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5 Eco Things

 Every couple of weeks, I like the idea of trying to track 5 eco things I'm doing or have done. This is in line with The Frugal Girl's list of 5 Frugal Things that she publishes every week (The Frugal Girl is a blog I like).  This week, I: 1. Used a lot of "scraps" of water from water bottles and such to water my balcony plants. 2. Collected and packaged some items to send to ThredUp to be resold. This is both ecologically and financially sound, provided the clothes find their way to a home. I'm hopeful, because most of the items are name brand as they request. Separately, I also collected a bunch of clothes to take to the Be Thrifty in Annandale.  3. We ate a lot of random leftover-y food, but in good fashion. For instance, in the morning I ate some fruit that was on its last legs, something else random that needed using up, and a partial bag of chips that had been sitting around. Shantonu doesn't really eat breakfast but I know at some point in the day he at...

Introducing The Green Social Worker

Welcome to The Green Social Worker!  I'm re-upping this blog with a new mission: tracking my own sustainable social worker actions, aka environmental social work or eco social work. This has been a passion area of mine for a long time, even before I knew it was a real "thing". I want a place where I can log all of the articles and ideas I come across about this topic, interviews or conversations with people that I witness, hear, or have personally, ideas and initiatives that I might pursue or be interested, and just generally my own personal journey around sustainability and social work and how these two concepts coalesce.