{"id":34,"date":"2008-07-16T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherskowoodjewelry.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2008\/07\/16\/no-dirty-gold-campaign-ethical-metalsmiths\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T13:44:00","slug":"no-dirty-gold-campaign-ethical-metalsmiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/2008\/07\/16\/no-dirty-gold-campaign-ethical-metalsmiths\/","title":{"rendered":"No Dirty Gold Campaign + Ethical Metalsmiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_9epDco86QeY\/SH37QQ8hq6I\/AAAAAAAAAQw\/t41JvrUPnz8\/s1600-h\/Photo+31.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_9epDco86QeY\/SH37QQ8hq6I\/AAAAAAAAAQw\/t41JvrUPnz8\/s200\/Photo+31.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nodirtygold.org\/\">No Dirty Gold<\/a> campaign was started by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthworksaction.org\/\">EARTHWORKS<\/a>, &#8220;a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the destructive impacts of mineral development, in the U.S. and worldwide. EARTHWORKS stands for clean water, healthy communities and corporate accountability.  We&#8217;re working for solutions that protect the earth&#8217;s resources and communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The No Dirty Gold <\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial\">campaign has been established to raise awareness among consumers, retailers and makers of jewelry about the health and environmental impacts of mining metals used in all industries- tin (food cans), aluminum (soda cans), gold and silver (jewelry + electronics) etc.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Quick facts from the No Dirty Gold campaign website:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">About Mining:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A single gold ring leaves in its wake at least 20 tons of mine waste.<\/li>\n<li>Open-pit gold mines essentially obliterate the landscape, opening up vast craters, flattening or even inverting mountaintops, and producing 8 to 10 times more waste than underground mining.<\/li>\n<li>Cyanide is used by large mining operations to separate gold from ore. Cyanide pollution is a major concern. A rice-grain sized dose of cyanide can be fatal to humans; concentrations of 1 microgram (one-millionth of a gram) per liter of water can be fatal to fish.<\/li>\n<li>Metals mining employs just 0.09 percent of the global workforce but consumes as much as 10 percent of world energy.<\/li>\n<li>Between 1995 and 2015, approximately half the gold produced worldwide has or will come from indigenous peoples&#8217; lands.<\/li>\n<li>Metals mining is the number one toxic polluter in the United States, responsible for 89% of arsenic releases, 85% of mercury releases, and 84% of lead releases in 2004.<\/li>\n<li>The world&#8217;s largest open pit, the Bingham Canyon mine in Utah, is visible to astronauts from outer space. It measures 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) deep and 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) across.<\/li>\n<li>120,000 tons of toxic waste spilled from the Baia Mare gold mine in Romania in 2000, contaminating the drinking water of 2.5 million people and killing 1,200 tons of fish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/p>\n<p>About the U.S. Jewelry Market:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 80 percent of gold in the U.S. is used to make jewelry. <\/li>\n<li>U.S. gold jewelry sales were an estimated $19 billion in 2006, accounting for 31 percent of the $62 billion U.S. jewelry market. <\/li>\n<li>Nearly half of all people surveyed by the Jewelry Consumer Opinion Council call jewelry their favorite Valentine&#8217;s Day gift. <\/li>\n<li>Jewelry is among the most popular Valentine&#8217;s Day gifts, following cards and candy. 28 percent of shoppers gave a gift of jewelry last Valentine&#8217;s Day. <\/li>\n<li>Eight of the top ten U.S. jewelry retail companies (by sales) have endorsed the No Dirty Gold campaign&#8217;s Golden Rules. These companies are: Wal-Mart, Sterling, Zale Corp., QVC, Tiffany &amp; Co., Helzberg Diamonds, and Fred Meyer Jewelers and J.C. Penney. <\/li>\n<li>The companies who have endorsed the Golden Rules represent about $14.5 billion in jewelry sales, or 23 percent of the U.S. jewelry market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please visit the No Dirty Gold and EARTHWORKS website to read the valuable information you need to know before you make your next jewelry purchase, jewelry supply purchase or even open your next tin of food. Also please sign their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nodirtygold.org\/take_action.cfm\">campaign pledge<\/a>. Everyone knows about blood diamonds we should now be asking what we can do and how to help our jewelers to obtain metal more responsibly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">More info:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalmetalsmiths.org\/index.html\">Ethical Metalsmiths<\/a> was started by metalsmiths and Society of North American Goldsmith members Susan Kingley and Christina Tatiana Miller. Ethical Metalsmiths have organised jewelry exhibitions such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalmetalsmiths.org\/CGE_Intro.html\">&#8216;Composting Good and Evil&#8217;<\/a> and projects such as  <a href=\"http:\/\/radicaljewelrymakeover.blogspot.com\/\">&#8216;Radical Jewelry Makeover&#8217;<\/a> to raise awareness about mining practices and their impact on our environment.<\/p>\n<p>Please show your support &#8211; Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No Dirty Gold campaign was started by EARTHWORKS, &#8220;a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the destructive impacts of mineral development, in the U.S. and worldwide. EARTHWORKS stands for clean water, healthy communities and corporate accountability. 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