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Your top five questions about lab-created diamonds

Your top five questions about lab-created diamonds

by Melinda Bailey | Nov 25, 2019 | Diamonds and Other Gemstones, Environmental, Ethical Jewellery Issues, Ideas, Industry, Lab-grown Diamond

If you are in the market for a diamond engagement ring (or other diamond jewellery), the option of buying lab-created diamonds may be on your radar. Before about 2017 they barely rated a mention, but now in the early 2020s they’re commonplace in the mainstream...
“Ethical Jewellery” – what does that even mean?

“Ethical Jewellery” – what does that even mean?

by Benn Harvey-Walker | Oct 23, 2019 | Environmental, Ethical Jewellery Issues, Ideas, Industry

Over the past couple of decades, we’ve witnessed what might be described as a tectonic shift in consumer’s attitudes towards concepts like sustainability, environmental responsibility, human rights, Fair Trade and the like. Let’s face it, last century hardly anyone...
Recycle | Re-make | Repair | Re-use – Jewellery and the Circular Economy

Recycle | Re-make | Repair | Re-use – Jewellery and the Circular Economy

by Benn Harvey-Walker | Sep 12, 2019 | Advice, Diamonds and Other Gemstones, Environmental, Ethical Jewellery Issues, Ideas, Trends

If you’re a fan of the circular economy philosophy, when it comes to jewellery, you might be wondering how you can participate.The idea behind a circular economy is all about creating closed loops where both waste and new inputs are minimised and existing...
The diamond world is at war. Whose side are you on?

The diamond world is at war. Whose side are you on?

by Benn Harvey-Walker | Aug 16, 2019 | Advice, Diamonds and Other Gemstones, Environmental, Ethical Jewellery Issues, Industry, Lab-grown Diamond

As demand slumps and prices drop, the diamond industry looks to be heading into a crisis phase — at least that’s what industry insiders are saying. Couple that with increasing competition between mine-origin and lab-created producers and you have a recipe for...
Diamonds ain’t diamonds

Diamonds ain’t diamonds

by Benn Harvey-Walker | May 23, 2019 | Advice, Diamonds and Other Gemstones, Environmental, Ethical Jewellery Issues, Fair Trade, Industry, Lab-grown Diamond

The rise and rise of laboratory grown diamonds has ramped up competition in the jewellery industry. It has launched a war of words where each side of the natural vs man-made debate is using Climate Change as a club to beat each other about the head.Meanwhile consumers...
Cosmetics, Netflix and Climate Change – why is it so hard to do the right thing?

Cosmetics, Netflix and Climate Change – why is it so hard to do the right thing?

by Benn Harvey-Walker | May 15, 2019 | Advice, Environmental, Ethical Jewellery Issues, Industry

Every morning Melinda and I go for a walk around the neighbourhood to get some exercise and, more importantly, to talk.We discuss all kinds of things. We talk about things that affect us directly, and we talk about a bunch of much bigger issues. Things relating to the...
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