Maude Barlow Is a Tyee Builder

"I support The Tyee because it tells the stories we need to read and that mainstream media has given up on. What else hooks me? My four gorgeous grandkids." -- Maude Barlow

It doesn't come as a surprise that Barlow has youngsters on her mind: she has spent her career campaigning to keep the world in the best shape possible for future generations. She has written bestselling books, earned numerous degrees, been awarded myriad accolades (including the "Alternative Nobel Prize," Sweden's Right Livelihood Award), and is the head of the Council of Canadians, the largest public advocacy organization in the country.

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About this Tyee Builder: Maude Barlow has simply done too many notable things to mention them all here. She has been called "Canada's best-known voice of dissent" by the CBC. Barlow is the National Chairperson for the Council of Canadians, a group which works "to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians"; she is also the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, the chair of Washington-based Food and Water Watch, and a founding member of the San Francisco-based International Forum on Globalization.

Barlow has been awarded 11 honourary degrees and dozens of prestigious awards. Of the 16 books she's written (in all her spare time), The Tyee's favourite is Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water an issue that -- as a free-swimming salmon -- is close to our cold-blooded little heart. For more about Maude Barlow's causes and achievements, visit the Council of Canadians website.

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