Introduzione: We now return back to Greenland, where the Inuits represented by the 16th August Union, continue in their negotiations with the Bureau of Mining and Petroleum (BMP). Despite the advent of the new home rule government, and the optimism presented in early posts, The BMP continue to deny Inuit small scale mining their right

Introduzione: Greg Valerio, a prominent activist in the fair trade jewelry movement, has officially resigned from his company. Freed from the business he founded, he intends to focus on the fair trade jewelry issues exclusively. See his resignation letter below. Greg is also a staff writer for fairjewelry.org. ~ Marc Choyt, Publisher I am writing

~ By Greg Valerio, Staff Writer, Fairjewelry.org August & Settembre 2009 I am writing to invite you to take part in a secure online survey entitled ‘fairtrade and fairmined gold market survey’. This survey has been commissioned by the Fairtrade Foundation in London aimed at gaining a greater level of understanding into the UK jewellery