Jewelry cultivates compassion, love, and fortifies our relationships. Gold that brings us joy and happiness may be produced using toxic mercury. Often inadvertent mercury pollution from ASGM is poisoning our air, water, and land.
BLOG | Gold industry: Are your material sourcing practices supporting your sustainability claims? Extraordinary claims requiere extraordinary evidence.
#Sustainability#EthicalSourcing#ASM
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Artisanal and small-scale gold mining is often a miner's only opportunity to earn enough money to consistently provide for themselves and any dependents. Miners are currently trading their long term health for short term survival when using mercury to concentrate our gold.
BLOG | Small-scale mining organizations face different challenges in their path of ethical mining, including achieving the Fairmined certification.
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#EthicalMining#ResponsibleSourcing#ASM
3 ways everyone - yes, everyone - can support ethical fashion:
1) Refuse to diminish the value of sewing labor by calling things “overpriced” simply because you can’t afford them.
2) Buy fewer clothes/wear things until they’re worn out.
3) Properly take care of your clothes.
“We need to stop focusing on dates and numbers and actually accept and acknowledge the fact that we need to reduce our emissions right now. We can talk about 2030 or 2040 as much as we want. But it is what we are doing now that really matters."
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253 bills across 43 states have been introduced to restrict voting access, despite little evidence of voter fraud. We have had 7 mass shootings in the last week and only offer thoughts and prayers. In America, Black/brown people voting is considered more dangerous than guns.
Today is #IntlForestDay
We’re loosing 10 million acres of forest every year, at a time when we need to maximise every possible carbon sink.
In some places planting trees is a great solution but given our timeframe the most effective way is to protect and rewild existing forests.
Capitalist terms, translated
Unpaid internship: volunteering
Gig economy: pre-1910 labor rights
Flexible hours: part-time and no benefits
Hustle/side-gig: 2nd job needed to survive
We're like a family: we treat you like a child
Make great tips: legal min wage is $2.13/hour
It's getting to that time of year again when brand clamber to be seen as feminist. We think there's any easier way to show you care. As 90% of garments workers globally are women, how about brands pay living wages and commit to good working conditions?
#InternationalWomensDay