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On Saturday 10 May we held a fair trade event in Brighton to celebrate World Fair Trade Day, at which Greg Valerio of Cred Jewellery gave a talk about the future for Fair Trade gold and diamonds. A month on (where has the time gone?!), we thought it was about time we let you know how it went… although  I’m afraid [...]

I was engaged on 29 February after proposing to my H2B. It wasn’t exactly planned, so there were no rings exchanged on the said day. In fact, we had no idea how to go about things. So after the initial shock/excitement of deciding to get married, we set about trying to find a ring. Adam [...]

Our Ethical Weddings May newsletter went out today (yup, end of the month again!). We’ve got some great offers this month with the chance to win a copy of ecoescape written by our blogger bride, Laura (to help you plan that green honeymoon) and fabulous discounts from ethical jewellery designers, Ingle & Rhode. Not only that but [...]

.!. I’ve had a long absence from this blog… while I enjoyed my wedding and my month long honeymoon!   Everything was a huge success and Phil and I enjoyed every minute of our day. So here’s a little list of the best and the worst of our green successes and failures, for anyone who [...]

Our featured supplier this week is a familiar name to followers of ethical fashion.  Fifi Bijoux designs luxury ethical jewellery and features regularly in the weekend papers’ sustainable style guides (yesterday’s Times ‘Style’ magazine, for example) while also being recently shortlisted for an Observer Ethical Award. Describing her products as ‘an intoxicating blend of conscience and luxury’, Vivien [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Our recycled gold rings from GreenKarat.com, which I have talked about a couple of times on this blog now, arrived this week. Beautiful Dreamer move 2012 dvd 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 [...]

Bonanno: A Godfather’s Story psp Zathura: A Space Adventure dvd 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 [...]