Holly Dressel
Holly Dressel is best known as the co-author of two best-selling books with Dr. David Suzuki, Good News for a Change and From Naked Ape to Super-species, and for her award-winning programs for Suzuki's The Nature of Things. Interviewing people in Third World huts and luxury hotel suites, or getting caught out on the ice during break-up in the Arctic has become a way of life for Dressel in her pursuit of stories about the interface between human culture and the environment.
Her programs for The Nature of Things include an award-winning special on the threats of massive dam building in northern Quebec, "The Wind That Keeps On Blowing," as well as "Trouble in the Forest," a film about acid rain that was instrumental in obtaining stricter air quality standards in North America.
She also is known for her stockshot and picture research for film, which gained her a nomination for a Gemini. Dressel is still able to read four dead languages (Old English, Gothic and two forms of Old French, including Provencal) and retains her early interest in the history of architecture and landscape. Her current book, Who Killed the Queen? The Story of a Community Hospital and How to Save Healthcare includes an analysis of the history and direction of the entire Canadian health system, from wait times to methods of payment and super-hospitals, and promises to raise the temperature of health care controversy when it is released in May of 2008. She is working on her next publication, due out in 2011.
Client Testimonials:
"Her presentations are always thought-provoking, laced with meaningful example and anecdote. Her style is engaging and challenging, but never at a level of abstraction that leaves the listener behind. She is blessedly free of power point and jargon. She tells the truth and awakens the listener."
Leader, Green Party of Canada
Holly Dressel is best known as the co-author of two best-selling books with Dr. David Suzuki, Good News for a Change and From Naked Ape to Super-species, and for her award-winning programs for Suzuki's The Nature of Things. Interviewing people in Third World huts and luxury hotel suites, or getting caught out on the ice during break-up in the Arctic has become a way of life for Dressel in her pursuit of stories about the interface between human culture and the environment.
Her programs for The Nature of Things include an award-winning special on the threats of massive dam building in northern Quebec, "The Wind That Keeps On Blowing," as well as "Trouble in the Forest," a film about acid rain that was instrumental in obtaining stricter air quality standards in North America.
She also is known for her stockshot and picture research for film, which gained her a nomination for a Gemini. Dressel is still able to read four dead languages (Old English, Gothic and two forms of Old French, including Provencal) and retains her early interest in the history of architecture and landscape. Her current book, Who Killed the Queen? The Story of a Community Hospital and How to Save Healthcare includes an analysis of the history and direction of the entire Canadian health system, from wait times to methods of payment and super-hospitals, and promises to raise the temperature of health care controversy when it is released in May of 2008. She is working on her next publication, due out in 2011.
Client Testimonials:
"Her presentations are always thought-provoking, laced with meaningful example and anecdote. Her style is engaging and challenging, but never at a level of abstraction that leaves the listener behind. She is blessedly free of power point and jargon. She tells the truth and awakens the listener."
Leader, Green Party of Canada
