Maud Grainger and Keith Budden
Four years ago, after running an Islam and the Environment Week, Maud Grainger decided looking at climate change with faith communities would be a great way to take action. The group Faith and Climate Change was set up by Maud Grainger with help from Keith Budden, who has nominated the group for Birmingham’s Local Hearts Award, in the community group category.
Birmingham has over one million of the population belonging to a faith, and this was too big a group not to help with combating climate change, said Maud. The programme has now been replicated across the UK – looking at climate change in terms of values regardless of faith. Why else would a group a young muslim men from Small Heath meet some old Quakers in Bournville? To look at how they installed solar water heater in the Friends Meeting House. Looking at climate change has brought these communities together. Here, they tell their story.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 6:49 pm (#)
This all sounds very inclusive, until you realise that the clarion cry “If you are a person of faith concerned about climate change” excludes one section of the community – those who do not believe in a god.
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:19 am (#)
Perhaps it’s just harder to herd non-believers? Thanks for listening.