VANITY FAIR NOMINATES SEVERN CULLIS-SUZUKI

HALL OF FAME

BECAUSE at the ripe age of 9 this Vancouver-born kid founded ECO (the Environmental Children's Organization), then, at 12, attended the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, an unprecedented U.N. conference addressing the fate of the world and its natural resources. BECAUSE her six-minute speech in Rio prompted a standing ovation, and even some tears, from the delegates, BECAUSE her devotion to making people aware of alternative energy sources recently led her and five friends to cycle across Canada (4,350 miles) in 10 weeks as her father, celebrated environmental broadcaster David Suzuki, followed them in a gas-electric-hybrid support car for one leg of the trip, BECAUSE at Yale, where she received a B.S. in evolutionary biology and ecology last May, she

drafted her "Recognition of Responsibility," a pledge that individuals can make toward sustainable living, which she debuted last August at the World Summit in Johannesburg as a member of U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan's advisory panel, BECAUSE an episode of Canadian TV's The Nature of Things, documenting her Johannesburg trip (and airing in several dozen countries this winter), shows how she and fellow members of her environmentally responsible Skyfish Project left the summit (disillusioned, in part, by the politicians' rhetoric: "I can't tell you how many conferences I've been to where they use Styrofoam cups!") to participate in local South African rallies, BECAUSE her zealous vocation to change the world is a true inspiration, BECAUSE her goal is, quite simply, to improve the planet.

DAISY HO

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