2007 SPONSIBLE AWARDS II

In continuing with our gala 2007 Sponsible Awards online festival, we would now like to present you with our second winner – this time in Environmental Concerns.

2007 Sponsible Award - Environmental Concerns
Winner: DAVID SUZUKI

While the folks over in Sweden decided to co-award their 2007 Peace Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore, we decided to go with a slightly lower-profile, yet equally sponsible, individual whose tireless campaign on behalf of Mother Earth has spanned the better part of four decades.

Dr. David Suzuki is a scholar very much in the vein of the late Stephen Jay Gould, popularizing sometimes esoteric scientific concepts by explaining them to his audience in layman's language with the flair of a performer. He's educated his native Canada and the world as to the dangers of irresponsible industrialization to the planet, most notably in the 1979 CBC series The Nature of Things, which brought widespread attention to his causes.

Dr. Suzuki has long been a voice in the call for self-imposed caps on carbon emissions worldwide and his David Suzuki offices themselves have a carbon-neutral footprint. This year, he made a cross-country tour in a diesel bus, speaking to Canadians about climate change and urging compliance with the Kyoto Accord.

His "David Suzuki's Nature Challenge"and "David Suzuki's Nature Challenge for Kids" suggest simple steps people can take to protect nature and improve their quality of life.

Sponsible.org salutes Dr. David Suzuki on his invaluable mission and we urge you to check out http://davidsuzuki.org to learn simple ways in which you can reduce your own carbon footprint and help create action on an even larger scale.