Biography

Award-winning broadcaster and bestselling author Gill Deacon is one of Canada’s best-known environmental advocates.

She is author of the national bestseller, Green For Life (Penguin, 2008), a guide to making sustainable living ‘the new normal’. Gill’s new book, due out from Penguin in early 2011, is a guide to chemical-free body care, being green from head to toe.

On television, Gill hosted CBC TV’s flagship daytime talk show, The Gill Deacon Show, and before that was host of @discovery.ca for five years on Discovery Channel Canada, and Discoveries This Week for Discovery Science Channel in the U.S.

Gill sits on the board of the Evergreen Foundation. She lives in Toronto with her husband and their three sons.