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.