Maude Victoria Barlow is an author and activist. She is a founding member and former board chair of the Council of Canadians, a citizens’ advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada. She is also the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works internationally for the human right to water. Barlow chairs the board of Washington-based Food & Water Watch, serves on the Board of Advisors to the Global Alliance on the Rights of Nature, was a founding member of the San Francisco–based International Forum on Globalization, and was a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. She is the Chancellor of Brescia University College at Western University. In 2008/2009, was Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly.
She has authored and co-authored 20 books, including Whose Water is it Anyway? Taking water protection into public hands and Still Hopeful, Lessons From a Lifetime of Activism.
- The Council of Canadians – Maude Barlow
- Blue Planet Project
- Maude Barlow Interview with Jeff Fleischer of Mother Jones
- Maude Barlow on the Need for Water Justice – video report by Democracy Now!
- Video: Maude Barlow: “The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History”
- Video: Maude Barlow: “The Continued Destruction of the Earth Can Go on Quite Happily”
- Right Livelihood Award
- Huffington Post (Canada) – Maude Barlow
- Watch Democracy à la Maude at NFB.ca
- For the Love of Water, 2008
- Water on the Table, 2010
Catherine Bush is the author of five novels, including the climate themed Blaze Island (2020). She has written and spoken internationally about addressing the climate crisis in fiction and brings climate issues into her creative writing pedagogy. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Guelph and an Affiliate Member of the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research.
Angela Davidson, also known as “Rainbow Eyes”. Angela is a member of the Da’naxda’xw/Awaetlala First Nation. Angela works as a Land Guardian and is Deputy Leader of the Green Party. She states “As well the important piece of facing the colonial courts in Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience. Braiding Nartual/Indigenous Laws with colonial Laws, she is seeing 1st hand how the system is in total denial of accepting UNDRIP as Indigenous Land”. Her organization is: https://www.dzunukwasociety.com
Lisa Mintz has been part of many Important undertakings to save greenspaces in Montreal. Most notably, she is a co founder of-Sauvons la Falaise! This group has worked very hard to create the 7th grand parc on the Island of Montreal, grand parc de l’éco territoire de la falaise St. Jacques, currently under construction in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) and the Southwest of Montreal. She is the executive director of UrbaNature Education, a charity which teaches environmental education in urban settings.
Lisa received the Nature Inspiration Award in 2021 for her work on this important project. She was also presented with the medal of The National Assembly by MNA Kathleen Weil.
https://www.urbanature.org/single-post/10-steps-to-changing-your-world
Intergenerational history of the falaise:
Virtual tour of the falaise:
Naila Moloo is a 17-year-old innovator passionate about leveraging technology to address our global consumption of fossil fuels. Her debut novel was published when she was 14 and was a #1 bestseller in magical realism. The sequel, “Chronicles of Illusions: Bound by Dreams” was released in May 2022. CoHost, “The Curiosity Podcast.”
Autumn Peltier is an Anishinaabe Indigenous rights advocate from the Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada. She was named Chief Water Commissioner for the Anishinabek Nation in 2019. In 2018, at the age of thirteen, Peltier addressed world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly on the issue of water protection.
Alice-Anne Simard is the Director of Nature Quebec.
Kathleen Vaughn PHD RCA iMFA,PhD, RCA is a Montreal artist and activist bringing attention to the St Lawrence River through her studio- and community-based art works and her role as Concordia University Research Chair in Art + Education for Sustainable and Just Futures and Professor of Art Education.
Professor, Undergraduate Program Director, Coordinator of Community Art Education (BFA Major), Department of Art Education, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
https://www.concordia.ca/finearts/art-education.html
Concordia University Research Chair in Art + Education for Sustainable and Just Futures
http://re-imagine.ca/
Principal Investigator, Learning With the St. Lawrence
https://learningwiththestlawrence.ca/
Co-Director, Textiles & Materiality Cluster, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University
https://textilesandmateriality.com/
Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada
https://rsc-src.ca/en/fellows-members/college-members
Alana Westwood PhD is a Botanist, Educator and Researcher.
A lifelong advocate for healthy forests, Alana Westwood is an academic researcher and teacher at the School for Resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University. She has in the past worked for conservation non-profits, government, and industry and seeks to build bridges across sectors to tackle wicked environmental problems.
Read up on news of her lab’s work.
Janie Wray is a project leader at the Save Our Seas Foundation researching whales, from localising whale calls underwater to monitoring their behaviour from land and sea, Janie hopes for better protection for BC’s whales.