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Welcome to ecoSikh! EcoSikh is the Sikh community’s contribution to the UNARC Seven Year Plan project, whose aim is to help the world’s major religions create long term plans to improve their relationship with the environment. EcoSikh will enable the Sikh community to connect all that we’re already doing for the environment and to forge new paths toward the creation of a sustainable and eco-friendly planet.

The project will provide a space for us to articulate and reflect upon the ways in which being Sikh is also being green. We seek to celebrate our rich history of environmentalism that began with Guru Nanak Dev Ji and continues through the work of Sikh eco-leaders grappling with today’s ecological crises.

Emerging from these reflections is the EcoSikh Five Year Plan. The Plan provides a clear course of action focusing on five key areas: assets, education, media/advocacy, eco-twinning, and celebration . At the end of five years we hope to have elements in place that will help Sikh communities protect the natural environment for generations to come and will enable the communities to become eco-leaders around the world.