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VIA: TheRoot.com

Going Green has become the buzz phrase for 2010.  Everyone is talking about the ways that people can go green and what it really means.  Baltimore County is actually putting the idea of what it means and how it can help into action.  They are pushing the envelope with a new program that helps ex-offenders learn more about the green industry while in jail.

In an article on TheRoot.com, Hollis Robbins says:

In 2009 a group of innovative thinkers, community activists and lawmakers decided to tackle both problems at once by creating a program that would train those leaving the city’s correctional system in deconstruction: the systematic disassembly of a building to maximize recycling and reuse (or reclamation). Why not train ex-offenders to dismantle buildings — using green processes — rather than simply demolish? The city’s infrastructure would benefit, and these men would be trained for their future. (Nearly two-thirds of those released from incarceration will return to jail or prison, but that percentage drops to a third for those who get help from programs designed to help ex-offenders return to their communities.) Thus the Barclay Deconstruction and Reclamation pilot project was born.

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