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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000026.txt from 2008/07
From: "Miriam Williams" <mwquacker@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Let's Plant an Oboe Grove!
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:06:56 -0400
This is a bit OT:
Great idea! This sounds like it might be a good niche for some poor folks
and those who have the capital to help them become entrepreneurs. It's
worked with other products. Thinking of the book, Lessons from the Poor:
Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit, edited by Alvaro Vargas Llosa. This
book would be an inspiring read to anyone interested in the subject. I've
not read it, only a review. The last paragraph:
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One of the glories of this book is that there is nothing ideological about
it. It simply searches the questions, "What works and why?" Material
progress is not everything in life, but as V. S. Naipaul once observed, the
poor need it --and they could have it, if only others would get off their
throats.
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Where else in the world is the climate favorable for blackwood?
Miriam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Juan Zuccolo" <jzuccolo03@-----.ca>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [DR-L] Let's Plant an Oboe Grove!
The idea seems fine, but why not start a second
source of wood in, let say, Brazil or Panama, it
might be an insurance against unstable supply and
it could also foster a local industry too...
Juan
At 01:46 AM 08/07/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>Letā?Ts Plant an Oboe Grove
>
>AFRICAN BLACKWOOD CONSERVATION PROJECT
>Moshi, Tanzania
>
>$3.00 plants one grenadilla tree
>
>As the winner of a global connections grant from meet the composer, Iā?Tll
>be
>visiting the African Blackwood (grenadilla) Conservation Project in
>Northern
>Tanzania, beginning September 14th, 2008. Donate $3.00 or more, make sure
>your name and e mail address are included, make checks payable to ABCP and
>put ā?~
>oboe groveā?T in the memo section. Iā?Tll establish an oboe grove and
>plant your
>name in the earth with the trees too (on bio degradable paper).
>
>Visit _www.blackwoodconservation.org_
>(http://www.blackwoodconservation.org)
>to donate online.
>
>Checks can be sent to
>ABCP c/o James Harris
>PO Box 26
>Red Rock, Texas 78662
>
>Contact me for more information.
>
>Brenda Schuman-Post
>www.oboesoftheworld.com
>
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