An activist who is known as “the Ralph Nadar of Canada,” Maude Barlow is the best-selling author of 16 books, including the recently released Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. She is the Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly as well as Chair of the Board of the Washington-based Food and Water Watch. Maude founded and is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and is also a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. She is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates as well as many awards, including the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the “Alternative Nobel”), and the 2008 Canadian Environment Award.

Past Events

• Rising Waters in a Thirsty World

  2009 Festival

  Join the world’s foremost adaptation experts as they survey threatened regions of the planet, including New York City, and suggest strategies for changing our strained relationship with H2O.

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