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. 

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