Reflective Images, a designer jewelry firm, announces the free Ebook for the jewelry trade entitled: THE ETHICAL JEWELRY HANDBOOK: A Resource Guide for the jewelry sector wishing to adopt exceptional standards and radical transparency: Fair, Responsible, Ecological (FRE) System.
The book provides articles and information for those in the jewelry sector wishing to be more ecologically and socially responsible in their business practices. It is also a handbook which explains how any company can implement the FRE System, which offers customers a detailed insight into the supply chain, from the mine to the showroom, for all components of every finished piece of jewelry the company sells.
FRE empowers customers to make decisions based on a product’s: F= Fair labor; R= Social Responsibility and E=Ecological impact. It’s an "open source" model, said Marc Choyt, President of Reflective Images and author of the work. "If the Fair Labeling Organizations (FLO) are analogous to a closed operating system, such as Microsoft, our FRE system is analogous to Linux. Any jewelry company can make it their own,” said Choyt.
Marc Choyt writes about ethical jewelry issues at www.fairjewelry.org/.
I have been learning more about ethical jewelry lately and find the topic fascinating. I started telling my students more about it in my newsletters. I look forward to learning more from this handbook resource. Thanks!
Posted by: Jewelry Making | April 07, 2008 at 10:05 AM