Fair Trade Jewelry

Company’s Fair Trade International Manufacturing Will Now Be Eco-Friendly

Santa Fe, NM: May 29, 2008: Starting in July, 2008, all jewelry manufactured by Reflective Images will be done with 100% recycled precious metal.

The most toxic element of our supply chain has been internationally mined silver,” said Marc Choyt, President of Reflective Images. “We facilitated an agreement between

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Introduction:

Laurent Cartier asked me in the previous post how complete transparency is possible in your supply chain, apart from saying that somebody brought you a stone and you paid him a fair price.

Three models currently exist where we can have trusted transparency from the artisanal miner to the marketplace. Each of these scenarios involves a great deal of

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Tags: Transparency, CSR, Change Agents, F*R*E*, Fair Trade Gems, Editorial by Marc Choyt
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Introduction:

The ongoing marketing of “green” jewelry became a subject of conversation on the Madison Dialogue list serve. This list is composed of many of the leaders in the multi-sector initiative to clean up the jewelry supply chain.

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In this article, Sandra discusses the path breaking work in Columbia, where ecologically mined gold supports rural indigenous communities. **It should be noted that Oro Verde gold will soon be readily and easily available through a bullion company that is being developed by Greg Valerio.
Read Sandra’s story below.**

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Tags: Transparency, Fair Trade, Change Agents, Environment, Mining, Gold, F*R*E* by Marc Choyt
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Santa Fe, NM: January 30, 2008: Reflective Images, a designer jewelry firm, announces the free Ebook for the jewelry trade entitled: THE ETHICAL JEWELRY HANDBOOK: A Resource Guide for the jewelry sector wishing to adopt exceptional standards and radical transparency: Fair, Responsible, Ecological (FRE) System.

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I was invited to be interviewed for a Rapaport Diamond News segment last week. It was podcast on December 13, 2007. Take a peek!

http://www.diamonds.net/news/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=19997

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Would you feel good about a wedding ring if it was created by maltreated labor or with materials that trashed the environment? Does your expression of love just extend to your intimate ones; or beyond them to the greater human family? It takes real courage for a bride and groom to even consider these issues, but there is a greater danger for those who ignore them.

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Tags: Best Practices, Spin, Transparency, CSR, Ethical Initiatives, Sustainability, Fair Trade, Environment, Ethics, Fair Trade Gems, Diamonds, Jewelry Manufacturing, F*R*E*, Platinum, Mining, Editorial by Marc Choyt
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We at Reflective Images are deeply concerned about the ethical imprint of our product. We have sought to implement a wide range of environmentally responsible practices: (http://www.fguardians.org/library/paper.asp?nMode=1&nLibraryID=500) and have also looked for suppliers that share our core values. (http://jckonline.com/article/CA6421028.html)

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SANTA FE, NM: November 1, 2007: Reflective Images, a designer jewelry firm, announces the creation of the FRE™ Rating System on its redesigned website, www.celticjewelry.com. The FRE Rating System offers detailed insight into the supply chain, from the mine to the showroom, for all components of every finished piece of jewelry the company sells. FRE empowers customers to make decisions based on a product’s: F= Fair labor; R = Social Responsibility and E = Ecological impact. The site is a model for radical transparency in the jewelry sector.

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We now have the opportunity to proactively address the shadow, or toxic side of the jewelry industry in a truthful way. The emotional trigger issues, such as mining, blood diamonds and a host of other concerns actually make our industry a very easy target. We can embrace this opportunity or we can continue to live in denial.

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