Fair Trade Jewelry

Introduction:

John Hardy Jewelry has always been deeply rooted in environmental responsibility as well as an abiding love of Bali. Last year, John and Cynthia sold the company and immediately started a visionary international school, called Green School, located between Ubud and Denpassar in Bali. My brother, Brad Choyt, was hired as Green School’s Director.

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Kim Poole, www.aurorawildlife.com has over 25 years of professional wildlife experience in the public and private sector throughout western Canada, with extensive experience in the Northwest Territories where diamond mining is taking place.

His work focuses on wildlife research & management, and wildlife habitat management and assessment.

I met him in British Columbia, where we discussed diamond mining issues. These follow up questions were sent via email.

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Leaders in the forefront of manifesting true Ethical Jewelry, speak their minds about how and where the Jewelry Industry needs to go for truly ethically sourced jewelry.

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In a study of the jewelry sector in 2007, JCOC notes how Blood Diamonds, Dirty Gold and to a lesser extent, Rubies from Burma have led many consumers to be concerned about where their jewelry comes from and how it is made.

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I was reading the January 2008 issue of JCK Magazine when I came across a short article about the Democratic Presidential candidates and diamonds. Having already heard about the diamonds or pearls question asked of Hillary Clinton I expected another humorous fluff piece. But when I read the article I noticed something else, something that got no press when it happened, and only rated a few lines in the already short JCK article.

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Katy Sai of Story Bridge TV, an independent documentary production company, contacted us after visiting our website. After looking over their videos on the work done by the Anonymous Angels Co-op in Peru, we wanted to share their work with our readers. They’re inspiring for both the consumer and the greater jewelry trade. In Katy’s words: “They’re quite moving and a great example of how a socially responsible company can make a difference. Make sense?”

Well, we think so.

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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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Roger Smith got in touch with me after the Ethical Jewelry Summit, expressing his regret that he was unable to make the meeting. The resulting correspondence resulted in this interview, in which discusses his project which uses technology to connect the market to remote places around the globe.

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IDEX Online Magazine is a publication of the International Diamond Exchange. IDEX is an innovative diamond trading environment that links the best of the diamond tradition with the most advanced in today’s technology. The brainchild of global pillars representing the diamond and internet industries, IDEX Online is the first on-line international diamond exchange designed specifically for and by professional diamond dealers and jewelers. These interviews were published on September 9th, 2007, from Issue Number 209.

Source: http://www.idexonline.com/portal_FullMazalUbracha.asp?id=28095

Vanguards of Responsibility

By Ronit Scheyer

Although they might not admit to it, these men are at the forefront of a movement that is just starting, a movement seeking to demand accountability from the mining companies whose practices they believe to be harmful, the manufacturers and designers who use the mined materials, the retailers who market them and the consumers who buy them.

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Michael Green, founder and Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Health; and his research director, Caroline Cox, exposed this practice which lead to a new law in California. Lead is not just in children’s jewelry. Federated, Disney and Nordstrom may legally have lead jewelry in their stores until March, 2008.

This interview was conducted by phone and email late in September and October, 2007.

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