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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

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

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 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.

 

Episode notes: www.greendreamer.com/135

Support the show: www.patreon.com/greendreamer

Instagram: www.instagram.com/greendreamerpodcast

Transcript

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podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those

0:13.7

considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question.

0:22.3

So if you value and believe in our work, this is our call out.

0:26.8

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0:30.7

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0:37.3

camaya.substack.com or through a one-time

0:40.4

donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here and we're so

0:47.6

grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us.

0:53.8

I needed to do something and jewelry was connected to this,

0:58.0

because since it's the biggest contributor,

1:02.0

the single contributor to these mercury emissions,

1:05.0

and the biggest use of this gold is in the jewelry industry,

1:09.0

that was the light for me that said, you know what, Bob,

1:12.4

you can do something about this.

1:16.0

Why might we need to help address mercury emissions and poisoning, specifically through gold

1:20.6

jewelry?

1:22.0

And why is the use of recycled gold not able to help address the environmental impacts present

1:26.8

within the industry.

1:28.7

That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today. Green Dreamer is supported by our

1:33.0

listener patrons and our sponsor, Bunz, a community where people meet every day to trade things

1:37.9

like clothing, houseplants, furniture, and art. You can check it out first by downloading the

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