Prisons Go Green & I’m On The Hunt For A New Penpal.

As around-the-clock operations, prisons are voracious resource hogs, and administrators are under increasing pressure to reduce waste and conserve energy and water.

To keep costs down, the Indiana Department of Corrections installed water boilers that run on waste wood chips, and built a wind turbine at one prison that generates about 10 kilowatts an hour and saves $2,280 a year.

At Ironwood State Prison in Blythe, Calif., 6,200 solar panels send energy back to the grid, enough to power 4,100 homes a year. The prison was trying to meet an executive order requiring state agencies to reduce energy use by 20 percent by 2015, said a spokeswoman, Lt. Sue Smith.

Organic farming, recycling and solar in the prison system? Ok ma, forget about that nice dentist man I mentioned earlier. As Jody Watley would say: I’M LOOKING FOR A NEW LOVE.

Don’t worry, I won’t go for the Richard Ramirez type. Maybe one with just a misdemeanor offense. Heck, it doesn’t matter, as long as he can build me my dream apartment dweller compost bin or take care of my window plants that keep dying, it will be a match made in heaven.

But for now, inmate # 2478932, where ever you are, please write me soon with all your green credentials. Oh and pretty please decorate my envelope like the one below. Perhaps with a dope chola chic recycle symbol, sad clowns tree’s and graffiti hearts. I love prison art!

And what are you all looking at? Don’t tell me none of you don’t have any friends behind bars! No? Um..well lucky you. Thanks to computers, writing a good old fashion letter in cursive really sucks a big one nowadays.

Anyway, I guess I can go remove myself from inmateconnection.com and writeaprisoner.com. Hey, don’t judge!!!

source msnbc

flix AP

posted by thuy