Press Room
For press and media inquiries, please contact:
Kelli Bush, Project Manager: bushk@evergreen.edu
The Evergreen State College
Environmental Studies – Lab II
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW
Olympia, WA 98505
(360) 867-6863
The Sustainable Prisons Project has received worldwide attention in numerous newspapers, magazines, scientific journals and other media:
Newspapers, Magazines and Blogs
- Hope takes wing in butterfly program at prison
May 2012, Kitsap Sun - Pacific Northwest’s Sustainability in Prisons Project
May 2012, American Horticultural Therapy Association - In Washington, prison inmates raise bees, frogs and butterflies
April 2012, Grist - These inmates pay their debt to society by caring for the planet
April 2012, Co.EXIST - Captive Breeding
December 2011, Conservation Magazine - Why prison inmates make great conservationist
November 2011, Grist - Inmates training to raise rare butterflies from artillery range
October 2011, The Seattle Times - Inmates helping nurture endangered butterflies
October 2011, Komo News - Butterflies, inmates blossom in Belfair
October 2011, Kitsap Sun - Department of Defense spends thousands to save a butterfly
October 2011, Treehugger - With military’s help, Mission Creek inmates hope to repopulate threatened butterfly
October 2011, Kitsap Sun - Nalini Nadkarni’s Sustainable Prisons Project: Bringing Life Back into Prisons!
June, 2011, Youth Leader Magazine (India) - Low-risk offenders have eyes in the trees; future arborists in the making
June, 2011, Washington State Department of Natural Resources - Bee-Keeping Skills Learned on the Inside Help him Survive on the Outside
May 10, 2011, The Kitsap Sun - The Sustainable Prisons Project
April, 2011, The Arborist News - Oregon Spotted Frog project at Cedar Creek Corrections Center
December 2010, Amphibian Ark Newsletter - New Bright Ideas Recognizes Innovative Government
September 29, 2010, Harvard Kennedy School - From Jailhouse to Greenhouse
June 2010, Rosebud Magazine - Prisoners of Conscience
May/June 2010, Sierra Magazine - The Green Mile: Can turning prisons into hothouses of sustainability pay off for everyone?
January/February 2010, Mother Jones Magazine - The Nature Conservancy: South Puget Sound Program Highlights
October-December 2009, The Nature Conservancy - Endangered Oregon Spotted Frogs Returned to Native Habitat
November 17, 2009 - Green Rehab: Inmates Fuel a Prairie’s Restoration
Winter 2009, The Nature Conservancy Magazine - 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 - Wash. prisoners plant seeds for conservation
July 13, 2009, The Seattle Times - Researchers stunned by inmates’ success raising endangered frogs
July 6, 2009, The Seattle Times - Need frogs? Hire an inmate
July 6, 2009, The Sightline Daily - 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 - Moss Conservation Behind Bars
July 29, 2008, Conservation Magazine - 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
- The Greening of Corrections: Creating a Sustainable System
March 2011, The National Institute of Corrections (Department of Justice) - 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
- Inmates training to raise endangered butterflies
October 2011, The Seattle Times - Butterflies behind bars
October 2011, KING 5 News - Northwest Now: The Sustainable Prisons Project
January 13, 2011, KBTC, PBS - Full Focus: Being Green
December 2010, KBTC, PBS - Washington Inmates Help Protect Endangered Frog, Prison Budget
December 3, 2010, PBS Newshour - Going Green Behind Bars
November 19, 2010, KCTS 9 Connects - The Promised Land: Nalini Nadkarni
Season 1, Fall 2010, Majora Carter - Oregon Field Guide: Sustainable Prisons Project
November, 2010, Oregon Public Broadcasting - Science Nation: Science Behind Bars
October 18, 2010, National Science Foundation - Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison
February, 2010, TEDTalk - Prisoners turn over a new leaf with eye on environment
May 20, 2010, CNN - Frogs
November 18, 2009, National Public Radio: KUOW News - Sustainable Prisons Project
November 17, 2009, YouTube, Communications Department, Washington State Department of Corrections - 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
