It’s Always Too Soon to Go Home: Doing the Work of Fundraising, Campaigning and Advocacy
Channel: Elijah van der Giessen
Date: 2017-09-29

Maude Barlow
Council of Canadians
Honorary Chairperson
Ottawa
Maude Barlow is the Honorary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch. She serves on  the executive of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and is a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council.

 Maude is the recipient of fourteen honorary doctorates as well as many awards, including the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the “Alternative Nobel”), the 2005 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Fellowship Award, the Citation of Lifetime Achievement at the 2008 Canadian Environment

Awards, the 2009 Earth Day Canada Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award, the 2009 Planet in Focus Eco Hero Award, and the 2011 EarthCare Award, the highest international honour of the Sierra Club (US).

 In 2008/2009, she served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President ofthe United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN. She is also the author of dozens of reports, as well as 18 books, including her latest, Blue Future: Protecting Water For People And The Planet Forever and Boiling Point, Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse and Canada’s Water Crisis.