Editing David Suzuki (section)

==Broadcasting career==

Suzuki began in television in 1970 with the weekly children's show ''Suzuki on Science''. In 1974, he founded the radio programme ''Quirks and Quarks'' which he also hosted on CBC Radio One from 1975 to 1979. Throughout the 1970s, he also hosted ''Science Magazine'', a weekly programme geared towards an adult audience.

Since 1979, Suzuki has hosted [http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/timeline.html "The Nature of Things"], a CBC television series that has aired in nearly fifty countries worldwide. In this program, Suzuki's aim is to stimulate interest in the natural world, to point out threats to human well-being and wildlife habitat, and to present alternatives for achieving a more sustainable society. Suzuki has been a prominent proponent of renewable energy sources and the soft energy path.

Suzuki was the host of the critically acclaimed 1993 PBS series [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE4DA163FF936A1575AC0A965958260 The Secret Life]. His 1985 hit series, ''A Planet for the Taking'', averaged more than 1.8 million viewers per episode and earned him a United Nations Environment Programme Medal. His perspective in this series is summed up in his statement: "We have both a sense of the importance of the wilderness and space in our culture and an attitude that it is limitless and therefore we needn't worry." He concludes with a call for a major "perceptual shift" in our relationship with nature and the wild. 

Suzuki's [http://www.sacredbalance.com/web/portal/index.php?singleid=151 Broadcast schedule of The Sacred Balance], a book first published in 1997 and later made into a five hour mini-series on Canadian public television, was broadcast in 2002.

Suzuki is now taking part in an advertisement campaign with the tagline "You have the power", promoting energy conservation through various household alternatives, such as the use of compact fluorescent lightbulbs.

For the Discovery Channel Suzuki also produced "Yellowstone to Yukon: The Wildlands Project" in 1997.  The conservation-biology based documentary focused on Dave Foreman's Wildlands Project, which  considers how to create corridors between and buffer-zones around large wilderness reserves as a means to preserve biological diversity.  This project Foreman developed after leaving Earth First! (which he co-founded) in 1989.  The conservation biologists Michael Soulé and Reed Noss were also directly involved.