135) The U.N. named "worldwide crisis" from gold mining we need to know about with Bob Donofrio
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
kaméa chayne
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Bob Donofrio is the creator of Futura Jewelry, a brand that creates a global curation of iconic jewelry designs using only certified Fairmined Ecological Gold. (At present, it's the only brand to do so.)
After a life-changing discovery a few years ago of the threat that mercury from small-scale gold mining poses to people and our planet, he founded the brand in efforts to support a cleaner future and better social and environmental standards in the industry.
On this podcast episode, Bob sheds light on how mercury emissions has been dubbed a global crisis by the United Nations; why Fairmined Ecological Gold, specifically used in jewelry, is necessary to improve the practices in gold mining (though gold is also used for other things like computer chips); how the creation of beautiful, meaningful, and timeless designs can encourage deeper appreciation for fashion rather than drive overconsumption; and more.
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| 1:09.8 | I needed to do something and jewelry was connected to this, |
| 1:13.9 | because since it's the biggest contributor, |
| 1:17.7 | a single contributor to these mercury emissions, |
| 1:21.0 | and the biggest use of this gold is in the jewelry industry, |
| 1:24.6 | that was the light for me that said, you know what, Bob, you can do something |
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