Blog & Stories
Insights, updates, and stories from the Sustainability in Prisons Project—highlighting conservation programs, education, research, and community impact.
Adding Salt to Popcorn: Gaining a taste for sustainability
by Grady Mitchell, Roots of Success Instructor and Master Trainer, Stafford Creek Corrections Center. A few years ago, prior to Roots of Success (ROS) someone could have held a conversation…
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Just Sustainability and Restorative Justice
By David Duhaime, Roots of Success Master Instructor, Stafford Creek Corrections Center When I consider what’s sustainable I realize that I don’t believe anything is. I am new to environmental issues;…
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Accountability: Brainstorming article
By Julian Reyes, Roots of Success Instructor, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center The planet is what provides us with food, cycles our water, filters our air, and shields us from harmful…
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Healing people and the environment
by Susan Christopher, Butterfly Technician at Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women In the past, our environment has suffered from many injustices inflicted by society. Over-development, air and water pollution, toxic…
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Reaching the Unreachable
by Cyril Delanto Walrond, Roots of Success Master Trainer/Instructor, Stafford Creek Corrections Center. Just Sustainability must be about all of us and not just some of us. It must be less…
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Sustainability & Justice
by Jonathan Bolden, Roots of Success Instructor, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Photos by DOC staff Too often we assume that the concept of sustainability is exclusive to the realm of environmental…
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