By Christina Miller This Wednesday May 4th the comment period will end for businesses and citizens to weigh in on extending the current moratorium on new mining claims on national forest and other federal land around the Grand Canyon National Park. While current initiatives target uranium mining, supporting a 20-year moratorium on any new mining

A new and exciting project is emerging in Sri Lanka: it’s called FairGems Process. They are not due to go fully into production until next year. You can download a PDF which goes into detail here and a supply chain diagram here. You can also learn more about them from their websites: http://www.fairgemsprocess.com/index.php/en and http://www.batisseursdespoir.com/index.php/en.htmm

By Rose DeRatto Imagine sitting back and listening to the sound of rushing water, and being surrounded by countless trees. That sounds relaxing, right? It becomes a lot less relaxing when you realize the rushing water is actually a faucet someone forgot to turn off, and the trees are really just trashcans full of barely