Marc Choyt
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Oct 16, 2018
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Ethical Jewelry Expose
Santa Fe, NM October 17, 2018: Reflective Jewelry announces the publication of the Ethical Jewelry Exposé: Lies, Damn Lies, and Conflict Free Diamonds written by its President, Marc Choyt. This is the first Exposé ever written by a jeweller about the jewelry industry. Choyt’s series of articles unmasks specious trade and consumer narratives behind one of the jewelry trade’s hottest trends.
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Marc Choyt
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Sep 21, 2018
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Ethical Jewelry Expose
We begin this Exposé with my call to action, The Ethical Jewelry Manifesto. This is followed by An Ethical Jewelry Parable: The Pure Water People, followed by a brief introduction of small- and large-scale mining issues.
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Marc Choyt
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Sep 21, 2018
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Ethical Jewelry Expose
After graduating from Brown University with a BA in English/Creating writing in 1984, Marc spent two years in Haiti as a volunteer, working in Mother Teresa’s clinics and running an orphanage. Upon his return, he spent a year in meditation retreat at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, followed by five years of teaching English at a Native American school.
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Marc Choyt
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Sep 17, 2018
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Ethical Jewelry Expose
Introduction to the jewelry sector’s “One Language” orthodoxy; the layers of babble, the nesting doll metaphor and examples of how journalists and bloggers manufacture consent based on a narrative that supports the agendas of large-scale mining and retail interests.
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