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From NPR:
Recent allegations of employee abuse at an Iowa kosher meat plant have shaken the religious meat industry. For the millions who buy ritually-slaughtered meat, the raid fueled questions over where it really comes from. Some Muslims in Chicago aimed to find an answer. They began one of the nation’s first sustainably-raised “halal” meat cooperatives, […]

NPR has recently featured two stories about muslims working in an environmentally friendly manner in two very different ways.
 First, there is a story on the group Solar Cities in Cairo, who are devoloping solar water heaters at the grass roots level for inhabitants of medieval Cairo.  Not only are they tackling environmental issues, they’re also […]

The husband and I attended a CAIR MN dinner on Saturday on African American Muslims and the Civil Rights Movement.  I was looking forward to some down home southern cooking, but alas, it was catered middle eastern food.  Dude, we’re at a predominantly african american mosque that has it’s own kitchen and puts out delicious bean […]

Via Mr. Moo
The fourth Issue of the newsletter EcoIslam is out.  Check out the 3 previous issues on the website as well.
It’s been ages since I’ve been all tree-huggery.  inshaAllah that’s something I need to revive.

Last week, I read an article in the NYT on the effects our abundant meat consuption has on the environment.  As a bonified tree hugger who has lusted after hybrid cars, I was especially impacted by this assertion:
To put the energy-using demand of meat production into easy-to-understand terms, Gidon Eshel, a geophysicist at the Bard […]

I’m a bad, bad blogger.  I signed up for yesterday’s Blog Action Day, and was suppose to post something re: the environment.  I had grand plans to post, if not a dissertation on islam and the environment, at least to write a bit about my favorite environment friendly hadith:
 ”If the Day of Judgment begins while one […]