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discipline, reflection, community, and social awareness. increasingly, environmentalists also see it as an opportunity to reflect on and practice sustainability. so today we ask, how can ramadan be more sustainable? but 1st let's hear from the shot, choppy, co founder, the arab youth, climate movement. and doctor, i think, given this lemon world and the region which is one of the most wonderful to climate change, we need to use this as a time to so for reflect our way of living. the consumerism problem, the food vase problem, etc. i think my mother gives us a great opportunity to leave a call from the eco friendly man. this teacher gather a collectivism community to work towards climate issues that are really community liver. and this can be done to wages initiatives or 2 of them to community at your family and at 2 or a gathering 6 cetera. joining us to discuss from washington,

d. c. corey manjeet, a faith based activism, founder of green ramadan in cambridge, england, a monster job mystique from the cambridge sent charl mosque and with us from darmstadt, germany, abdul, olim malik. international marketing manager for green, if tar. oh yeah. hey, one more seat at this table that you, if you're watching this on youtube, see the box over there. we've got a live producer waiting to get your comments to me, so i can get him to our guess. so let's do this together, right. all right, let's set this up a mom to job. we you, for our non muslim audience set up ramadan, i'm sure they're familiar that a 1000000000 muslims are, are participating or observing ramadan this month, but they may not know what that really meets. yes course you know, we use this opportunity to invite l a. busy neighbors, you know, over there's nothing better they say like, a nice fresh the most,

an a date that can bring communities together. and then you introduced to them all that ramadan and tales. and of course, we are more and more conscious and aware in recent years i have to say for the last 10 years or so of being eco friendly, environmentally friendly. so since we opened our moss, which is arguably the 1st eco friendly mosque in europe, we have always pushed this agenda on green, faith glint, going green. so like this year, amazon, our 1st major lecture that was given by our chairperson. she had lucky murat was green way, we're going green. so we're constantly emphasized that and when we bring our neighbors and colleagues of the fates and non, we basically share the same idea with them and show them what it looks like to have an eco friendly. he thought which is somewhat more simple than usual, but mainly it looks like something which is taking care of the environment. corey,

can you tell me how? because i think a lot of people who maybe don't know that much more roman are really associated with fasting being kind of a the, a big part of it. how does that lead to more consumption? what are we talking about here? well, during ramadan i'm the focus is on food. a lot of the focus is on who? so after a day, a fair thing are you want it or you want to do is eat, you want to get that the most. i just like the amount that the so with that consumption, there's a lot, there's a lot of weights and that's what needs to change. there's ways from that there are disposable big. there's waste on the food, there's waste from water, and that is the chain. when you say there's, there's weiss's or more waste than any other time of the year. yes. so did i promise you the dumpsters behind most massage it are more all during ramadan than

any other time. a lame. how did you become involved with the idea of a green? if tar it is exactly the background as the mom and sister corey has mentioned me personally going to mass taking my friends that used my non muslims firms. i was always ashamed, walking past piles of rubbish, garbage and especially food left orders. as mentioned, a lot of people are coming in. so we have high volumes of guests attending at the mosque. so usually what most used to do is they tend to just buy disposable items and the use of a lot of waste of food. so, but this has really brought us to the conclusion that we need to have a positive change. and what better time is there than in ramadan, when the community, a whole a community of muslims worldwide is consciously pursuing to do a better thing and to improve themselves, improve the environment. so we usually have this gain and this need to do great

things. so especially at that time, it is a perfect opportunity to do a change for a better. so on the one hand, there at the mosque is seeing these pies. and on the other hand, they're trying to improve their and their donations their prayers. so how does this go hand in hand? so we came up with a campaign. how you can do step by step and change for improvement. when it comes to disposable items, we encourage mass. that's one of those goals that we have in the green. if our goals to not use any disposable items, when it comes to food left, always we ask our guests in advance to bring containers so that if there are any food left overs so that they can donate them to a charity to a homeless house. so that there is no left over that food or at the mos i want to bring in a video comment from, nor is there as id. she's obsessed to professor at the university of maryland. here to check this out. a lot of times the conversations that we have about climate

change or the need for climate action and environmental sustainability can sometimes feel like these ideas are being kind of impose. there's this kind of economic burden of environmental action and sustainable action that is placed on other countries in the world. and particularly in the global south, it was actually north article and the conversation that kind of led us to doing an episode about this. so i had this pulled up on my computer right now, and i'm just gonna tweet it out for our audience. don't go now, but after the show, you guys can check that out if you need it by mich wooder is just at josh rushing. and it's, it's really excellent article you can read about that later on to john, i want to ask, you, could you kind of mentioned the at the beginning, but i'm curious what it means that you're a part of one of the 1st eco friendly mosque in europe. yes, so like we said, you know, we realize that, you know, it is our religion, our holy scripture which pushes us, you know, it,

it is basically asking us to set an example to others by being environmentally friendly, using materials that can sustain our planet for much longer than what we are. so our mosque is quite unique in the sense that the entire building actually is made of wood timber. it's timber structure. it's like people don't even realize from some pictures you, you might not even get it. even the walls themselves are actually build of timber, even the roof itself, the whole building is actually made of wood, not just the columns, which look very nice and beautiful. so you know, for me to be part of this particular project is an additional honor, but an additional responsibility or but like i just said earlier on our chair, earth and she had to take him. rod is a very strong believer and proponent of this green faith so called a green theology. so or whatever we can raise weekly we, we used the opportunity to raise awareness in our congregation to educate them that

we are genuinely being appointed by god to look after this planet and genially. the scripture is telling us not to waste. yes, you can sustain yourself that there is nothing wrong with eating and drinking in moderation, but not going beyond the line of waste and you know, extravagance. so we use that. our model, like her brother helene said as a really big platform to share that strong message with our congregation and raise their, you know, level of awareness. and hopefully, you know, it will somewhat penetrates, you know, in the, in our communities at family levels and then neighborhood levels and, and, and, and maybe you know, to, to, to a larger scale. corey, will you talk about your, your, if tar kit, if you will. i found that really interesting. yes. so i'm a long time ago when i only had 4 kids. so i was that the match did and there were

styrofoam cups on the table, full of dates for people to break their fast. and people pick that up, that cup, ate the food bunker fast and threw away the cup. and i'm like that only happen that was only used for less than 5 seconds. this is going to happen over and over and over again for the rest of ramadan for $2930.00 days. and this might be happening in other massages. so i had to make a change. so i made a change with my family 1st. i created an if bar kit, so it had a stainless steel tray of usable tumbler, even had a cloth napkin. we had bamboo cutlery, and it became our family tradition to bring these if to our kids, wherever to, wherever. if toby went to where that be at the, the master or whether it be at the one path. and so when i'm bringing these kids, people are looking at me like this. you know, what are you doing? and so i got to start these conversations about sustainability and,

and ramadan and how there's, there's a disconnect to crate all this waste when a lot does not love the wasted, if the disconnect. so i had to make a change. and then you know, later on i with the other people bringing their little it's our kids as well. my fella. so it was, it was just a way to make a change for my family 1st and start some conversation again. we just go back to what the you set it up beginning. this is a side note, but did you say what? i only have 4 kids? yes, i have 5. now. me to go to a fictions. oh, look able to play some video. this is actually from of door from the organization. you work with green. if tar, your watch us a agreeing with

easy and mainly budgetary practice. let's with, if we don't have enough data, we're at our home. let's ask the guests to bring your own. it's an 8 accept food to those in the mix. spread the word and would you rate us to take up the idea or plan off of, of corey, who had my different change here. elaine, can you talk to us what some of the biggest things that people can do during this ramadan to make their ramadan more green? yes, sort of, i like to say, i completely agree with both her foot. corey said, under the map said, because basically these are the core principles that we need to engage with because they actually allow us to engage for the whole community. these are core principles that regardless of your islamic background, you will accept and agree upon. that's the beauty of stewardship, like m clifford and when we talk about miss and balance and also amanda, the,

the god given trust to us as a muslims. so thinking coming back to your question in that regard, the easiest way to start is to start to day, even if it's one step, but to have it sustainably growing. what we offer as e a as an organization is a green. if star guide it is something that you can just print out on our website or like just download it on your phone, it's an english and german, and it allows you to go step by step on a daily basis to a more sustainable if star that means that you can have also information about the impact of whatever step you're taking, and that is the connection between your local action and the global impact. let's say as sister corey mentioned, you're not going to bring any more disposable items. let's count that down to how many tons of plastic you're saving. let's count down to how much c o 2 you're saving with every single step. and this is something that is particularly designed for households. it is designed for institutions such as muslim student associations

that usually host a lot of guests, but especially also to the mass. so anyone, regardless of their background, whether you have a high income, the low income, and regardless of where you are, this program is for you to make your, if star more sustainable. elaine, will you tweet a link or that to me is just at just rushing on to water and i'll get that out to our followers after the show where they can download there. yeah, we, we do that be really helpful. we have people, i'm going to bring in another video. cam at this is from harms a body. is a content crater in islamabad. pakistan checked herself. this is our one good idea. couldn't be to placing beef with lenders. i have no doubt about it. there to be a lot of eve, but the impact on diamond is pretty scared. he could also do this by going i don't want to fool 10 vegetables in our home beaten garden. so the best thing about about your thought is that the soil is actually related more so the thing, anything rules of it here that i think this, we could do this and probably it was the carbon footprint of food is when i believe

that it's very important for all of us to learn about sustainability and obviously the impact of sustainable to hold on climate change. so yeah, well that, and then we just keep on raising mortar, we had mr. ward, sustainable food. yeah, i see everyone kind of nodding and smiling along with that and then i love also just an opportunity to hear from someone in pakistan saying the soil is really good here. you know we, we can grow our own local vegetables, but it's such a global thing. ramadan, right? i mean, we're talking to people in 3 different countries right now. but a lame, i love how you point out that you can make this kind of global connection. i want to bring in one more video comment. this is from a mom, a mom must sure. i'm probably messing up his last name, but he's at the south gate mosque in london. hold on is the month when we connect with god. we connect with our fellow humans, we connect with our selves. when we connect, we understand the pain and suffering of people. we don't have enough and we had

talked about the level, don't eat and drink, but in meshes we learn to so frustrated. we eat the right time, we need the right food in the right quantity. we don't waste. so we're teaching our communication to be more comfort of how much they eat, what they eat, as well as how much they can share with those who are around them. and recycling more, these are some of the key aspects of our faith that we like to encourage everyone to remember not only in the month of ramadan, but throughout the year. can i add something to that? yeah, yeah. jump in place. yeah. you know, even under, under former speaker sets of really beautifully that especially coming from pakistan since my ancestors of pakistan armed findings. well the 1st year he was one of the pack them was one of the country. there was a 1st to implement or look to strategic development goals. that's not just for fun sake, but that's out of the fact that they are facing now the consequences of the global change that we all facing. and if you just look at the current situation of a lot of muslims, some of them are consciously saying i can cope with the situation. i'm feeling

helpless. i feel overpowered. so they individually fee leg and in a huge air gear, and they're not feeling that they're having any impact. and what we would like to do with this campaign is to utilize not just only the strength of the communal effort, which is not just a regional, but as you can see, it's a global impact by what a sister carries, contributing by what the mom could you being does is a global cause having an effect immediately not aren't just on humans, but actually to your own family in my case. so this is a very personal issue. and on the other hand, it's also empowering young people, regardless of their background, regardless of which social circle they're coming from, to take action and in a beautiful way where they're engaging even inter religiously with everyone who is in their community. if you go to a local farmer and you buy from him regardless of his background, but you're supporting your local producers, you're supporting local farmers, local artwork. and that is the beauty of staying local, working locally,

and then thinking globally, i want to check in with our youtube audience here. ah, we're getting a lot of love, a lot of ramadan greetings, but we're also getting a little bit of pushback. and so i'm going to push this to you a mom. ah, some say the pushback is against the less me which you may or may not find surprising. ah, someone is saying if there was something wrong with me it would be her arm. okay. oh, after mama, i want to get at least a year and explore it. me as a 3rd. yes. all right. oh no. right down the line here. let's begin with mom. yeah, yeah. i mean the, the, it's an interesting comment. i have to say like it's not everything that. busy that, that seem to be harmful to us. you know, at 1st instance that the religion says it's low follower or vice versa. you know, we, we just can't sometimes get the divine wisdom behind certain legal rules. or yeah,

i mean, it is a valid point. no, no, no doubt about that. so what we can propose is lying, just like and yes, it seems like we need to consume some meet or for those people who can and feel like doing that. but again, in moderation, you know, quote on mentions, you know, animals and how god facilitated them, you know, for our usage. and i really like this philosopher who recently said, you know, all that we have on this planet should be seen as a source of life. not a resource to be used. you know, you know, we basically, this is what the koran teaches us need to see all different species as nations in their own right. you know, we did on integrity. and so if we looked at the animal kingdom from that point of view, i'm pretty sure that you know, we would start consuming less of meat and we'll, we'll, you know, like maybe on some very special occasions. and we were realized by the end of the road. well, we are still fine and healthy and,

and nothing has happened to us not to eat meat is our weep. corey, what is your other? so one of the other, one of the, in one of the videos someone was talking about ramadan is about connecting with the, with the law and connecting with ron, connecting with community. i want to add that ramadan is also about connecting with the prophet peace and blessings be upon him. so what did the profit do? we should want to do what the prophet do. muslims love their meat. yeah, i'm not telling anyone to be vague and i'm not vegan, just let's just less like the a ma'am said moderation, try one day. a week built with vegetables, roots, toko grains, lentils, nuts, the template that like there's a lot to eat but but left, eat like the profit. did he the upon him who usually 8 meet on special occasions though he was most likely assume a vegetarian. so left be like to profit and just eat left elim. i

can just agree and me personally, being someone who for over 15 years has been raising chickens. who has worked in the organic and halla certified meat industry. i can just old. so just put to the occasion, one question, and our is especially when we look from it from a religious perspective we, on our campaign, we are not about telling people, let's go vegan, always things. let's consider not only the amounts of me, but also what sort of meat work eating from. so if we're praying all day, if we're giving donations and then we want to open up a if i like break our fast and with good stuff. and the last one, a tyler in the koran, he always mentioned hello, what a given. that means that it should not just only be halla, but it should also be tell you our mom can maybe later on, explain to us maybe. but what tell you is, but to our common understanding, it is right now that how can we bring genetically modified mess slaughtered

industrialized me to the occasion and claim that this has anything to do with the needs that is supposed to be hellen, t a. so it really reflects a current state and also sort of crisis that we're facing internally when we talk about like the 1st concern, the amounts of me they're gonna take the meat of us at the end of the day. but no one's really asking in what sort of state was this animal? did it actually ever see the daylight? did it never actually have like really after we did it actually ever get real foods? i mean, they eating more antibiotics and probably we're consuming. so at the end of the day, really it is about not just only yes or no, but also the how, where everything's coming from. how can it be how lar, if it hasn't really seen the daylight? so i, i'd just like to add this to the occasion and for the discourse i will get it. well, i just couple minutes live here. i wanna bring a one more piece of video and then some commentary after it. oh, what does it mean to be a student?

the families are losing their homes to france in bangladesh and pakistan. communities are starving due to jobs in somalia gunston and decisions are dominated by the powerful fees from woke governments to cooper pollutants. i left out the conversation, we make up a quarter of the time that we deserve to be part of the creation reaches up to represent our so we are 2000000000 voices speaking together, turning up the heat on an option, striving alive and injustice because peace, harmony and balance or non plan it starts talking about in a mom's agenda. i'm thinking that you know, so many of the countries that are being impacted by climate change, our muslim countries. how do you take this advocacy out of the month of ramadan and connect to kind of year round to the global community?

yeah, it's a really good question. and maybe that's not a coincidence that it's mainly most and countries that are affected by the, you know, the current climate catastrophe or change that, you know, maybe we need to start reading our book again, you know, properly and practice it as we should. and the call, you know, is quite blatant and direct to us. so i think like i said, ramadan is just the basis where we really, you know, very uniquely but very consistently and persistently train ourself to restrain, to, to withhold, to abstain from is like giving up things. so consuming less less of an intake design. it was so so adamant in rather than you ought to at least you know, you can have eaten more just because you stop teaching for 14 or 12 hours and then over, eat at the time. that's right. that's right. amount to months, you got to eat less, so i think we need to boss on this message. so mom,

i need to stop you there because that best that's all the time we have. i want to thank you and a lame and corey for joining us. i want to say ramadan will bark to everyone out there who's observing at this month and everyone else will see you next time on the strength. ah, awe

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