Canada?s best known environmentalist David Suzuki will visit Sudbury Nov. 4.
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David Suzuki |
The chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, Suzuki is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist, broadcaster and author. He books include A Sacred Balance and Good News for a Change.
He is well known to millions as the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular science television series, The Nature of Things.
On Nov. 4, Suzuki will attend a book signing at Sudbury?s Market Square, downtown from 11 am to 12:30 pm.
The White Cedar singers will assist in welcoming Suzuki to our city, by performing a tradition smudging and prayer ceremony.
Books will be on sale at the market, and can be purchased in advance at The Elm Tree, located at 61 Elm, St.
Tickets for a dinner event at the Green Teapot restaurant are sold out.
Suzuki will deliver a public lecture at Science North?s Inco Cavern at 7 pm. Books will be available for purchase, and some of the event?s sponsors and supporters will have information booths set up outside of the cavern.
His speech at Science North is titled the Challenge of the 21st Century- Setting the Real Bottomline.
There will be a question and answer period at the end of the speech. Tickets for this special engagement are available through Science North. Phone 523-4629.
Suzuki?s appearance in Sudbury is brought to you by The Green Teapot, Science North and the Sudbury & District Health Unit and supported by The Foodshed Project, Auto Trader, Greens+, INCO, MCTV, The Elm Tree, Citizens Advisory Group for Burwash and Downtown Sudbury.
Suzuki has received consistently high acclaim for his 30 years of award-winning work in broadcasting, explaining the complexities of science in a compelling, easily understood way.
Suzuki was born in Vancouver in 1936. In 1942, at the age of six, he was interned at a camp in British Columbia, where he spent the war years. After the Second World War, he grew up in London, Ont. He graduated from Amherst College in 1958 with a honours BA in Biology and Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago.
He was a research associate in the Biology Division of the Oak Ridge national lab (1961-62), assistant professor in Genetics at the University of Alberta (1962-63, and professor in zoology at University of British Columbia (1963-present).
He is currently in the SDRI (Sustainable Development Research Institute) at UBC.
He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Order of Canada.
He is the author of 28 books.
Suzuki is recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology and has received the Kalinga Prize for Science, the United Nations Environment Medal and the Global 500.
He lives with his wife and his children in Vancouver.
