Recent Findings “More people are living near oil and gas development due to the expansion of unconventional extraction techniques as well as near industrial animal operations, both with suggestive evidence of increased exposure to hazardous pollutants and adverse health effects. Legacy contamination continues to adversely impact a new generation of residents in fenceline communities, withContinue reading “Chemical Exposures, Health, and Environmental Justice in Communities Living on the Fenceline of Industry”
Tag Archives: environmental social work
Global Public Goods(GPGs)
aka Global Social Issue Global Public Goods (GPGs) is a variable which serves global agendas due to the necessary use of Intellectual Knowledge house in GPGs as platforms for strategic building in developing countries. As social workers engage with international relations the profession must have access to the most recent research. Often research is housedContinue reading “Global Public Goods(GPGs)”
Sustainability May not be the Methodological Approach to Solving Modern Environmental Issues.
Weitzer (2015) raises a tone, which seems similar to that of Michelle Alexanders, The New Jim Crow (2010). The importance of writer’s, both academic and not, taking the time to not only deepen their scope but develop an agenda that is indicative of a proclamation is beautiful to me. The importance of the writer’s taking the timeContinue reading “Sustainability May not be the Methodological Approach to Solving Modern Environmental Issues.”
Personal Stance(s) on Social Welfare and the Intersection of Economic and Political Philosophies
To provide further insight about my own social and cultural experiences -what serves as the driving force for my passions as a social worker is fueled by the discrepancies individuals face in regards to access- specifically that of which comes from the physical world; or Natural Environment. Having grown up in an upper middle classContinue reading “Personal Stance(s) on Social Welfare and the Intersection of Economic and Political Philosophies”
Environmentally Displaced Trauma, & Sensory Processing
The New and Tube are not where you want to to get information from… with that being said, scholarly research is costly. social workers can’t advocate without access to research & yet we. lose access to peer reviewed academic articles when we no long hold a connection to the academic world “Despite the lack ofContinue reading “Environmentally Displaced Trauma, & Sensory Processing”
The Theory is There… Economic Value to the Question of Deep Ecology is not
The relationship between health and nature is a hard topic to research. There are a vast amount of variables that limit the rigor of studies on the subject. Have faith, there is some evidence. The way I see social workers engaging with this at a macro level is questioning why more funding is not goingContinue reading “The Theory is There… Economic Value to the Question of Deep Ecology is not”
The Relevance of Innovation | Ceditability of Problem Solving for Social Workers at Mezzo & Macro Levels
Social Workers solve problems as do many other professions. Collaboration between professionals in this day and age is necessary to address environmental changes occurring at this moment. To collaborate, Social Workers must go beyond our historic and formalized path. Rationally speaking, this seems obvious. Yet, I am met with so many dificulties as I approachContinue reading “The Relevance of Innovation | Ceditability of Problem Solving for Social Workers at Mezzo & Macro Levels”
Who will win? Man or nature? A Timeless Question
There has been an attempt to turn an actual conversation, which at one point was modern, into some post-modern hype. The children protesting are not posing some satirical Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift, 1729) esque archetype. They are disturbed. The ongoing public conversation about the environment is grounded in the ancient dichotomy of man versus natureContinue reading “Who will win? Man or nature? A Timeless Question”
A Poem; Not Advocacy
Envy is what drives us and to surrender to emotions that mute us — envy results in suspending the mind from movement. Without movement, we are silent observers. Envious of what the earth could be. Dreamers dream; far from pollution- the rising toxicity of their environment. They envy those who are now dead, those whoContinue reading “A Poem; Not Advocacy”
How Did we Come to Regulate Almost Every Aspect of Life Through Policy, Yet, Fail to Properly Politicize the Earth’s Raw-Resources? (sigh)
Ecological economics and environmental social work
“Keney Park” Never Heard of it? Blame Environmental Racism and Systems of Oppression.
The most renowned parks in America have a discarded counterpart: “Keney Park” in Hartford, CT -all designed by Fredrick Olmsted- better known for NYC’s “Central Park” Boston’s “Emerald Necklace Conservancy” Frederick Olmsted, an American Landscape designer best known for Central Park (New York, NY) and The Emerald Necklace (Boston, MA), also created Keney Park (Hartford,Continue reading ““Keney Park” Never Heard of it? Blame Environmental Racism and Systems of Oppression.”
The Environmental Social Worker 