- What we do
- Green Jobs
- The Story of Stuff
Sustainable Futures is an IRS 501(c)(3) organization operating in Boise, Idaho. Our mission is to address social, environmental and economic needs in our community, helping the underserved to build work maturity while making recycled glass products. We achieve this mission by recycling and repurposing empty glass wine, beer and spirit bottles into other usable glassware—from drinking glasses to wind chimes and other products—that are sold to restaurants, retail outlets and the general public.
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Through recycling and repurposing, Sustainable Futures reduces the amount of glass in landfills, provides jobs and vocational training and creates a new revenue stream that helps support the organization’s mission.
Sustainable Futures also provides “green collar” vocational and life skills training to community members facing significant employment barriers. Men and women recently released from prison are our primary target. Refugees and at-risk youth are also eligible for the program.
In addition to the on-the-job manufacturing skills, Sustainable Futures provides work experience, life skills training and one-on-one coaching and mentoring for job seeking and placement. At the end of the program, graduates have demonstrated responsibility and reliability as they create wholesale and retail products that generate revenue to support future participants.
Our intent is to provide program participants with every tool they need to emerge from their experiences and become functioning members of the community. To do so, we offer re-entry management, counseling, literacy and language instruction, health and nutrition, and job seeking assistance.
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. |
Sustainable Futures has Moved!
Our new production facility located at 5858 W. Franklin Blvd will not have a retail showroom any longer since we sell our products at so many great, northwest retailers!
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