Bridget Johnson

The Women Who Made the Path Wider I’ve been thinking about the women who made it easier for the rest of us to create our own paths. Gloria Steinem helped generations of women understand that their voices mattered. She encouraged women to question expectations, speak up, and imagine lives larger than the ones others had planned for them. I loved her 'look' (way ahead of her time) and her confidence on stage. Dolly Parton carved another kind of path—and I loved her for it. I loved her voice,...

I know this may look like a bunch of carts full of old circuit boards… but this picture makes me ridiculously happy. These boards are headed down to a processor in Denver, where they’ll be properly recycled and broken down so valuable materials like copper, gold, silver, and other metals can be recovered and used again. Here’s a fun copper fact: A common circuit board is made using copper layers measured at about 1 ounce of copper per square foot of board area per layer. That copper layer is...

For 26 years straight, Green Girl Recycling has had the honor of helping Jamestown celebrate the Fourth of July the Zero Waste way. And here is something we have learned after more than a quarter-century of doing this event: we still learn something new every single year. Every Fourth of July teaches us better ways to create diversion, improve our systems and make things run more smoothly. Sometimes the best new ideas are not complicated at all. This year’s biggest composting lesson? (Put the...