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 [...]
Wow… I just received Cred Jewellery’s Spring 2008 newsletter and out of curiosity clicked on the link to US website, The Consumerist, where they were debating the recent Reuters article on Cred’s efforts - working with the Fairtrade Foundation and the Association for Responsible Mining - to find a way to certify gold as ‘Fairtrade’ by [...]
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 [...]