GLOBALIZATION & SOURCING

"Sourcing" (knowing where and how, and from whom your products come), Raw Materials, Food, Coffee, Extractive Industries (mining, growing, logging, etc.), Jewelry, Environment, International, Local, Globalization, Labor, Wage Economies of Scale, Distribution of Wealth, Equity, Americanism.

After we chose Globalization & Sourcing as our next area of interest, Roundtable member, Martin Taber, promised to send us a slate of resources so we might get ourselves ready to discuss the topic at the greatest possible depth, given varying time to prepare. Martin frames the subject area as "the personal politics of consumption and materials sourcing" and offers the following beginnings:

Jewelry materials sourcing
http://www.ethicalmetalsmiths.org/
http://ethicalmetalsmiths.org/blog/2013/a-call-to-jewelers-artists-and-artisans-part-1-of-3-makers-of-things-great-and-small/
http://www.ethicalmetalsmiths.org/info-library/news/jewelers-direct-source-fairmined-gold-/
http://blog.gregvalerio.com/
http://www.ethicalmetalsmiths.org/info-library/news/understanding-fairtrade-gold-systems/

Food sourcing issues
http://www.organicconsumers.org/
http://www.slowfoodusa.org/
http://www.localharvest.org/csa/
https://edibleschoolyard.org/
https://edibleschoolyard.org/

Textile sourcing
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/toxics/water/detox/

Building materials sourcing
http://www.usgbc.org/

Health and beauty materials sourcing
http://www.cosmeticsbusiness.com/technical/article_page/Ingredients__agricultural_sourcing/60727

General
http://www.globalgreen.org/

Martin Taber is owner and President of Taber Studios, and President of the Ethical Metalsmiths Board of Directors.

What other resources would you like to suggest?

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With gratitude for your valuable time and contributions of all kinds,

Brandon

Brandon writing.

Everyone introduced themselves and we welcomed Jennifer Diaz-Zamora Laurent Colvin Martin Taber Sergio Diaz-Zamora.

For our next session, Sunday, April 12th, from 5-8pm, we opted to consider:

HEALTH & ADVERTISING: Flu, Public Health, Media, Advertising, messaging, For Profit Health Insurance Companies, "Single Payer", Who Gets Paid?, more...

I agreed to provide my notes to our email group, but would like to ask somebody else to act as secretary at our next meeting. That volunteer would be responsible for taking their own notes and sending them to the list, hopefully in order to encourage our exchange of ideas to continue.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Nina Hatfield

Date: Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:03 AM

Subject: Re: Culturesmith Roundtable follow-up 201402

Hello All,

I am sorry I will not be able to join you for this next round. Hopefully three will be my magic number!

I would like to suggest as a resource: fibershed, which is a local organization actively engaged in re-imagining and establishing sustainable fiber processes and networks, from farm to wearer. I found out about them through the founder's book: Harvesting Color: How to Find Plants and Make Natural Dyes.

http://www.fibershed.com/

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10665294-harvesting-color

All my best,

Nina Hatfield

--Brandon WilliamsCraig.....2014-04-13 14:30:10 +0000