An evening with David Suzuki in Calgary, Blue Dot - Oct 30, 2014

An evening with David Suzuki in Calgary, Blue Dot - Oct 30, 2014

A limited number of VIP tickets are still available.

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'Gross National Happiness' - David Suzuki & Dasho Kinley Dorji

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David Suzuki signing books at the 'Gross National Happiness' event

We attended a special event earlier this month at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. 

David Suzuki and Dasho Kinley Dorji discussed the Bhutanese concept of 'Gross National Happiness' . 

Here is a short clip from that event. 



What is "Gross National Happiness" explained in 3 min 

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Leaving Banff, approaching Canmore

David Suzuki and Dasho Kinley Dorji: Happiness Bhutan to Banff (Simulcast) and Films - Nov 01, 2012

David Suzuki and Dasho Kinley Dorji: Happiness Bhutan to Banff (Simulcast) and Films

Thursday November 1, 2012 - 7:30 p.m. 
Margaret Greenham Theatre
$32

There are still a limited number of tickets available for this event, which includes the Canadian Premier of Watershed Movie.

"David Suzuki is bringing a message from the mountains fro the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival.  The eminent environmentalist will be speaking on Thursday Nov 01 with Dasho Kinley Dorji, secretary of information and communications for the mountain kingdom of Bhutan, on the subject of Gross National Happiness, an alternative way to measure progress and development.  The Bhutanese have it down: despite an average in come of around $110 USD per month, in 2006 Business Week named their country the eighth-happiest nation in the world." - Swerve Magazine, Calgary.

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Environmental Rules Should Be Better, Not Easier

Environmental Rules Should Be Better, Not Easier

David Suzuki

April 25 2012

Ecowatch

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 and the economy, and limit the ability of ordinary Canadian citizens to have a say in matters of national importance.

Based on the budget announcement you’d think delays and duplication in the environmental review process are the biggest issues. They’re not. As the Pembina Institute points out, the equivalent of one major oil sands mine has been approved in each of the past five years, and the pace is increasing. Some people, including former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed, suggest we’d benefit by slowing down—for economic and environmental reasons. When there are setbacks in the review process, they’re often caused by industry’s reluctance to provide timely data or by a lack of capacity within the government itself. The latter is getting worse as funding for basic monitoring and enforcement is subject to further cuts.

Eliminating environmental reviews for some projects altogether, shifting responsibility to the provinces, and severely cutting back on staff and agencies that provide management and information are not ways to make processes more efficient; they’re ways to accelerate approval of major projects, making the short-term interests of industry a higher priority than protecting the air, land, and water we all need to stay healthy.