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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
