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🌿 Mindful Walks 🍄

This year at Epiphany Living we're learning and exploring all about foraging. We have such an abundance of edible and healing plants growing all around us. Follow us throughout the seasons on our journey. Eventually we'd like to incorporate locally sourced, organic, foraged plants into our products 🌱 This way we create the most sustainable and freshest stuff we can 🖤

Message to COP26

I am pleased to know that the United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP26 - to address the climate emergency we are facing today will be taking place in Glasgow, Scotland.

Global warming is an urgent reality. None of us is able to change the past. But we are all in a position to contribute to a better future. Indeed, we have a responsibility to ourselves and to the more than seven billion human beings alive today to ensure that all of us can continue to live in peace and safety. With hope and determination, we must take care of both our own lives and those of all our neighbours.

Our ancestors viewed the earth as rich and bountiful, which it is, but what’s more it is our only home. We must protect it not only for ourselves, but also for future generations, and for the countless species with which we share the planet.

The Tibetan plateau, the largest reservoir of snow and ice outside the North and the South Poles, has often been called “the Third Pole.” Tibet is the source of some of the world’s major rivers, among them the Brahmaputra, the Ganges, the Indus, the Mekong, the Salween, the Yellow River and the Yangtze. These rivers are the source of life because they provide drinking water, irrigation for agriculture, and hydropower, for nearly two billion people across Asia. The melting of Tibet’s numerous glaciers, the damming and diversion of rivers, and widespread deforestation, exemplify how ecological neglect in one area can have consequences almost everywhere.

Today, we need to address the future not with prayers prompted by fear, but by taking realistic action founded on scientific understanding. The inhabitants of our planet are interdependent as never before. Everything we do affects our human companions, as well as innumerable animal and plant species.

We human beings are the only creatures with the power to destroy the earth, but we are also the species with the greatest capacity to protect it. We must confront issues of climate change on a cooperative global level for everyone’s benefit. But we must also do what we can on a personal level. Even small daily actions, such as how we use water and how we dispose of what we don’t need, have consequences. We must make taking care of our natural environment a part of our daily life, and learn what science has to teach us.

I am encouraged to see that our younger generations are demanding concrete action on climate change. This gives some hope for the future. The efforts of young activists such as Greta Thunberg to raise awareness of the need to listen to the science and act accordingly is crucial. Since their stance is realistic, we must encourage them.

I regularly emphasise the importance of maintaining a sense of the oneness of humanity, the idea that every human being is a part of us. The threat of global warming and climate change is not limited by national boundaries; it affects us all.

As we face this crisis together, it is imperative that we act in a spirit of solidarity and cooperation in order to limit its consequences. I hope and pray that our leaders will gather the strength to take collective action to address this emergency, and set a timetable for change. We have to act to make this a safer, greener, happier world.

With my prayers and good wishes,

Dalai Lama
31 October 2021

Visited the Green Village - Eco Refill Stall at Downham Market on Saturday, absolutely buzzing to see Eco/Refill options in my local town 🙌🏻 After my recent failings with solid conditioner bars, I knew I was after some regular conditioner...so I took my pot, found some divine smelling stuff, filled up and now I'm super excited to try it! I also got a new pump bottle for the kitchen, filled with washing up liquid which I will then refill with some of our own Epiphany Living dish soap (which you can make yourself at home too, I'll post some super easy recipes) I'm already looking forward to visiting again, trying out other products and refilling more things! If you're local to Downham, Saturdays 8am-3pm...grab ya pots and get down there!

I am excited to be testing out the 'Wild' deodorant, it's completely plastic free, you have your case (which you choose your colour and can personalise it too!) and then compostable cartridges that come in lots of different fragrances. I've heard really great things about this product, so I'm super stoked to finally get one! If you'd like to join me in trying this eco swap, quote 'Cara Wilson' and you will get your case for free, saving you £7 😊 Also they have the Halloween limited edition fragrance of Toffee Apple on right now! 🖤🎃 Let us know how you get on and which fragrances you're trying....

Get a free case at Wild I recently used Wild and they gave me a special offer to share with my friends. I’m treating you to an exclusive a free case with your first order. I'm also getting a reward so it's a win win!

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