Katy Kool

Have a Kool Yule!

Katy — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:00:24 +0000

We’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all peace and happiness for the festive season. Please remember to reduce waste during the holidays, reuse what you can and recycle what you can’t.

Have a kool yule! See you in the new year.

With love from Katy xx

Plush Fairtrade Belgian Chocolates

Katy — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:34:21 +0000

Indulge your sweet tooth with this scrumptious collection of Plush Fairtrade Belgian Chocolates, made from the finest ingredients and individually hand finished.

A perfect selection of the best classic chocolates including coconut, caramel, coffee, cranberry, almond, hazelnut praline, gianduja and truffle. The hardest decision will be deciding which one to eat first!

Each chocolate is lovingly made by talented chocolatiers in Belgium using only the highest quality cocoa beans from the Ivory coast, cane sugar from Paraguay and carefully selected specialist ingredients.

Plush is a Fairtrade chocolate company which is dedicated to the principals of Fairtrade. Over and above paying a fair price for ingredients, Plush gives 10% of its profits to Fairtrade organizations.

Price: £9.99

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Copenhagen climate deal cop-out

Katy — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:43:29 +0000

During the year, a number of developing countries showed a willingness to accept their share of the burden to avert climate chaos. But in the end, the blame for failure mostly lies with the rich industrialised world, countries which have the largest historic responsibility for causing the problem. In particular, the US failed to take any real leadership and dragged the talks down.

The scientists are saying that we have only a few years left to stop the rise in emissions before making the kind of rapid reductions that would give us the best chance of avoiding dangerous climate change. We can’t change that science, so instead we will have to change the politics – and we may well have to change the politicians.

This is not over, people everywhere demanded a real deal before the Summit began and they are still demanding it. We can still save hundreds of millions of people from the devastation of a warming world, but it has just become a whole lot harder.

From Greenpeace.

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Red Kazuri Earring & Necklace Set

Katy — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:51:31 +0000

Be bold with this bright Red Kazuri Earring & Necklace Set. Made by women in Kenya, every bead is shaped and painted by hand, making each piece of jewellery unique and original.

Kazuri was set up over 30 years ago and now employs over 300 local women in the village of Karen, a few miles outside of Nairobi in Kenya. The women get free transport to and from work, and a few of them make beads from home as well.

The necklace measures approx 18in from end to end.

Price: £29.99

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Multi Metallic Bangle Bracelet Set

Katy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:23:59 +0000

Get triple the amount of arm candy with this Multi Metallic Bangle Bracelet Set, featuring three softly textured metal bracelets which exude sophistication.

These bold bangles will match every outfit, every handbag and every shoe colour, wear as a set for full on metallic shine or individually to accent your outtift.

A wonderful gift or great as a stocking filler. Presented in golden, silver and bronze metallic colours with a subtly-textured hammered effect. Diameter 7.5cm.

Price: £12.99

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Blue Celestia Stone Silver Necklace

Katy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:11:51 +0000

Subtle and sophisticated, this Blue Celestia Stone Silver Necklace features a delicate, pale blue, square stone mounted in silver, on a silver chain.

The necklace is made in Peru by Allpa, an organisation which helps to provide livelihoods for families in craft production.

Allpa (a Quechua Indian word that means ‘earth’) works with families across Peru, including people living in the Amazon rainforest area. For most of these people, craft production is their only source of income.

Price: £19.99

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Copenhagen: Please help the world

Katy — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:23:55 +0000

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Copenhagen climate conference opens

Katy — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:09:29 +0000

The biggest climate meeting in history, with 15,000 participants from 192 nations, opened in Copenhagen on Monday with host Denmark saying an unmissable opportunity to protect the planet was “within reach.”

110 world leaders, including President Barack Obama, will attend a summit at the end of the meeting to agree deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and raise billions of dollars in aid for developing nations.

The presence of so many world leaders “reflects an unprecedented mobilization of political determination to combat climate change. It represents a huge opportunity. An opportunity the world cannot afford to miss” Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told delegates at the opening ceremony.

“The ultimate responsibility rests with the citizens of the world, who will ultimately bear the fatal consequences, if we fail to act” he said.

Read the full story on MSNBC.

Add your voice to the campaign for a climate deal on the TckTckTck website and get the latest news and views from Greenpeace.

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Organic Ginger Body Scrub

Katy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:10:21 +0000

This stimulating Organic Ginger Body Scrub contains sweet almond oil to help smooth and improve the tone of the skin.

The organic essential oils of ginger, lemon, lime, black pepper, eucalyptus and coriander work to boost the circulation. All ingredients are 100% natural.

Use to aid detoxing, as the essential oils work well with the lymphatic, combined with a wonderful zesty ginger fragrance.

Handmade by Andrea Garland, an Aromatherapist who become disillusioned with expensive, mass produced, unethical and chemically laden products.

Andrea’s natural beauty products are carefully packaged into amber glass bottles which can be recycled or reused after use.

Price: £18.00

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Fair Trade Mini Spa Gift Set

Katy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:33:49 +0000

This Fair Trade Mini Spa Gift Set combines two Balinese natural soaps with a buff body brush, all contained in a fairly traded linen bag. Perfect for pampering!

The natural volcanic sand soap is mildly exfoliating, with a hint of refreshing peppermint to waken the skin. The natural tomato and lime smoothie soap is bursting with citrus aroma and packed with vitamins and minerals.

The natural soaps are made exclusively for Biome Lifestyle by a small cooperative in Bali, where members of the cooperative benefit directly from every bar sold.

The body brush is made from FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) wood and the bag is made from fair trade linen.

Price: £32.00

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