eefa – forum of faiths
What the Faiths teach about the Environment
Sunday 5^th March 2006- 2.00pm to 5.00pm
LTB3, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
1.30pm to 1.55pm - Registration and drinks in the LTB Foyer
	2.00pm	Welcome and Introduction	Prudence Jones Chair of EEFA
	2.05pm	The Centre for the Environment and Society at Essex University	Professor Ian Colbeck Director of the Centre
Session 1			Chaired by Revd Julian Eades
	2.25pm	Jewish Perspective	Dr David Jacobi
	2.35pm	Discussion	Dr David Jacobi / Rabbi Daniela Thau / Eric Tanenbaum
	2.40pm	Muslim Perspective	Snowia Hussain
	2.50pm	Discussion	Snowia Hussain / Manwar Ali / Mojlum Khan
	2.55pm	Baha’i Perspective	Wendi Momen
	3.05pm	Discussion	Wendi Momen / Richard Togher /
	3.10pm	Christian Perspective	Revd Dr Tony Barker
	3.20pm	Discussion	Tony Barker / Nina Brown / Frances Green
	3.25pm	Short Break
Session 2			Chaired by Cynthia Capey
	3.40pm	Pagan Perspective	Chris Wood
	3.3.50pm	Discussion	Chris Wood/ Prudence Jones / James Parker
	3.55pm	Indic Perspective	Dr. Harshad Sanghrajka (tbc)
	4.05pm	Discussion	Dr. Harshad Sanghrajka / Sanjaya Martin Spettigue /
	4.10pm	Buddhist Perspective	Adrianus van Helvert
	4.20pm	Discussion	Adrianus van Helvert / Andrew Boswell / Dhamachari Amoghavajra
	4.25	Humanist Perspective	Margaret Nelson
	4.35	Discussion	Margaret Nelson / Michael Imison / Nathan Nelson
	4.40pm	Summary and Conclusions	Chaired by Mark Andrews The Environmental Agency
	5.00pm	Depart

Manwar Ali
Muhammad Manwar Ali was employed in the IT industry for around 25 years. He has also been involved in Islamic work for over 20 years across the country and has extensive experience in teaching and Muslim social affairs. He is especially loved by university students' Islamic Societies. His work has led to the establishment of the UK Charity JIMAS which reflects his activities in detail.

Dhamachari Amoghavajra
Dhamachari Amoghavajra is the Buddhist Religious Representative to Essex University and a member of FWBO Colchester Buddhist Centre

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews is a Regulatory Officer (Water Resources) with the Environmental Agency

The Revd Dr Tony Barker
Dr Barker is Development Officer – church and community for the Methodist Church, London NE District.

Dr Andrew Boswell
Andrew has been a practising Buddhist for a number of years with interest in Deep Ecology and Engaged Buddhism. He is also a Norfolk County Councillor for the Green Party.

Revd Nina Brown
Nina is a retired Anglican priest on the Committees of Colchester Inter-Faith Net and CCJ

Cynthia Capey
Cynthia was a founding member of Suffolk Inter-Faith Resource and is now Hon Faiths Officer for eefa and Education and Training Officer of SIFRE.

Professor Ian Colbeck
Professor Colbeck is Director of the Centre for Environment and Society at the University of Essex.

Revd Julian Eades
Julian is the Anglican Chaplain to the University of Essex.

Frances Green
Frances is a member of the Conservation Foundation

Snowia Hussain
Snowia works for London Sustainability Exchange on a 3 year part-funded project called Diverse London. Within the project she is currently working on a project in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to help increase their recycling rate, specifically within their large Muslim community.

Michael Imison
Michael Imison is Chair of Suffolk Humanists. He is an Oxford graduate who’s worked for BBC Television as a script-editor and director on Compact, classic serials and Dr Who, before leaving to become a literary agent. He represented screenwriters and playwrights for an American agency, then a British agency, which he eventually took over. His clients included Noël Coward and on retiring from the agency he set up the Noël Coward Society.

Dr David Jacobi
Dr Jacobi is a Pollution Industry Regulation and Radioactive Substances Regulation Inspector on the staff of the Environment Agency (Hatfield)

Prudence Jones
Prudence is Chair of EEFA, a psychotherapist, author and commentator on Pagan Issues. She is on the Committee of Cambridge Inter-Faith, and is a past President of the Pagan Federation.

Mojlum Khan
Mojlum Khan is the manager of the Bangladeshi Support Centre in Ipswich and visiting Imam at Hollesley Bay Prison. He is a writer and literary critic and a regular lecturer in Islam for SIFRE. Mojlum studied Islamic Sciences and Qur'anic Arabic at the Hijaz College and is currently writing a book on Islamic Intellectual History.

Dr Wendi Momen

Wendi Momen holds a BSc in Economics and a Ph.D. in International Relations, both from the London School of Economics. She was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United Kingdom in 1982 and was its chair from 1990 to 2000. She is presently its Treasurer. She is a founder member of the European Baha'i Business Forum, of which she is president. She is chairman of the One World Trust and a Trustee of the Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Derby and a Non-Executive Director of Bedfordshire Heartlands PCT.

Margaret Nelson
Margaret is a Humanist Celebrant, artist and writer and Group Secretary of Suffolk Humanists

Nathan Nelson
World traveller, Humanist.

James Parker
James is a druid and he is co-ordinator of Colchester Inter-Faith Net

Dr. Harshad Sanghrajka
Dr Sanghrajka is Hon Secretary of the Institute of Jainology.

Sanjaya Martin Spettigue
Martin is a follower of Sri Chinmoy and Hon Secretary of Suffolk Inter-Faith Resource.

Eric Tanenbaum
Director, Essex Summer School, Senior Advisor and Adviser For Students with Special Needs at the University of Essex

Richard Togher

Richard is a member of the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Ipswich and a Trustee of Suffolk Inter-Faith Resource

Rabbi Daniela Thau
Chair of Bedford Council of Faiths, Member of eefa’s Advisory Panel

Adrianus van Helvert
Adrianus is a lay Buddhist member of Saka Gakkai UK and a Member of SIFRE.

Chris Wood
Chris is a member of Norwich InterFaith Link and Norwich Pagan Moot. He has a degree in Environmental Sciences and has worked in sustainable transport for about 20 years.   He has given talks to Pagan gatherings on environmental issues and written on them for the magazines Pagan Dawn, The Witches' Wynd and Place, as well as for the Norwich Moot web-site under Cutting-edge Essays, 'Paganism, Sustainable Development and Politics'.