was living at Leisure World. She died on January 27, 2009.

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By David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Vol. 11, No. 4

Science has taken a beating over the past few years – especially in the U.S. and Canada. We’ve put up with incessant braying from climate change deniers who, in the words of Guardian writer George Monbiot, “ignore an entire canon of science, the statements of the world’s most eminent scientific institutions, and thousands of papers published in the foremost scientific journals” just so they can “pick up a crumb: a crumb which then disintegrates” in their palms.