Press Room
For press and media inquiries, please contact:
Jeff Muse, M.S., Project Manager: musej@evergreen.edu
The Evergreen State College
Environmental Studies – Lab I, 3064
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW
Olympia, WA 98505
(360) 867-6767
The Sustainable Prisons Project has received worldwide attention in numerous newspapers, magazines, scientific journals and other media:
Newspapers, Magazines and Blogs
- Washington state prisons pursue sustainable practices, green-collar job training
August 19, 2009, Grist - Sustainable Prisons: Con or Pro?
August 6, 2009, Treehugger - The Frog Men of Cedar Creek Corrections Center
July 30, 2009, Mesothelioma and Asbestos Awareness Center - Need frogs? Hire an inmate
July 6, 2009, Sightline Daily - Researchers stunned by inmates’ success raising endangered frogs
July 6, 2009, The Seattle Times - Fort Lewis, prison share unique goal of restoring native prairie land
July 6, 2009, www.army.mil - Post, prison share unique goal
June 25, 2009, The News Tribune - Wash. Prison Doubles as Sustainable Learning Facility
June 24, 2009, Earth911.com - Sustainable prison uses greenhouses, recycling, gardens
June 19, 2009, McClatchy - Sustainable Prisons Project catches on
June 19, 2009, The News Tribune - Sustainable prisons system grows
June 18, 2009, The Olympian - Gardens within prison walls (how to escape bad prison food)
May 8, 2009, Green Right Now - Prisons Turning Green
Spring 2009, The Evergreen State College Magazine - The Ecologist and the Prisoners
March-April 2009, Miller-McCune - Greening the Prison-Industrial Complex
March 3, 2009, The New York Times - Green prisons farm, recycle to save energy, money
November 4, 2008, Tehran Times - Prisons go green, farm, recycle to save energy
November 1, 2008, MSNBC.com - McNeil Island prison saves waste – and money
October 23, 2008, The News Tribune - Moss project grows on inmates at Wash. Prison
October 21, 2008, USA Today - The Moss Shall Set Them Free
January-February 2007, Orion - Inmates cultivate moss – and new interests in life
October 24, 2005, The Seattle Times - Study mixes moss, inmates
November 28, 2004, The Olympian
Scientific Journals and Resources
- Saving the environment from behind bars
July 6, 2009, Scientific American - The Sustainable Prisons Project
June 30, 2009, Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy - Inmates Conduct Ecological Research on Slow-growing Mosses
October 17, 2008, National Science Foundation - Sustainability research and practices in enforced residential institutions: collaborations of ecologists and prisoners
March 19, 2008, Springer Science+Business Media - The Moss-in-Prison Project: disseminating science beyond academia
October 2006, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: Ecological Society of America
Radio, Television and Video
- Raising Endangered Frogs in Prison
October 23, 2009, National Public Radio: KUOW News - Sustainable Prisons Project: Part 2
October 7, 2009, The Environment Report - Sustainable Prisons Project: Part 1
October 6, 2009, The Environment Report - Women inmates hired to help save salmon habitat
September 14, 2009, KING 5 News - Inmates join battle against weed to save salmon runs
September 14, 2009, KOMO News - Sustainable Prisons
July 27, 2009, New Hampshire Public Radio - Northwest Prisons Cut Waste, Prepare Inmates for Green Jobs
June 18, 2009, National Public Radio: KUOW News - Nalini Nadkarni: 8 ways to bring treetops to the world below
March 4, 2009, TEDTalk - Correctional center’s green program a success
October 17, 2008, KING 5 News - Green Prison Reform
June 20, 2008, KCTS 9
