We are really excited about our World Fair Trade Day event this Saturday 10 May!
Greg Valerio of Cred Jewellery is going to be telling us all about the process of seeking Fair Trade certification for gold and diamonds. So if you’re on the lookout for an ethical engagement or wedding ring, are confused about conflict diamonds [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
My free-range hen party is nearly upon us, and I have just been getting the last details organised.
My creative friends Lucie and Jo are all prepared to give us a fun jewellery workshop and have come up with loads of special pieces they can demonstrate and help us to make.
I have ordered all the beads and [...]
Our recycled gold rings from GreenKarat.com, which I have talked about a couple of times on this blog now, arrived this week.
They are absolutely beautiful! I can really recommend them.
We went for the simplest recycled gold rings that GreenKarat do, in white gold with what they call a ‘stone’ finish, and we are really pleased [...]
Last night we took the plunge and ordered our rings from www.greenkarat.com… so now we can’t wait to see them and report back to you all what recycled gold actually like.
Rings from GreenKarat each have a ‘Green Assay’: a list of the green credentials of that particular ring, including the recycled metal content, details 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 [...]
Weddings can impact the environment in all sorts of mysterious ways. Take tree frogs for example.
The other day Phil and I went to watch a presentation all about how the trans-Amazonian highway is changing the rainforest. For the economies of Peru and Brazil to survive in the world market, they need a road to transport [...]