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- Profession / role:
- Fair Trade Jeweller
- Website (if you have one):
- www.gregvalerio.com
- My primary role in relation to fashion is:
- Tutor, Consultant
- I am looking to discover or buy
- Other jewellers who wish to develop traceable supply chains and learn how to be a fair trade jeweller and/or designers
- About me / About business or organisation:
- My background is in human rights and fair trade education. Over the last 15 years I have focused on developing fully traceable supply chains in gold, diamonds and gemstones through CRED Jewellery. I have been foundational in the development of the Fairtrade Gold standard with FLO and ARM. My personal desire is to work with young designers to facilitate their working in certified and traceable materials and to drive the human rights and environmental justice message and practice into the heart of the Jewellery industry.
- Career history / Company history:
- 1991 started CRED as a development education charity.
1996 started CRED Jewellery the original fair trade fine jeweller.
1998 Campaign t-shirts with Katharine Hamnett
2003 published "Towards and Ethical Jewellery Business'
2004 Linked with Oro Verde to retail the UK & Europes first fully traceable certified gold wedding rings.
2005 Co founded The Alliance for Responsible Mining.
2009 Left CRED to focus on developing & facilitating the broader fair trade & ethical jewellery movement.
Currently working with Fairtrade Foundation London on the launch of Fairtrade Gold to the UK and global market.
Greg Valerio's Blog
Kamoka Pearls - The riches of the sea
Posted on April 14, 2010 at 13:32 0 Comments 0 Likes
Kamoka Pearls – The riches of the sea.
The Pearl farm at sunset
Established in 1991 Kamoka Pearls is built on two basic principles. Ecological and social responsibility. It was clear to me just talking with Josh at the Tuscon Gem Fair this year that he and…
ContinueApartheid Ruby of Greenland
Posted on March 10, 2010 at 13:30 0 Comments 0 Likes
- Surely this cannot be, the word Apartheid is a strong word to apply to such a benign idea as Ruby from Greenland. Yet unfortunately and to the shame of Denmark and Greenland this is exactly what is happening.
Inuit and Greenlanders are being intentionally marginalised from
prospecting, owning and selling ruby from the very island that is…
Truth or Dare - The legacy of Gold Mining...
Posted on February 19, 2010 at 9:51 0 Comments 0 Likes
Jewellers who are rightly concerned about the providence of their raw materials will no doubt be concerned to have read at the beginning
of the year another account of an irresponsible Canadian gold mining
company. Goldcorp Group has been accused by CAFOD the UK Catholic Aid
agency of polluting the local river systems of the Siria Valley.
To quickly recap in September 2008 CAFOD found clear evidence of
contamination of water sources at a Goldcorp mine…
The Virtuous Jewellery Circle
Posted on February 2, 2010 at 16:31 0 Comments 0 Likes
Some have argued that it is not the responsibility of the jeweller to engage in the many complex issues that the long and complicated supply chains throw up. Yet as we all know, first through the impact that 'conflict… Continue
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