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In New York, a fight brews between renewable energy and jails

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

February 7, 2008 In New York, a fight brews between renewable energy and jails Posted by Michael Kanellos INDIAN WELLS, Calif.--Jails or jobs. Those are the terms of a battle over a plot of land in the South Bronx, according to activist Majora Carter. The Sustainable South Bronx, a community group focused on cleaning up poor communities, is trying to build a green industrial park on a 25-acre piece of land in a blighted section of the Bronx slated for redevelopment. The idea is to draw in companies that will make solar panels from solar cells and/or "green roofs" (lawns that are put on top of apartment buildings). The development will create jobs in the area, she said, as well as allow the land to be used in a relatively safe, nonpolluting way...continue to full post

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