I HAVE BUILT MY BUSINESS ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT EVERY PERSON REGARDLESS OF WHERE THEY COME FROM OR WHAT THEY DO DESERVES THE SAME BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS AS YOU AND ME.

I believe the world we live in is one of our own making, all of the good and all of the bad are the result of how we choose to do things. Therefore our actions as individuals have tremendous power to change the world we live in. We can choose to either be intimidated by that responsibility, or empowered by it.

In order to protect vulnerable people we must protect the environment as well.you cannot do one without the other. The earth is home to all of us. When we allow only a small number of people to use up it's resources for their own personal profit, we rob everyone else of the benefits of those resources. Inequality is the inevitable result.

PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS MEANS PRESERVING THE ENVIRONMENT WE ALL SHARE.

Ending poverty could be as simple as making certain that nothing in the supply chains of the things we use every day contributes to or benefits from inequality and exploitation. It sounds daunting or even impossible, but i created my business to prove that not only can this be done, but that it is the best way to make things.

IMAGINATION, CRAFTSMANSHIP AND A TOTAL COMMITMENT TO PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD AND PROTECTING VULNERABLE PEOPLE. THESE ARE MY VALUES WITH NO EXCEPTIONS.

The jewelry industry is dependent on large scale exploitation, outsourcing labor to desperate people and outsourcing environmental destruction to countries where we do not have to face its impacts. It is almost impossible to find materials that do not contribute to environmental or human abuses. The solution is a simple yet enormous change. We need to make our own materials and we need to make them better. This means nothing less than abandoning the entire infrastructure that we currently use to make just about everything and starting from scratch.

When we outsource material production it allows us to abdicate responsibility for the negative consequences caused by there manufacturing.I want to fight poverty. I want to protect the earth. So, I make my own materials.

I use only recycled metals and i cast  them myself. There is enough gold already mined to more than meet the entire worlds demand. One ton of electronic waste has more gold than one ton of ore from the richest producing mine in the world. Mining enough gold for one wedding band produces over twenty tons of toxic chemical waste. To continue to dump tons of mercury, arsenic and chemicals into our oceans and waterways for the sake of higher profit margins is completely unnecessary. A few benefit but we all suffer.

MY GEMS COME FROM SMALL FAMILY OWNED MINES, ROCK COLLECTORS AND MY OWN EXPLORATIONS OF THE NATURAL WORLD.

I only use stones from countries that protect the human rights of there laborers and have strict environmental regulations. They simply come straight from the earth to you, that is my supply chain. Buying gems from suppliers or countries whose workers live in poverty does not benefit those workers. It rewards their oppressors.

If we want to end poverty we must make sure that nothing in the supply chains of the things we buy comes from the hard work of people being payed too little to afford the same basic human necessities we demand for ourselves. There is nothing that needs to be produced that cannot be made by paying people the same wages we earn. To not do so is to deny that they are our equals.

BEAUTY IS AS MUCH WHAT THINGS DO AS HOW THEY APPEAR AND EVEN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN THE WORLD IS NOT WORTH THE UNNECCESSARY SUFFERING OF EVEN ONE PERSON.