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In this article, after presenting three work situations she knew from her experience as a social psychologist and teacher-researcher at a university in Seine-Saint-Denis, the author links work and care, care and environment, and environment and work. The environment, a polysemic concept, is restricted, from a situated perspective, to urban, industrial, and post-industrial peripheries. Her thesis is that this articulation implies a transformation of these concepts. Care reveals the narrowness of the androcentric concept of work and points to the protective and embodied dimensions of the local environment, while the environment highlights the blind spots of labour sciences concerning health and the privilege accorded to workers without examining the toxic risks to the environment as a lived environment. The article concludes with a brief mention of a collective careforming program in a poor and deprived suburb that provides support to people suffering from mental illness, emphasising the importance of the utopian dimension.