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Sustainable Futures is a non-profit organization in Boise, ID that has two primary missions: Our first mission is to “open the circle” to employment by providing vocational training in “green-collar” jobs to people re-entering the workplace, who are poor, disadvantaged or have otherwise experienced barriers to employment. Currently we employ women recently released from prison, refugees, and at-risk youth (ages 18-21).
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The second part of our mission is to “close the loop” by recycling wine and spirit bottles, turning them into drinking glassware, bowls, vases, and soy candles. The glassware and candles are then either sold to the various restaurants in town that support our program, or are made available for retail sales, with the option of custom logo etching. Our employees learn how to clean, cut, grind, polish, and sandblast the glass, breathing new life into discarded bottles.
In addition to job training, Sustainable Futures offers a life skills curriculum as part of our program. Our intent is to provide our employees with every tool they need to emerge from their experiences and become functioning members of the community. We offer programs in re-entry management, counseling, literacy and language instruction, health and nutrition, and gaining permanent employment.
Green-collar jobs are good jobs. Like blue-collar jobs, green-collar jobs pay family wages and provide opportunities for advancement along a career track of increasing skills and wages. A job that does something for the planet, and little to nothing for the people or the economy, is not a green-collar job. Green-collar jobs give Americans of all socioeconomic backgrounds a tangible stake in engaging issues like global warming while making it their livelihood. Every day, about 135 million people go to work in the United States. Imagine what can happen when millions of these jobs — plus new ones created for people who are currently unemployed — are in fields like renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and green building. Two crucial concerns about survival — the environment and making a living — can be combined. A person's commitment to his/her job can also be his/her commitment to the planet. Right now, there is great opportunity to strengthen America's economy by making it greener, as well as opportunity to aid in uplifting impoverished Americans into a revitalized middle class. The first thing we can do is to provide the training that will turn 20th-century blue-collar jobs into secure 21st-century green-collar jobs. For more information on green-collar jobs visit: GreenforAll.org. |
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. |
We support the 2010 Sara Lee TICKETS Fore CHARITY™ program through the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Kraft! |
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