Sustainability is about more than just the environment - it's about the people living on it, too!

Tami & Jake talk with Mitch Kulawik, Work Services Director at Goodwill of the Great Plains, to find out how job training and community supported employment help people grow confidence and sustain their lives.

In this episode of Sustainable Steps, we'll find out:

Career Paths: What careers Goodwill can help you find

Virtual Reality: How virtual reality can help you find a career you'd love - and rule out the ones you don't.

Endless Options: From auto mechanics to knee surgeons, there's a career for everyone!

The Sustainable Steps podcast is made possible through a generous grant from the Gilchrist Foundation.

Find out more about Goodwill of the Great Plains at https://www.goodwillgreatplains.org

Your HDMI cable is frayed and your blender has seen better days - but before you throw your old electronics in the trash, did you know you can recycle them? In this episode of Sustainable Steps, Tami & Jake talk with Ben Esquivel of ERS Electronic Recycling Services, LLC in South Sioux City.

Ben's team specializes in breaking down unwanted tech so components can be reused, repurposed and kept out of the landfill.

In this episode, you'll learn: - What items are eligible for recycling. - How much of your old "junk" can actually be reclaimed. - Why even battery-free devices pose an environmental risk if left to rot in a landfill. For more information on ERS Electronic Recycling Services, LLC, please visit this website https://ersewaste.com/

Find out more at https://www.goodwillgreatplains.org.

The Sustainable Steps podcast is made possible due to a generous grant from the Gilchrist Foundation.

You've got bundles of old bills, mountains of medical documents and a hard drive you put in a drawer back in the '90s?

How can you clear the clutter without someone stealing your identity?

Goodwill of the Great Plains can help! In this episode of Sustainable Steps, Tami & Jake talk with Goodwill's very own "demolition expert," Dan Peters. As manager of GoodShred, Goodwill's secure document and hard drive destruction service, it's his job to destroy all that and more, while keeping your identity and digital data safe.

In this episode, you'll learn how many hundreds of thousands of pounds of paper GoodShred has saved from the landfill and recycled, what your recycled paper products become after you drop them off and why a professional service is always more secure than your home shredder. Ready to get shredding with GoodShred? Find out more, or get a secure bin at your business, by visiting https://goodwillgreatplains.org/goodshred/ or by calling Dan at (605) 357 - 6151.

Find out more at https://www.goodwillgreatplains.org.

The Sustainable Steps podcast is made possible due to a generous grant from the Gilchrist Foundation.

There are easy, small steps you can take to make your home, city and life more sustainable!

From re-usable bags to "26 on 26," Samantha Daily and Arah Montagne with the Sioux City Environmental Advisory Board talk with Tami & Jake in this episode of "Sustainable Steps."

The Environmental Advisory Board is located in Sioux City's City Hall, for more information, please visit: Environmental Advisory Board | City of Sioux City website

Find out more at https://www.goodwillgreatplains.org.

The Sustainable Steps podcast is made possible due to a generous grant from the Gilchrist Foundation.

Did you know sustainability could be a career? In the second episode of the Goodwill of the Great Plains Sustainability Steps podcast, Jake and Tami find out what a sustainability manager does and just how much Goodwill re-uses, repurposes and recycles donated items that can't be sold.

Find out more at https://www.goodwillgreatplains.org.

The Sustainable Steps podcast is made possible due to a generous grant from the Gilchrist Foundation.

What is Goodwill of the Great Plains and how did it get started?

Join Jake and Tami as they take us into the 'wild west' of 1920s Sioux City, Iowa, as Dr. John P. Hantla, Sr. steps into the role as head of the Wall Street Mission, which would later become Goodwill Industries and Goodwill of the Great Plains.

Find out more at https://www.goodwillgreatplains.org.

The Sustainable Steps podcast is made possible due to a generous grant from the Gilchrist Foundation.