The Muslim Takeaway

1.3. Healing (with) the Earth: Climate Change and Plant-Based Lifestyle

In this week’s episode, I invite Eman Al-Sibassi to share with me her holistic world of activism – for the environment, for the climate, and for healthy living. Eman is a civil servant, working in International Climate Strategy, and she is also an advocate for intuitive, plant-based eating and health-conscious life choices. She seeks her inspiration not from today’s fleeting social media trends, but from our Islamic traditions to connect with the earth, to ground with the nature, and to work in synchrony with what our body (and mind) needs and with what the nature offers in return. We also briefly dab into what the faith communities are doing to mitigate climate change within their own capacity (shout-out to Cambridge Central Mosque for being the first European eco-mosque!) If you are to take one lesson from this conversation and save it on your doc file (there are many very quotable moments!), please let it be this: “Awareness is key in every facet of life; having conversations with others about topics that they don’t necessarily know much reduces ignorance and increases understanding […] you share the responsibility with them to do something.” Eman also runs a very inspiring business called “Beiroot”, offering plant-based delicious food. You can support her business by sliding into her DMs @beirootveganfood on Instagram!  Note: The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the podcast does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity or  opinion they represent.