The Hatchet and Seed at Home.

I'm still settling in to the idea of Political and non-political aspects of Political Ecology. It seems that despite the name Robbins spends much time on theory and future potentials of environmental changes of a third world area, but the political change that Kraft desired is left to the side. Obviously, the hatchet and seed represent Robbin's idea of this relationship. I feel like just as it may be used in developing nations it may be applied with the same fervor in the United States. I am a Baltimore historian and devote my outside school time to research and lectures on the city. It seems to me that a Political Ecology model in the downtown ghettos of the city could do well as the hatchet and seed. In fact it is happening as we speak. Certainly the urban citizens could be guided and inspired to create a cleaner area filled with gardens and parks for the community and push the city government to clean up industrial mess from decades ago. I love the use of Robbin's real life examples and would love to talk more about the first-world applications. As much as I love healing the world I feel like I want to start with my hometown. Political Ecology with a big hatchet and determined seed could really work here I think.