Visit our store the Sage & the Butterfly, located at the Village Lane, nestled in the forest in the beautiful mountain town of Idyllwild, California. the Sage & the Butterfly is an extension of our ORG by vio brand and online shop.  At the Sage & the Butterfly you will find unique treasures from our ORG by vio boho jewelry collection handmade by Amazon rainforest artisans, handcrafted accessories and men’s razors by Dylan Farnham of Sage Blades, Violeta Villacorta handmade accessories and custom-made garments, among other lines by designers and artisans that we know and love. Like the Sage & the Butterfly on Facebook. We look forward to seeing you!

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ORG by vio is working with Yanesha artisans on a joint bio jewelry project with PaTS (Partnerships and Technology for Sustainability) organization and funded by IICA-Finland (Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture).

In this video Marilu talks about how she never imagined to be sculpting wood into jewelry. More on the Yanesha artisans and community here. See the Yanesha collection here.

Using managed forest wood, which has been carefully selected, to create added value products like jewelry, furniture, bowls, among other items, helps generate about $2,000 per tree instead of selling a tree for a mere $100 for its wood alone. This is more beneficial to the artisans and community, as well as helps protect the rainforest from clear-cutting.

ORG by vio is working with Yanesha artisans on a joint bio jewelry project with PaTS (Partnerships and Technology for Sustainability) organization and funded by IICA-Finland (Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture).

In this video Yanesha artisans go deep into the forest to collect wood from managed forests to make jewelry, and bring out bowls made for PaTS. The artisans also collect branches and unsused wood recycled from the production of bowls and furniture.

Using managed forest wood, which has been carefully selected, to create added value products like jewelry, furniture, bowls, among other items, helps generate about $2,000 per tree instead of selling a tree for a mere $100 for its wood alone. This is more beneficial to the artisans and community, as well as helps protect the rainforest from clear-cutting.

More on the Yanesha artisans and community here. See the Yanesha collection here.

Donna De Lory’s new album The Unchanging is one of the most deeply personal artistic statements in her deep catalog of mantra music classics. But it resonates on a universal level as well, bathing the listener in chilled out electronic textures, world flavors, sonorous string arrangements, tender balladry and lyrics that touch on the heart’s eternal truths. And, as always, Donna’s sublime voice has the power to lift us all into realms of pure bliss.

Donna came by our booth in Los Angeles a couple of years ago and since then, she has become a loved client who owns a number of ORG by vio boho jewelry. We are pleased that she chose ORG by vio jewelry for The Unchanging music video, where she wears the Amazon Traditional Necklace and the Nuwa Belt. We invite you to have a listen. Enjoy the video!

Help generate jobs and establish a sustainable future for this women’s artisan cooperative and their community today at  http://groundworkopportunities.org/ideas/provide-market-access-to-peruvian-artisans or via my GO Champion campaign at http://groundworkopportunities.org/champions/violetav68 – Vio

Bringing Internet to women artisans’ organization AMARNO and our community will facilitate overcoming the main barrier in communications with the outside world and will allow access to markets that ensure income and sustainable development for our families in Urakuza. It will support our community’s economic and sustainable future by creating an alternative to the sale of rainforest trees. This Internet system will also serve the wider community by providing access to other community organizations, members and leaders, school teachers and students.

The beautiful original creations of the Awajun & Ashaninka artisans and ORG by vio Boho Jewelry designs at Vivienne Westwood Gold Label Fall 2014-15 Paris Show. Jewelry available at www.orgbyvio.com – Supporting Amazon artisans, protecting the rainforest.

This Vivienne Westwood collection is inspired both by the Ashaninka and the Awajun people. It also features some of the designs created by designer Violeta Villacorta for ORG by vio, which works in partnership with Awajun artisans who have made the jewelry worn in Vivienne Westwood fashion show featured here. ORG by vio also sells the Cushma tunics – worn by Vivienne Westwood and her husband Andreas at the end – via partner organization Ecotribal, who directly works with the Ashaninka. We are delighted Vivienne Westwood has featured the Awajun & Ashaninka culture and wears!!

Thank you, for featuring the Amazon artisans’ work, Vivienne Westwood!

See photos and lookbook.

Vivienne Westwood gets a shamanic healing by Ashaninka healer while wearing a Cushma tunic. Deep in Forests partner Dilwyn Jenkins of Ecotribal traveled with designer Vivienne Westwood and Cool Earth to the Ashaninka community. Organic cotton is grown and woven into beautiful patterns to make Cushma tunics and shoulder bags by the Ashaninka in the Peruvian Amazon. Get your Ashaninka Cushma here.

Organic cotton is grown and woven into beautiful patterns to make Cushma tunics and shoulder bags by the Ashaninka in the Peruvian Amazon. Get your Ashaninka Cushma here.

The AMARNO artisans are spearheading a project to install internet to help their community’s sustainable future by creating an alternative to the sale of rainforest trees. ORG by vio has been working with the talented Awajún women artisans that handcraft some of the beautiful jewelry and accessories in our shop, to help their families and community. The AMARNO artisans have partnered with ORG by vio, Groundwork Opportunities organization and Ecotribal to fundraise for the AMARNO Internet Project.

Please share with your family and friends and consider giving at ORG by vio’s Violeta Villacorta Champion page in support of the AMARNO Internet Project at Groundowork Opportunities organization. Contributing through here will help us tally donations that come from you through this fundraising page.

We also invite you to create your own Champion page to raise funds for this cause through your network at Groundwork Opportunities AMARNO Satnet Project’s fundraising page…Just click on the “Fundraise for this Idea” button. It’s a simple process.

100% of all tax-deductible donations will go directly to this cause. Together we can make this happen!

ORG by vio está trabajando con artesanos Yanesha en el proyecto de bio joyería en conjunto con la organización PaTS (Partnerships and Technology for Sustainability) y financiada por IICA-Finlandia (Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture). Aquí compartimos un video presentando a artesanas y el fundador de PaTS Jerónimo Cooklin.

For English subtitles watch this version.