Editing David Suzuki (section)

==Broadcasting career==
[[File:David Suzuki.jpg|thumb|upright|Suzuki in 2006]]

Suzuki began in television on January 10, 1971 with the weekly children's show ''[[Suzuki on Science]]''. In 1974, he founded the radio program ''[[Quirks&nbsp;& Quarks]]'', which he also hosted on CBC AM radio (the forerunner of [[CBC Radio One]]) from 1975 to 1979. Throughout the 1970s, he also hosted ''[[Science Magazine (TV series)|Science Magazine]]'', a weekly program geared towards an adult audience.

From 1979 to 2023, Suzuki hosted ''[[The Nature of Things]]'', a CBC television series that has aired in nearly fifty countries worldwide.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/timeline.html |title=CBC website on Nature of Things |website=CBC.ca |date=2007-05-18 |access-date=2011-02-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100806065530/http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/timeline.html |archive-date=August 6, 2010 }}</ref> 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 to humanity for achieving a more [[Sustainability|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 ''The Secret of Life''.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE4DA163FF936A1575AC0A965958260 Review of ''The Secret of Life'' 25 September 1993 New York Times]. Retrieved 21 July 2008.</ref> 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 ''[[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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sacredbalance.com/web/portal/index.php?singleid=151 |title=Broadcast schedule of The Sacred Balance |website=SacredBalance.com |access-date=2011-02-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100907070138/http://www.sacredbalance.com/web/portal/index.php?singleid=151 |archive-date=2010-09-07 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sacredbalance.com/web/peopleresults.html?command=search&db=data/people.db&lastnamesort=1&firstnamesort=2&woroledatarq=production&mytitle=Production |title=Production Team of The Sacred Balance |website=SacredBalance.com |date=2002-10-13 |access-date=2011-02-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100907070133/http://www.sacredbalance.com/web/peopleresults.html?command=search&db=data%2Fpeople.db&lastnamesort=1&firstnamesort=2&woroledatarq=production&mytitle=production |archive-date=2010-09-07 }}</ref> 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 lamp|compact fluorescent lightbulb]]s.

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. Foreman developed this project after leaving Earth First! (which he co-founded) in 1990. The conservation biologists [[Michael Soulé]] and [[Reed Noss]] were also directly involved.

In October 2022, Suzuki announced his retirement from ''The Nature of Things'' series in spring 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Suzuki is retiring from The Nature of Things to focus on activism and calling out 'BS' |url=https://ca.news.yahoo.com/david-suzuki-announces-retirement-nature-010100469.html |access-date=2023-01-02 |website=ca.news.yahoo.com |date=24 October 2022 |language=en-CA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=CBC's 'The Nature of Things' Names Sarika Cullis-Suzuki and Anthony Morgan as New Hosts (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cbc-nature-things-names-sarika-161500735.html |access-date=2023-01-02 |website=www.yahoo.com |date=30 November 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref>