In early October, I attended roundtable meetings in London that brought together miners, and a select group of Fairtrade jewelers, manufacturers and trade organizations from the EU, USA and Switzerland. We were there to review changes designed to maximize the commercial opportunities for Fairtrade gold and streamline the Fairtrade gold program. Harriet Lamb, CEO

Introduzione: As this press release shows, the Alliance for Responsible Mining and Ethical Metalsmiths with their supporting consortium of Jeweler continue to make excellent progress with their pioneering work in the North American market. Especially heartening was this article which mentioned their efforts in this blog covering illegal Peruvian mining on the New Yorker magazine

By Gabriel Lafitte Gabriel Lafitte’s new book: Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World, is a revelation of China’s hunger for Tibetan natural resources, and of the strong preference of Tibetan communities to protect their sacred mountains, pilgrimage circuits and resource patrimony, even, if necessary, with their lives. In a