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Dennis Dubin: Energy Architecture Prison Construction Saves Money and ResourcesEnergy-Efficient Prisons
By Elisabeth Lawrence
At a time in our nation's history when over 1.9 million Americans are incarcerated at a taxpayer expense of over $65 billion each year, Dennis Dubin has a radical, if sensible idea: build energy-efficient prisons. "In the U.S., we keep building more prisons, but current methods of prison construction waste valuable resources, most notably taxpayers' money," says Mr. Dubin, a real estate and venture investor whose activities have included interests in telecommunications, health care, alternative energy-related businesses, and meaningful philanthropic support for worthy causes (www.upeace.org).

Mr. Dubin is a proud American who serves as a director of the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation (supporting families and agents in need within the Federal law enforcement community) and is an active member in the Navy War College Foundation and an advisor to the World Security Network.

He was a selection committee member and representative to the International Congress for Distinguished Awards for the International Earth Day Medal at the United Nations (Earth Day). Even though Mr. Dubin is a champion of the Constitution and democratic principles, he is a respectful internationalist and special advisor to the United Nations chartered University of Peace (UPeace). He is also a board member of UPeace USA, where he is incubating a youth violence reduction initiative as a possible global model. In addition, Mr. Dubin is a special consultant with the National Foundation for Women Legislators Committee on Crime, Justice, Terrorism & Substance Abuse Policy and a former trustee of the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Prize.

Mr. Dubin has become known as an innovative thinker who creates leading edge concepts in areas of social concern.

"Unless we begin to take a progressive approach, we'll continue down the slippery slope of inefficiency and misuse of our human and natural resources," he points out. For Mr. Dubin, that progressive approach incorporates something he refers to

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