3. Poems for Lynn
A TALE OF NIGHT SAUCES
How great is my life ever since I’ve found peace of mind with my whole body sound!
When I survey the wonders I have wrought,
The results justify the means and the thought.
Ruler! Supreme in My enchanted garden,
I suffer no one here to remain harden.
My plants are my children, all blooming and bright, with marvellous flowers, blossoms
and buds, To delight all my friends and my minions are so few.
The few things missing I shall never rue!
Rosebushes have thorns, those pricks I do fear, for by any other name is pickas I still
hear! Subtly sweet are the fragrances where'er I walk.
Softly whisper the leaves as they exchange old talk, with gossipy breezes rustling among
the branches,
Causing endless play of light and shadows, while the benign sun shuffles through the
hollows, amused no doubt by efforts seeming ever so grand to me, Empress over all
this enchanted land!
4. Politically incorrect and bourgeois: Nariva Swamp is sufficient
onto itself
Fig 3. Location of major sectors in the Nariva Swamp (source Wildlife Section, 1993)
5. Politically incorrect and bourgeois: Nariva
Swamp is sufficient onto itself
The push towards quantifying Nature as ‘ecosystem services’, or the
economic benefits provided by natural ecosystems is part of a market-
oriented mechanism for conservation says McCauley (2006) in a much-
discussed article in the journal Nature. The underlying assumption is that if
scientists can identify ecosystem services, like the Manzanilla Windbelt,
Bush Bush and Bois Neuf islands for birds, other wildlife, and the mud
volcanoes and the tourist potential they represent, then they can quantify
their economic value, and align conservation with market ideologies. This
will then move decision makers away from environmental destruction
(McCauley, 2006).
This McCauley claims is akin to saying that civil-rights advocates would
have been more effective if they provided economic justifications for racial
integration. Nature conservation should be framed as a moral issue and
argued as such to policy-makers, says McCauley, since policy makers are
just as accustomed to making decisions based on morality as on finances.
McCauley, D.J. 2006. Selling out on nature. Nature 443 (7107): 27-8.
6. Creole Remedies of Trinidad and
Tobago
Figure 96.
Angostura trifoliata
Plants used for stomach problems, pain and
internal parasites that should take priority in Permalink:
clinical trials are Bambusa vulgaris, Bidens alba, http://amzn.com/B007
Jatropha curcas, Neurolaena lobata, Peperomia WVA18Q
rotundifolia and Phyllanthus urinaria.
8. Mini Blagues from Trinidad
http://www.smashwords.com/
books/view/4733
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9.
10. Mini Blagues
from Trinidad
Permalink:
http://amzn.com/0978346823
I had always liked planting things. The sight of a shoot
bursting through the soil is a great thrill and I was a great
experimenter in those days. I achieved very good results
from the corn, the butter beans, and various flower seeds
that I had planted. It seemed only logical at the time to
experiment with coins! I recall diligently watering the spots
where I had made some of my investments. I can also
remember that there were no green shoots after all the
effort! In much later years when my parents told me that
money doesn’t grow on trees, I wisely swallowed my
response that it doesn’t grow from coins either!
11.
12. A “Rounders” Story About the
“Green Cheese” Moon
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A very, very, long
time ago, two and a
half billion years ago, to be
exact, the moon was
much closer to the earth.
13. Movement Towards an Alternative Food Economy? Social
Economy, Co-Operatives and Sustainable Agriculture in
British Columbia
My research from 2003 -
2005 explored the evolution
of an alternative food
economy and the response to
this by actors in conventional
agriculture. The research was
designed to be useful to
urban and rural people trying
to build sustainable and
vibrant communities. The
research also looked at the
role that co-ops play in the
development of this
alternative food economy.
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14. Movement Towards an Alternative Food Economy? Social
Economy, Co-Operatives and Sustainable Agriculture in
British Columbia
Fred was able to present his struggle and his up-coming class action suit in his own
words. He claims that his fight is one against the “Marketing Borg”. He says that:
followers of Star Trek the Next Generation know that the Borg are an evil force that
assimilates all humanoid life forms into their collective as in a “chicken is a
chicken” [referring to a previous legal judgment by Madame Justice Smith against
Fred] and “you shall be assimilated”. They also state to their would-be victims that
“resistance is futile”. It was eerie when I got the e-mail from Samuel about talking
to the IOPA AGM and he “looked forward to hearing about our resistance to the
Board”. I laughed immediately because there has been one constant throughout
our struggle and that is that many people have and still say that resistance is futile.
Wendy A. Baker, Partner, Miller Thompson
LLP and Fred Reid, Olera Farms
15. Ethnoveterinary medicines
used for pets in British
Columbia Permalink: http://amzn.com/0978346890
There are two case studies in the paper. Dog A
was given Phytolacca decandra, Ganoderma lucidum,
Lentinula edodes, Rumex acetosella leaf, Arctium lappa
root, Ulmus fulva bark and Rheum palmatum root.
This dog was also given six herbs for lymphatic
drainage. Dog B was given Frangula purshiana bark,
Zingiber officinale root, Glycyrrhiza glabra root, Ulmus
fulva bark, Althea officinalis root, Rheum palmatum
stem, Rumex crispus root and Plantago psyllium seeds.
Trifolium pratense is used for tumours in the
prostate.The following plants are also used to
treat cancer: Artemisia annua, Taraxacum officinale
and Rumex crispus.These treatments were said to
prolong the lives of the dogs treated.
16. MONEY AND THE EPISTEMOLOGIES OF IGNORANCE
CONCERNING CLIMATE CHANGE
Terry (2009) claims that the mainstream policy discourse
of climate change is stereotypically masculine- consisting
of computer models, neoclassical economic approaches
like carbon trading and quick fix technologies.While not
completely agreeing I would add nuclear energy to this
list (Mummy will clean up the messy nuclear waste). The
majority of the politicians and businessmen involved in
the climate change dispute, and in the Super Pac
donations are men. Ross (2008) found that oil-dominated
economies had repressive gender policies because of the
oil wealth, which boosted male dominated construction
(golf courses) and services but suppressed alternative
manufacturing which served as career entry points for
women (like sewing). Lisa Blaydes and Drew Linzer
(2007) found that lack of economic opportunity led
Permalink: women to embrace fundamentalist belief systems in
http://amzn.com/B008EDAJ6K order to make themselves more marriageable (marriage
becoming their main economic support).
