The most useful business book I have come across since Jim Collins’ “Good to Great” is “Blue Ocean Strategy”, by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. Blue Ocean strategy is about breaking through structures that primarily exist in how you perceive your company and the market.

Here are a few gem and mining sources which are working toward fair trade or already operating on that basis. There are many companies in the firstworld that are producing environmentally responsible gems, but I focus here

Here you will find links to people in the trade doing Outstanding Work in their field. To add your company, send us an email telling us what you are doing in your field to support Fair Trade, Fair Trade Jewelry, Socially Responsible Business and Eco-Friendly Manufacturing.