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Robert Mugabe is using his army to take control of Zimbabwe’s diamond fields.
According to petitioning organisation, Avaaz, 200 civilians have been murdered in the process and the profits from these dirty diamonds – which could end up in our engagement or wedding rings – will help fund the ongoing violent political conflict in this troubled [...]

Tim Rhode of Ingle & Rhode, ethical jewellery designers and our featured supplier of the week, shares some practical tips on choosing an engagement ring… over to Tim:
How to choose the right engagement ring?
Choosing a ring can be time consuming, expensive and stressful. So how do you find a deal that will leave both you and your [...]

For today’s post, we’re delighted to present an interview with this week’s featured ethical wedding supplier, ethical jewellery designers: Ingle & Rhode:
Name: Tim Ingle and David Rhode
Location: Piccadilly, London
Tell us a bit about yourself and your business
We offer ethical fine jewellery – engagement rings and wedding bands whose provenance we can guarantee. Our gold is [...]

I know we’re in the middle of Fairtrade Fortnight events at the moment but just to confuse you, I thought I’d let you know about an event we’re planning for World Fair Trade Day on Saturday 10 May.
We will be hosting the event with Cred Jewellery and the Sussex Fair Trade Network to raise awareness of [...]

Following on from our post questioning the cleanliness of Canadian diamonds, we have asked Greg Valerio of Cred Jewellery, who are pushing for fair trade diamonds, for his thoughts on the issue. Over to Greg…
Firstly, due to the Kimberley Process the likelihood of someone buying a conflict diamond is now less than 1%.
The only main source [...]

“There are no clean diamonds.  Exploring for them, digging them out of the ground and selling them requires sacrifices from the natural environment, from the wildlife and fish that live on it, and from the Aboriginal people who depend on it.” Mining Watch
To open the diamond debate, we have picked up on a thread in the [...]

In the wake of Leo’s film ‘Blood Diamond’, conflict free diamonds have hit the headlines in a big way.  No longer is the mention of conflict free carbon met with a blank look and a ‘huh?’.  Now it’s a, ‘oh, like in that film…’. 
But was the film too little too late? Or have the issues moved [...]

We get a lot of requests for details of organic, fair trade and eco-friendly suppliers based in the North of England, as a lot of the ethical action seems to be going on down South…
So we were happy to find the Yorkshire Post reporting on a green wedding for one of their native brides from [...]