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The Greening our Communities Toolkit: Demonstrating a Need for Culturally-Responsive Environmental Education

By Aadil Nathani For climate action to be effective, those involved must feel a personal connection to the work they are doing, whether that be through cultural and religious ties, or reconnection with traditional ways of knowing. This is what Green Ummah’s Greening our Communities Toolkit set out to achieve. The Toolkit helps educators and […]

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Practicing Shukr: Maintaining Hope Amid the Climate Crisis 

By Maryam Gamar Finding reasons to remain hopeful is becoming increasingly difficult in the face of the climate crisis. The more you learn, the more you may realize how severe human devastation of our planet has become. As Muslims, we have a tool to maintain hope and endurance as we participate in climate action. It […]

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Where the olive trees once stood: Ecocide in Gaza

By Aadil Nathani Indigenous peoples across the world have long maintained strong, reciprocal relationships with their lands and environments. In contrast, our resource-driven capitalist system has permitted, and in many cases encouraged, corporations to deforest, over-exploit, and deplete resources with minimal accountability. We see this in the deforestation of the Amazon and pollution of water […]

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