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In this important conversation, Dr. Tammara Soma, Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University & Research Director of the Food Systems Lab, speaks about her own personal journey towards the study of food, food systems and food waste from multiple dimensions. Dr. Soma explains terms such as food resiliency, food systems mapping, food justice issues, and the circular economy system and how all these relate to issues of food.Dr. Soma connects social, environmental issues ...

In this majestic episode of Islam & Earth, Sr. Nadia Abuisnaineh, a NASA Solar System Exploration Ambassador, speaks about how the majesty of the nightsky. She discusses how this connects us the Creator and the wonders of the Qur'an. Sr. Nadia provides examples of how the sahabi, and our previous predecessors connected to the nightsky, navigated using the nightsky.She discusses practical tips on how families can begin to explore the nightsky, local events and places to c...

In this episode of Islam & Earth in the last Jumah of Jumada al-Awwal, 1445, Dr. Nick Estes, a member of the lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Professor of American Indian Studies, as well as co-founder of the Red Nation Movement, and Indigenous Solidarity with Palestine speaks both of his personal experiences as well as the work he leads on Indigenous solidarity with Palestine on the deep and direct connections between Indigenous realities and the ongoing Palestinian gen0c!d*.Dr. Estes touc...

In this second Jumah of Rabi al- Akhar, as more than 20 days of genocidal attacks in Gaza are passing, this podcast episode is a conversation with Abeer Butmeh, an environmental engineer who is in Palestine right now.She shares what is happening right now in Gaza, what the immediate impacts are, what the projected long-term impacts will be on the land and the people of Gaza. She shares some of the studies regarding previous attacks on Gaza and how this has caused infertility of th...

In this special LIVE recorded episode of Islam & Earth, three guests: Nazish Qureshi (Muslim Climate Watch); Kadjahtou Balde (Faithfully Sustainable); and Tasnim Mellouli (Climate Justice Activist) join for a very critical conversation on climate justice and Palestinian justice issues.These three guests provide deep insights on how the Palestinian genocide is deeply entrenched in a colonial occupation and how this has impacted Palestinian lands for decades. They provide ...

In this episode of Islam & Earth in the second Jumah of Rabi ul Awwal, 1445, Sr. Tazeen Hasan, human rights advocate speaks about the environmental genocide that is happening in Kashmir.Sr. Tazeen explains how armed conflict impacts human rights, cause environmental catastrophes and how both are related, causing damage in manifold.She explains how the environment is a hidden victim of the occupation, and how environmental occupation is frequently underreported and has lethal repercu...