Fair Trade Jewelry

Marc Choyt, the author of this blog, is interviewed by Rapaport News TV. See this podcast and hear Marc speak on issues of fair trade and ecologically responsible jewelry!!!

Marc Choyt
President of Reflective Images

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My vision for FairJewelry.Org as an outpost for the outcast views of the Jewelry Industry’s “Moral Minority.”

I worked on this site for six weeks, mainly writing articles and supporting our web development team. My company runs five websites, two of which are blogs. The JCK Vegas show was the deadline and we launched publicly May 28 with a press release. Google approves of this website. [Read more →]

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Greg Valerio has been one of the pioneers in the fair trade, ecologically responsible movement in the jewelry industry. He is the founding director of CRED Jewellery (www.credjewellery.com) and was one of the founding members of the Association of Responsible Mining (ARM). This development program, working, in coordination with the European based Fair Trade Labeling Organization, to bring “green gold” that is fair trade produced directly to the market. He is based in the UK, where he has a store that sells silver, gold, platinum and diamond jewellery that is marketed around socially and environmentally responsible values. They specialize in wedding jewellery.

Greg Valerio of CRED Jewellers

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MJSA Supports Fair Trade. Allen supports the idea of a fair trade conference.

Rio Grande is one of the top three wholesale suppliers to the jewelry industry. Located in Albuquerque NM, they have an excellent reputation in the community and the trade. Allen is chairman of the company. We spoke for a few minutes recently

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Truly Ethically Mined Diamonds From Africa Are Available Now!

A Swiss company with a radical business model implements multiple fair trade principals bringing us the most responsibly sourced diamonds from Africa in the industry.

Many people do not want to buy African diamonds because the Kimberly Process has so many holes in it. Yet we may be are reluctant to purchase only Canadian or Russian because legitimate African diamonds are a critical part of many economies. By supporting

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The leading industry eco-supplier announces their new brand: Harmony Metals and Gems, calls for a unification of eco and fair trade efforts and offers to host a meeting or share that responsibility with other companies.

Torry Hoover

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“How the Making of Your Jewelry Affects Your Feelings While Wearing It”

In ancient times, jewelry was considered a talisman, a sacred object of power imbued with the energy of the earth, the maker and the divine. These days, we tend to dismiss these notions as “primitive” or irrelevant. We have assumed an empirical, scientific world view based on logic and Cartesian empiricism.

Well ladies and gentlemen walking up the aisle, it’s time to put away your abacuses and slide rulers and start choosing your jewelry using a new understanding of physics!

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What’s happening with the cutting edge of Fair Trade jewelry? I was on the panel of the meeting at the JCK Show in Las Vegas, sponsored by the Rapaport Group.

Last year, the meeting had a lot more people and press, but perhaps that was in part because

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I just returned from the Jewelers’ Circular Keystone (JCK) Show, the largest, most important jewelry trade event in the US.

Apart from those who sought me out because of my press release, not one jeweler who walked by my booth even raised the issue of

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