{"id":2634,"date":"2008-07-15T08:48:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T07:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/wal-mart-jewelry-goes-green\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T12:43:17","slug":"wal-mart-jewelry-goes-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/wal-mart-jewelry-goes-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Jewelry Goes Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i24.ebayimg.com\/01\/i\/05\/6d\/43\/32_1_b.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"080723_-wal-mart.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/080723_-wal-mart.jpg\" title=\"080723_-wal-mart.jpg\" alt=\"080723_-wal-mart.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s official: \u201cgreen\u201d jewelry has hit the mainstream.  Wal-Mart Stores <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/lifestyleMolt\/idUSN1435036120080715\" title=\"Reuters on Wal-Mart Love. Earth\" target=\"_blank\">announced today<\/a> that it will stock a new brand of sustainable jewelry that will be tracked from mine to market. The new exclusive <a href=\"http:\/\/walmartstores.com\/Sustainability\/8454.aspx\" title=\"Wal-Mart Love, Earth brand\" target=\"_blank\">Love, Earth brand<\/a>, which includes a $69 sterling silver necklace and $48 hoop earrings, will be sold in Wal-Mart, Sam\u2019s Club, and online. A customer who buys the jewelry can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loveearthinfo.com\/home.htm\" title=\"Love, Earth\" target=\"_blank\">www.loveearthinfo.com<\/a> to see where their particular piece of jewelry was mined and learn about the suppliers\u2019 environmental programs. To make this program a reality, Wal-Mart is working with United States metal mines: a first. Previous environmental brands have used recycled precious metals. The project partners include global mining giant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riotinto.com\/media\/5157_7914.asp\" title=\"Rio Tinto Partners with Wal-Mart\" target=\"_blank\">Rio Tinto<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmont.com\/en\/pdf\/Newmont_Partnership_071508.pdf\" title=\"Newmont Mining partners with Wal-Mart\" target=\"_blank\">Newmont Mining Corporation<\/a>, and Aurafin, a jewelry distributor that is part of the Richline Group. The project will initially focus on gold and silver jewelry using metal from Rio Tinto\u2019s Kennecott Utah Copper Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah, the largest man-made excavation in the world. Image source : ebayimg.com&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.modernjeweler.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/wal-mart-jewelry-goes-green\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: USA<\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | Company: <\/span><font class=\"tdtext\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=4\">Wal-Mart<\/a><\/font><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2008\/03\/13\/walmart-we-are-not-green\/?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">Modern Jewelry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official: \u201cgreen\u201d jewelry has hit the mainstream. Wal-Mart Stores announced today that it will stock a new brand of sustainable jewelry that will be tracked from mine to market. The new exclusive Love, Earth brand, which includes a $69 sterling silver necklace and $48 hoop earrings, will be sold in Wal-Mart, Sam\u2019s Club, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-wal-mart","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}