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Inspirational Stories From No Impact Week: The DC Green Muslims, Volunteering In Costa Rica And Confronting "Poverty Consciousness"

Source: Huffington Post

Oct 29, 2009

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Starting Sunday October 18, HuffPost hosted the inaugural No Impact Week, where people around the globe examined and reduced their ecological footprint by taking part in a short and intense period of conscious consumption supported by local and online communities.

Of the over 5,000 participants, an environmental-conscious organization of Muslims who call themselves Green Muslims in the District was the largest localized community to take on the project. The D.C. Green Muslims used No Impact Week as an opportunity to improve both their spiritual and environmental practices, and to be "green in a Muslim community, and Muslim in a green community." They created this inspiring video to sum up the eight-day experiment:

This Muslim community, which created a unique guide that placed inspiring quotes from Islamic texts side by side with tips for how to live a lower-impact life, was only one of many groups that customized the week for their specific location or religion. Throughout the week, four hundred participants interacted on a daily basis through the No Impact P

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