FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Santa Fe, New Mexico (November 11, 2010) Exquisite Celtic designer jewelry made with 100% recycled precious metals, and available with fair trade gemstones, is now available online for the holiday season. The new ecommerce platform, www.celticjewelry.com, features over 600 designs, including 100 new Celtic jewelry styles hand made by artisans at Reflective

Introduction: This is an ongoing documentation of a series of dialogs between members of our Manufacturing Group, charged with the task of developing exceptional standards for jewelry manufacturing. Follow this link for full review of past discussions, including the first, second and third post on transparency. The entire principles and standards document can be in

Introduction: A column by Nicholas Kristof, of the New York Times questions whether fair trade does more harm than good. Kristof doesn’t like sweatshops, but he puts for the perspective that creating more jobs would better serve the poor people in the developing world than higher paying, fair trade jobs. This resulted in an email