ABSTRACT
Greensburg was considered a thriving, historic and beautiful oasis in the semi-arid regions of Southwest Kansas. Kansas in located in what is notorious referred to as 'tornado alley', a swath of the central plains region of the United States which experiences hundreds and in some years thousands of tornadoes each spring. Prior to the late 1980s and early 1990s little could be found in the academic or practice literature concerning the impact of deteriorating ecological condition and their influence on clients and the larger world community. The vision, the hope, the planning, the cooperation in the aftermath of the tornado in Greensburg has some lessons for social work as well. The early contributors to environmental social work were curious practitioners and scholars. Social work knows the importance of connection and relationship. Social worker's widespread adoption of contemporary systems theory as a guiding theoretical framework for the way they practice social work has taught them how everything connects to everything else.
