The benefits of Sustainable Living just keep adding up

It turns out that by taking just a few "shockingly simple" measures--such as saving food scraps for composting, using water-saving toilets, and creating an organic garden--the Cedar Creek Corrections Center is going to be able to accomodate 100 more prisoners this year! That's according to a report this morning from KUOW correspondent Tom Banse. For a while it looked like maybe the prison was going to have to build an expensive new waste treatment plant because of all the food that, for some reason, keeps getting left on plates and then dumped into the sewer system. Not anymore! The inmates must get an awfully warm feeling to know that of the two pieces of furniture in their cells, one, at least, is conserving our precious natural resources--not to mention making it possible to accomodate more offenders. I just hope they'll be able to get a seagrass bed to match the low-flow toilet.