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BLUE WATER AWARDS

2024 Global Guardian Award - Maude Barlow

Blue Water Film Festival (BWFF) presented by the Blue Water Institute announces its honorees to Maude Barlow with the Global Guardian Award.  The Global Guardian Award is presented to an industry leader whose contributions to the innovation of marine science & entertainment has changed the industry for the better.

Maude Barlow is a Canadian activist and author. She chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch and Ottawa-based Blue Planet Project. Maude co-founded the Council of Canadians and chaired its board for over three decades. She serves on the Board of Advisors of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and is a Councillor with the Hamburg- based World Future Council. Maude is the Chancellor of Brescia University College in London Ontario.

Maude is the recipient of sixteen 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 Envi- ronment 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).

Maude is also the author of dozens of reports, as well as 20 books, including Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse and Canada’s Water Crisis; Whose Water is it Anyway? Taking Water Protection Into Public Hands; and her new book, Still Hopeful, Lessons From a Lifetime of Activism.

The 2024 Blue Water Awards was presented Sunday, March 24th at UCSD Park & Market Street. 

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