Women who power the Reuse Movement
In honor of Women’s History Month, Indisposable Podcast host Brooking Gatewood presents a roundup of her favorite interviews with some of the many innovative, visionary, women-identified Solutioneers driving the Reuse Movement forward. Here’s a handy “one click list” of all the inspirational episodes she mentions:
The “Entrepreneuresses”
Episode 12: Vending Machine Makeover with Chloe Vichot of Fresh Bowl
Episode 14: Take-away without throw-away: reuse made easy with Safia Qureshi of ClubZero (previously CupClub)
Episode 20: Cups: The gateway drug to throw-away culture? With Dagny Tucker of Vessel
Episode 49: Reuse To-Go: Innovations in Takeout & Delivery with Lauren Sweeney of DeliverZero
Episode 26: The safety and future of reuse with Lindsey Hoell of Dispatch Goods
Episode 69: Stopping Single-Use in the Shower with Lindsey McCoy of Plaine Products
Episode 54: Bringing Reuse in Restaurants to Life with Sandra Noonan of Just Salad
Episode 80: Pioneering Reuse Down Under with Abigail Forsyth of KeepCup
Episode 8: Beauty without waste with Shilpi Chhotray of Samudra Skin & Sea and People over Plastic
Environmental Justice & Community Organizing
Episode 15: Force of Nature with Diane Wilson of Code Pink
Episode 45: Changing the narrative: Environmental justice and plastic production with Mary Aguilera of the Ohio Poor People’s Campaign and Sylvia McKenzie of the Louisiana League of Conscious Voters
Episode 32: Students can be teachers, too with California youth activists Sithara Menon and Valerie Nguyen
Episode 70: The Power of Community and Coalitions with Reusable LA co-chairs Alison Waliszewski, Emily Parker, and Melissa Aguayo
Culture Shapers
Episode 6: Bringing back the lunchbox with actress Caitlin Fitzgerald
Episode 9: Slow music with Leah Song of Rising Appalachia
Episode 63: Redesigning for Reuse with Elizabeth Segran of Fast Company
Episode 65: Science on an Environmental Mission with TV personality/science communicator Danni Washington
Episode 3: Plastic-free mermaids and Episode 37: An Indisposable Holiday Season with social media influencer Kate Nelson
Thinking Global, Acting Local
Episode 7: The creative power of limits with Nikyta Palmisani, eco-artist and Zero Waste educator
Episode 29: Plastic-free Solutioneers with Jess Blasko of The Refill Station
Episode 31: Sustaining small business during COVID with Vanessa Pope of MudLab
Episode 43: An indisposable future for your baby with Lily Broberg Strong of Earth Diapers
Episode 67: Reimagining Food Service Systems in Durham and Beyond with Crystal Dreisbach of Don’t Waste Durham and GreenToGo
Institutional Systems Change
Episode 13: Indisposable Concessions with Aimee David of Monterey Bay Aquarium
Episode 50: Consumption (and Contraception) in the Age of Extinction with Kelley Dennings of the Center for Biological Diversity
Episode 22: Reuse, resilience and COVID-19 with Jane Muncke of the Food Packaging Forum (see also the Unwrapped project website).
Episode 30: Myth-busting with public health experts: The safety of single-use with Michele Okoh and Michelle Nowlin of Duke University
Episode 40: 2021 Plastics Policy Roundup with national policy experts Yinka Bode-George, Judith Enck, and Upstream’s Policy Director Miriam Gordon
Episode 39: Disrupting disposable food service with Upstream’s Business Innovation Director Samantha Sommer
Episode 75: How Upstream and the Reuse Movement Began with Upstream co-founder Helen Spiegelman
As Mindy Kaling has recently been quoted as saying: “If you don’t see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself”— that’s exactly what’s happening all over the world as women help build the road to reuse, just as they have helped pave the way for so many social transformations before. And it’s a nice thing sometimes to just pause, recognize, and give thanks.
