Akashi

"In June 2006, Cambridge Carbon Footprint was awarded funding from Defra’s Climate Challenge initiative for creating a project that would focus on engaging people of different faiths and cultures in the debate about climate change. The project was called Akashi, which means sky in several Asian languages, and was the brainchild of Shilpa Shah, who was appointed co-ordinator...

"Shilpa is now based in London and delivers training for Akashi. The Cambridge-based project continues under the co-ordination of Siobhan Mellon and Tina Shah."

In 2009 "Shilpa Shah, the first co-ordinator and originator of the Akashi Project, has won the Sheila McKechnie Foundation Environment Award, which highlights campaigners working to provide sustainable solutions to the environmental problems we face locally and globally." 

Supporters
Accessed October 2012:


 * Faiths in Action
 * Artists Project Earth
 * Co-operative Community Fund
 * Cambridge Sustainable City

Contact
Web: http://akashi.cambridgecarbonfootprint.org/