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Making Trouble
Greg Valerio
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Description for Making Trouble
Paperback. The dramatic story of Greg Valerio and his fight for just jewellery. Num Pages: 208 pages, Colour and b&w photographs. BIC Classification: BGBA; KNAT; KND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 236.
"Valerio, you're a natural born trouble-maker. Just make sure you make trouble for the right reasons." Expelled from secondary school with these words ringing in his ears, it took Greg Valerio a little while to find the right cause to devote his trouble-making skills to - but eventually he found it. Fighting to apply fair trade standards to the jewellery business has brought him up against an industry riddled with problems. In the last fifteen years he has criss-crossed the globe, from the arctic circle of Greenland, alluvial diamond fields of Sierra Leone and equatorial gold rich rainforests of South ... Read more
"Valerio, you're a natural born trouble-maker. Just make sure you make trouble for the right reasons." Expelled from secondary school with these words ringing in his ears, it took Greg Valerio a little while to find the right cause to devote his trouble-making skills to - but eventually he found it. Fighting to apply fair trade standards to the jewellery business has brought him up against an industry riddled with problems. In the last fifteen years he has criss-crossed the globe, from the arctic circle of Greenland, alluvial diamond fields of Sierra Leone and equatorial gold rich rainforests of South ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lion Hudson Plc United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
233g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745956039
SKU
V9780745956039
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Greg Valerio
Greg Valerio is the founder of CRED Jewellery and co-founder of Fair Jewellery Action. After a long but successful campaign to produce fairly traded gold, he won the Global Campaigner Observer Ethical Awards for 2011. He is currently working with Fairtrade International (FLO) co-ordinating their International Fairtrade Gold programme, with Peace Direct on a Peace Gold programme in the Democratic ... Read more
Reviews for Making Trouble
“Few can claim to have precipitated fundamental change in the jewellery business, but Greg Valerio is one of those who can.”
Gaetano Cavalieri – President of The World Jewellery Confederation “Greg Valerio unveils the ugliness of the beauty business. His truth has a sting, but he also has an unflinching, contagious hope that a better world is possible.” ... Read more
Gaetano Cavalieri – President of The World Jewellery Confederation “Greg Valerio unveils the ugliness of the beauty business. His truth has a sting, but he also has an unflinching, contagious hope that a better world is possible.” ... Read more