Driven to Action: Stopping Sprawl in Your Community

Sprawl consumes large quantities of land, segregates houses from shops and workplaces, depends on cars, and contributes to climate change.

Driven to Action is a new report from the Suzuki Foundation that looks at the consequences of sprawl and how to stop it. The report includes a user-friendly toolkit designed to help communities stop sprawl.

Bright Future: Avoiding Blackouts in Ontario

A new report from the David Suzuki Foundation shows energy conservation and efficiency measures are the fastest, cheapest ways to solve Ontario's electricity crisis and prevent future blackouts.

Released in Toronto in September 2003, the report includes a plan on how Ontario can cut its total demand for electric power by 20 per cent by 2010, close the province's coal plants, improve the reliability of the electricity system and save taxpayers money.

Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region

A comprehensive study released by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the David Suzuki Foundation in April 2003 shows that climate change is altering the character of the Great Lakes region.

Climate change presents challenges to the environment, the economy and the people of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes region is at risk of floods, drought and lower water levels as a result of climate change.
 

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A Citizen’s Guide to Air Pollution

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Published by the David Suzuki Foundation in August 2002, A Citizen’s Guide to Air Pollution is an authoritative collection of essays on air quality and air pollution.

Compiled by two leading experts in the field, Dr. David Bates and Dr. Robert Caton, A Citizen’s Guide is written primarily for policy makers and educators, but will also appeal to concerned citizens who want to have a greater understanding of air issues.

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Physicians’ Statement on Climate Change

The David Suzuki Foundation is working with leading Canadian physicians and health organizations concerned about the health impacts of air pollution and climate change.

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Together with groups such as Ontario College of Family Physicians, the Canadian Public Health Association, and the Montreal Department of Public Health, we have circulated a letter - the Physicians’ Statement on Climate Change - that calls on the Canadian government to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. To date, over 2000 individual physicians and 50 health organizations have added their signatures to the letter, sending a strong message to the government that climate change is a serious health issue.

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