Lab grown diamonds are sold on environmental claims more than almost any product in this trade, and most of those claims cannot be checked. We have taken a different approach. Everything on this page is a specific action with a document behind it, and where we do not have the data, we say so.
We are not finished. We review this every year and look for the thing we are not yet doing. If you have suggestions on how we can do better, or practices you think we should be taking on, please tell us.
Most of what a lab grown diamond company can honestly claim happens after the carbon exists. That is a smaller territory than the marketing suggests, and it is the territory we actually control. Here is what we do inside it.
Our cutters are paid 50 percent above the market rate in Surat. Not as a gesture, but because precision cutting is skilled work and the people doing it are the reason our stones look the way they do.
Why it holds Our cutters stay. In an industry defined by turnover, the senior hands have been here long enough to have trained the people sitting beside them.In 2026 we measured the power drawn at all three of our locations and matched every megawatt hour with certified renewable generation. Eighty-four megawatt hours of wind and solar, purchased and retired for our operations.
Why it holds Purchased through a certified B Corporation and retired, so that no other party can claim the same generation.Every Distinctive Cut diamond sold plants a tree in fire damaged California forest through One Tree Planted. Not an offset and not a carbon claim. Reforestation, funded per stone.
Why it holds One Tree Planted is a registered 501(c)(3) and reports its planting sites publicly. The count is tied to orders, not to a budget line.Every LITHOS stone carries the LITHOS bull laser inscribed on the girdle alongside its IGI report number. We employ our cutters directly and cut in our own facility rather than brokering the work out.
Why it holds A dealer who buys finished goods cannot tell you who cut them or under what conditions. If the mark is on the stone, we can.We reviewed a full year of power consumption at every location we operate: the cutting facility in Surat, the office in Mumbai, and the headquarters in Los Angeles. In 2026 we purchased and retired 84 megawatt hours of certified solar and wind renewable energy certificates through a certified B Corporation, one of the longest operating renewable energy providers in the United States. Retired for our operations, they cannot be counted by anyone else.
This covers the electricity we draw. It does not cover diamond growth, which happens at partner facilities we do not own or operate. We say more about that below.
Certified wind and solar for the 2026 reporting year, retired for our operations and unavailable to any other party.
Across all three locations, for the whole of the 2026 calendar year. Matched against measured consumption, not estimated.
The Surat cutting facility, the Mumbai office, and the Los Angeles headquarters. Every place we operate, with nothing left out.
We are continuing the program into next year and expect coverage to grow with the business rather than lag behind it.
Surat cuts most of the world's diamonds, and it is an industry built on speed. Work is handed out by the parcel, pay rises and falls with the flow of rough, and cutters move between factories chasing it. That model produces volume. It does not produce a good make.
An Old Mine cut is not a shape you program into a machine. It is a series of judgments made by a person reading a specific piece of rough, and getting it wrong costs more than the time saved. Paying well above the going rate is how we keep people who can make those judgments, at the same benches, year after year.
It is also why we can take on shapes other houses turn away. Volume cutting and precision cutting are two different trades, and only one of them can be bought cheaply.
"Lab rough is plentiful. Skilled hands are not."
What our cutters are paid against the going rate for equivalent work in Surat, the city that cuts most of the world's diamonds.
We employ our cutters directly rather than subcontracting to third party factories, which is what makes any of this ours to answer for.
Work is scheduled by the shape and the stone rather than by throughput, so a difficult make gets the hours it needs.
Every Distinctive Cut diamond sold plants a tree in fire damaged California forest through One Tree Planted. We chose reforestation because it is a specific, countable action rather than a certificate, and because California is one of the planet's biodiversity hotspots, with more native plant species than any other state.
After a wildfire, invasive species establish quickly in cleared ground and turn diverse forest into low value bushland. Replanting native stock is what gives those ecosystems a chance to come back as forest. That is the work this funds.
We do not present this as a carbon offset and we make no claim that it neutralizes anything. It is reforestation, funded per stone, and the planting is reported by the organization doing it rather than by us.
Almost nobody in this category publishes their limits. We think that is exactly why the claims in it are hard to trust. Here is what we do not know, and what we are not going to tell you until we do.
We purchase premium lab rough on the open market from trusted vendors. Growing that carbon is energy intensive and it happens over weeks in facilities we do not own or operate. Our renewable coverage applies to the electricity we draw, not to growth. Any company telling you their finished lab diamond is carbon neutral should be asked how they account for that stage.
We do not publish a comparison between our stones and mined diamonds, because we have not commissioned a lifecycle assessment and we are not going to repeat someone else's. When we have a study we can stand behind, it will appear here with the methodology attached.
Stones move between Surat, Mumbai and Los Angeles, and we attend trade shows. None of that is currently measured. It is on the list, and measuring it comes before claiming anything about it.
Nothing on this page rests on our word alone. Each commitment is backed by certification or reporting from an independent body, and we are glad to walk any customer or trade partner through the detail.
Certified solar and wind renewable energy certificates, retired for our operations for the 2026 reporting year.
Purchased through a certified B Corporation, among the longest operating renewable energy providers in the United States.
One Tree Planted, a registered 501(c)(3), with planting counts tied to Distinctive Cut orders and sites reported publicly.
IGI grading report on every stone, with the report number and the LITHOS bull laser inscribed on the girdle.
If you would like to know more about our practices, or need documentation for a client or a compliance review, please email us and we will take you through it.
The trade is increasingly being asked to answer for how a stone was made and who handled it. We would rather give you documentation you can forward than assurances you have to repeat. Trade accounts are open, and we are happy to go further into any of this than the page does.
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