<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">An event in London is a little far for most of us to travel to, but I thought the group would be interested to learn of this interfaith/Muslim/Christian dialogue happening on climate change today.<div><br></div><div>Erik<br><div><div>--</div><div>Erik Hoffner</div><div>Orion Grassroots Network</div><div>888-909-6568</div><div><a href="http://www.oriongrassroots.org">http://www.oriongrassroots.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>The Orion Grassroots Network provides services and support to grassroots organizations engaged in ecological, social, and cultural change. </div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>--</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences \[IFEES\]" <<a href="mailto:events@ifees.org.uk">events@ifees.org.uk</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(223, 205, 165); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><table width="63%" id="table1" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><tbody><tr><td width="628"><table border="1" width="100%" id="table2" height="115" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><tbody><tr><td width="138"><img alt="" src="http://radicalmiddleway.co.uk/images/ifees_logo.jpg" align="left" width="125" height="122"></td><td><blockquote><h1 align="center" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 32px; padding-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 130, 101); line-height: 32px; padding-top: 2px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; letter-spacing: -1px; "><strong style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 67, 24); "><span style="color: rgb(203, 219, 42); ">radical</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 67, 24); ">middle</span><span style="color: rgb(203, 219, 42); ">way</span></strong></h1></blockquote><span style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 10px; padding-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(75, 73, 37); padding-top: 2px; font-family: Verdana; "><strong> Fight Fear and Ignorance. Have Faith.</strong></span></td><td><a href="http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.revelgroup.co.uk/USERIMAGES/CHRISTIAN_AID_LOGO_RED.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.revelgroup.co.uk/page6.htm&usg=__CCIdW-8BR_W8S1j_g5iu8tsaNxo=&h=400&w=902&sz=93&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=zruRnSmbgqj1FM:&tbnh=65&tbnw=146&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchristian%2Baid%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "><img height="65" src="http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:zruRnSmbgqj1FM:http://www.revelgroup.co.uk/USERIMAGES/CHRISTIAN_AID_LOGO_RED.jpg" width="144" align="right" style="border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: initial; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: initial; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; "></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td width="628" height="73"><div> <br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center">Salam, Shalom and Peace brothers and sisters in humanity :<br>Hope you are in the best of health and faith, Insha'Allah.<br> </p><p align="center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 67, 24); "><font face="Arial Narrow" size="6">For God Sake! Faith Action on Climate Change</font></span></p><p align="center" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Verdana; ">Please join is in this special one-night only event, IFEES, Christian Aid, RMW and other leading Muslim and Christian activists and artists join hands to launch an inter-faith appeal for action on climate change.</p><p align="center" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Verdana; ">The time for hollow talk is up. We are commanded to safeguard the Earth. Come together for an evening of conscious music and straight talk as we call on people of faith to unite for God's sake, and demand our leaders take bold action NOW!</p><p align="center" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Verdana; ">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Tuesday 3rd March 2009</b><br>Time:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>6pm</b><br>Venue:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>St George's Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A2HR</b><br><br>Join leading Muslim and Christian activists and artists for an evening<br>of conscious music and straight talk as we call on people of faith to<br>unite for God's sake and demand our leaders take bold action - NOW!<br><br>Climate change is a clear and present danger to us all. World leaders will gather in Copenhagen later this year to agree a new international deal on climate change. Failure to do so this time around could mean we lose our last chance for joint global action to stop the planet heating up. Just a two degrees rise in global temperatures means:<br><br>* acute water shortages for 1-3 billion people – that’s a fifth to three-fifths of humanity<br><br>* sea levels increasing by up to 95cm by 2100, which will submerge 18% of Bangladesh<br><br>* 40-60 million more people exposed to malaria in Africa<br>* 30 million more people going hungry as agricultural yields diminish<br>across the globe<br><br>Featuring... Muslim and Christian Activists form the frontlines of the global fight against climate change<br><br>Kumasi (USA), Deep Poetry from West Coast Hip Hop's Rising Star, Jahaziel, Explosive Rhymes from London's Change Preacher, Poetic Pilgrimage, Acclaimed Spoken Word and Hip Hop Duo<br>Mohammed Yahya, Mozambican Hip Hop Activist<br><br><b>All welcome and free entrance<br> </b></p><p align="center"><strong>TAKE THE PLEDGE! GET INVOLVED!</strong></p><p align="center"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk/bookings/components/com_rmwevents/rmw.php?act=forms&task=show&id=13"><strong>BOOK HERE!</strong></a></p><p align="center"><strong><br>For more information on the Countdown to Copenhagen Climate Change</strong></p><p align="center"><strong>Campaign visit:</strong></p><p align="center"><strong><br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.christianaid.org.uk/ActNow/Countdown-to-Copenhagen-climate%20%20-change/">http://www.christianaid.org.uk/ActNow/Countdown-to-Copenhagen-climate</a></strong></p><p align="center"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.christianaid.org.uk/ActNow/Countdown-to-Copenhagen-climate%20%20-change/"><strong>-change/</strong></a></p><p align="center"><em><strong><br>Supported by The Platform Community</strong></em></p><p align="center" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Verdana; "><br>For more information please visit:</p><p align="center" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Verdana; "> <a href="http://www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk"><font size="6">www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk</font></a></p><div style="text-align: left; "> <br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align: left; ">And a final reminder of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="q" id="q_11fc1b261682035a_0"><font color="#000000">our course on Islam & the Environment Sunday 8th March, 10am-5pm, London</font></span></p><p style="text-align: left; "><a href="http://www.ifees.org.uk"><img border="0" src="http://www.islamiccourses.org/IFEES%20Quran%20Course.jpg" width="945" height="1336"></a></p><p style="text-align: left; "><br>******************************************************<br>******************************************************<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Admin, Islamic Foundation for Ecology<br>and Environmental Sciences (IFEES)<br><br>******************************************************************<br><br>- Please NOTE IFEES does NOT take responsibility for any of the<br>events, notices or comments, presented in this e-mail bulletin,<br>other than its own. 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