Greg Valerio Launches His Book: Creare problemi: Fighting for Fair Trade Jewellery
“Valerio, you’re a natural born trouble-maker. Just make sure you make trouble for the right reasons.”GREG VALERIO was expelled from secondary school with these words ringing in his ears.
It took a little while to find the right cause, but eventually he took on the international jewellery industry– notorious for its blood diamonds, worker exploitation, and endemic corruption.
For fifteen years Greg criss-crossed the globe striving to apply fair trade standards to the jewellery business. Dal circolo polare artico, attraverso i campi di diamanti della Sierra Leone nella Sudamericana foresta pluviale, he has fought to give the consumer an ethically pure piece of jewellery, e per premiare i suoi produttori con un salario equo e buone condizioni di lavoro.
Lungo il percorso, he has exposed the jewellery industry’s dirty secrets: inquinamento, lavoro minorile, delinquenza, sfruttamento, pratiche di lavoro pericolose, e più.
“For me,” said Valerio, “good campaigning meant three simple things: good education that leads to positive action, and then a change in lifestyle that cements campaigning into daily living.”
GREG VALERIO is a fair trade jeweller with a background in human rights and environmental advocacy. He is the founder of CRED Jewellery and co-founder of Fair Jewellery Action. He was named The Observer Ethical Awards Campaigner of the Year in 2011. He was also voted by The Retail Jeweller 2011 as one of the Top 100 innovators in the UK Jewellery Industry.
Maverick, dolore nel culo, imprenditore sociale, dalla scatola, radicale, passionale, emotivo, ingestibile, diretto, al punto, ventata di aria fresca, ribelle, visionario, trasandato, non-conformista, si presenta come un barbone, economic terrorist and dangerous bastard have all been used to describe Greg and his commitment to human rights, ecological responsibility and fair trade in the jewellery sector.
Greg is currently working with FAIRTRADE International co-ordinating their International Gold programme and Peace Direct in eastern Congo to support the establishment of a Peace Gold programme with ex-combatants.
He is a regular columnist for The National Association of Goldsmiths Jewellery Magazine, writer, public speaker on Ethics in Jewellery. He initiated and currently serves on the British Jewellers Association and National Association of Goldsmiths ethics working group. He acts as an adviser to the Diamond Development Initiative.
"Ci leviamo in piedi sulle spalle dei giganti senza voce che ungere i nostri rubini, zaffiri, oro, argento, e diamanti con il sudore nati dal loro sfruttamento, e noi casualmente finta che non esistono,"Ha detto.
Creare problemi: LOTTA PER IL COMMERCIO EQUO E SOLIDALE GIOIELLI è Greg di ispirazione, divertente, scioccante, grave, e l'autobiografia commovente che provoca OUTRAGE, and makes you THINK about any jewellery purchase you might have made but also what must be DONE. Soprattutto, è la storia avvincente di una vita impressionante dell'uomo e del lavoro.
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