OZROX

 

Made with pride in Australia and New Zealand, Touchstone Pendants are all individually carved from naturally formed beach pebbles.

Our 'Rock Artists' wander for miles along wild and windswept beaches, searching for the perfect shape and colour to become an OZROX pendant.

Every pebble is unique, and because the styles we carve are always evolving and changing, this means no two pendants are ever the same.

 

SUGGEST A STYLE

Our artists are free to put just about any image they like on a pendant, except promotional material or logos etc.

We can't promise that any idea will make it into production, but if you have an idea for a style you would like to see emerge you can always make a suggestion. Just send a small black and white image here, if your idea makes it into our range you will recieve a free pendant.

 

AUSTRALIAN DIAMONDS

The diamond set version of our works feature 100% Aussie Diamonds.

 

GIVING BACK TO THE EARTH

Our rainforests are home to some of the most fragile and beautiful creatures on Earth, and every year we seem to feel more powerless to prevent their habitat from shrinking.

But it is not too late. The one gift we can all offer is awareness, and an ongoing quest to join others to find all those small things which together make a big difference.

OZROX is part of a bigger vision.

We are at first committed to planting a rainforest tree for every item purchased. Once we get going however, our aim is also to be able to sponsor the Taronga Foundation - where every donation of $5,000 we make is matched by $15,000 from the NSW State Government, for the protection of critically endangered species.

For details and updates of progress, or to leave us a comment, see our regularly updated blog page - www.ozroxearth.wordpress.com

We directly support - www.rainforestrescue.org.au

 

RETAIL SUPPORT

To contact us about stocking OZROX Touchstone Pendants in your retail store, or if you are interested in becoming a market stall operator, email us here

 

LISTENING TO OUR FRIENDS

We belong here. This planet is our home. We are a natural part of it, but it does not belong to us. We are just a tiny part of an enormous and interconnected web of life - the Ecoshere.

No matter how it came to be, the only thing we really need to know about it is this - participation is compulsory. This Earth and our own futue cannot be separated.

To be a part of this great unfolding is to be entirely dependent upon it, and ultimately upon all the other musicians which make up this great symphony of Life.

Perhaps the most sensitive of all our companions are the frogs. Even the smallest changes in the quality of water can tip the fragile balance for an entire frog species. So when an ecosystem fails, the frogs are often the first to go. And so they act as a warning signal - a kind of environmental touchstone in this sense. By vanishing they tell us that something is wrong.

Some would say we have more pressing issues to address. But even if you take the most selfish perspective it is not the frogs themselves we need to be concerned about, as beautiful as they are, it is what their decline represents.

They are a watchtower. They are our friends, we grew up with them. Their increasing absence now is the first sign of a far deeper concern.

Listen to the frogs. They are the ambasadors of ecological balance, a symbol of a sustainable future. They are not saying that they need us. They are saying that we need them.

 

THE GIFT OF AWARENESS

What can we do? It really isn't difficult to help open the way for nature to restore balance and harmony. But all too often our actions feel wasted if it is only us who takes a stand. We need to be part of some greater event.

Look closely, however, and you will see that all positive actions begin with the same primary ingredient - Awareness.

The seeds of collective change will be planted and nurtured in the soil of individual awareness. In the end, this is all that it might take.

Sooner or later a great restoration will arise. And no matter what form it takes it will ultimately need to be supported at a grass roots level if it to be effective.

The bad news about this is that nobody can do this for us. The good news is that nobody can stop us from doing it.

 

PLANT A TREE?

Planting a tree is not just a symbolic act. Did you know -

On average, a single broad leaf tree will absorb in the region of 1 tonne of carbon dioxide during its life-time. Meaning that if the average person planted seven trees per year they would be completely carbon neutral.

Global warming is not the only concern however. Habitat destruction is also of equal importance to the survival of many endangered species.

In its life-time every tree will also be home and shelter to countless different species of bird, insect and reptile as part of an extremely sophisticated and dynamic process of interdependency.

Trees make forests, and forests set the stage for the entire drama of life to occur.

If you purchased an OZROX pendant -

THANK YOU