Annual fundraising dinner for the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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An Evening with David Suzuki
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A unique opportunity to hear from David Suzuki — a renowned Canadian leader, and an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster.
Join us for a wonderful evening of delicious Indian food, time to catch up with friends and colleagues, and inspiring ideas from Dr. Suzuki. His talk, The Challenge of the 21st Century: Setting the Bottom Line, will focus on the key environmental, social, and economic priorities that must set our bottom line if we are to build a sustainable and just future.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Fraserview Hall
8240 Fraser Street, Vancouver
Doors at 6PM, dinner served at 6:30PM
Indian buffet l cash bar l silent auction l raffle
Ticket options:
Individual tickets: $60
Patron table: $1,000
Group table: $480
To purchase tickets, or to find out about patron recognition, please contact Dianne Novlan at the CCPA, 604-801-5121 or ccpabc@policyalternatives.ca.
http://www.policyalternatives.ca
About David Suzuki
David Suzuki, Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation (http://www.davidsuzuki.org), is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. He is renowned for his radio and television programs that explain the complexities of the natural sciences in a compelling, easily understood way.
He is well known to millions as the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular science television series, The Nature of Things, and the creator of several other radio and television documentary programs.
An internationally respected geneticist, David was a full Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver from 1969 until his retirement in 2001. David has received numerous awards for his work, including a UNESCO prize for science, a United Nations Environment Program medal and the Order of Canada.
David was born in Vancouver, BC in 1936. During World War II, at the age of six, he was interned with his family in a camp in BC. After the war, he went to high school in London, Ontario. He graduated with Honours from Amherst College in 1958 and went on to earn his PhD in Zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961.
The author of more than 42 books, David Suzuki is recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology. He lives with his wife, Dr. Tara Cullis, and two children in Vancouver.
About the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social and economic justice. Our research offers policy solutions for the issues Canadians face, and shows that a more hopeful society is possible. In addition to publishing studies and analysis of current events, the CCPA provides regular media commentary, organizes public events, and responds to policy changes at the provincial and national levels.
The CCPA depends on individual members and donors for its core funding. http://www.policyalternatives.ca
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CCPA webpage: http://www.policyalternatives.ca
The CCPA is a non-partisan, non-profit public policy research institute, dedicated to social and economic justice. We produce and promote progressive research on a wide range of provincial and national policy issues.