Samantha Romanick, a microbiology PhD student, is the founder and operator of Black Rock Refill, a zero-waste business to help people in the Reno, Nevada and surrounding areas have options to reduce plastic waste in their lives. Studying the biology of micro-plastic contamination in the environment, she knows intimately why we should consider minimizing our use of plastic and how to go about it. She operates her business without a brick and mortar store and still manages to make her products available to a large area.
Casey Shiver has been a member of the Buy Nothing Project’s Central Reno group for a couple of years now and started volunteering as...
We meet the owners of Thali an organic vegetarian restaurant that share multiple ways that they are striving to operate sustainably. Learn more about...
Tanner Petrilla has been working as a farm intern at four different organic farms learning what works best with various growing conditions, types of...
