The University of Utah wants to bring science and sustainability into the state’s prisons. The U is developing a project that would work with inmates on recycling, gardening, and composting among other things. It’s part of a trend toward environmental sustainability in prisons – the subject of a workshop at the university that starts Wednesday and runs through Friday. KUER’s Andrea Smardon talks to the scientist who’s working on the university’s new program, Nalini Nadkarni. Nadkarni is a biologist, an ecologist, and the U’s Director of the Center for Science and Mathematics Education.
The national Sustainability in Prisons Project workshop is being held at Fort Douglas on the University of Utah campus, with a reception at the Red Butte Garden Orangerie from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 21.
