What is the Carbon Footprint of Recycling – 4/6 Climate on Tap

How green are we when we recycle? Why is Jefferson County different than most in Washington? Changes are afoot! Bring ideas, answers, and suggestions as we ponder this issue and look at all those R’s: rethink, refuse, repair, reuse, refill, repurpose, rot (compost!) and finally recycle. Ideas will be posted on the Local 20/20 website! 

FinnRiver Cidery is providing us … Read the rest

Recycling, Upcycling and Sharing for a Local Holiday Season

Here is Local 20/20’s latest column in the Port Townsend Leader 11/17/21 edition about ideas on greening your holiday giving. Thank you PT Leader!

Recycling, Upcycling and Sharing for a Local Holiday Season

By Suzanne Jones and Tracy Bigelow Grisman

Looking forward to the Holidays? Many folks will say “Always!” It is easy, though, to feel overwhelmed during this time … Read the rest

It Took a Townsend: A Fond Memory from 2020

Here is Local 20/20’s regular Resilience Review column in the Port Townsend Leader, published 11/25/20. Thank you PT Leader!

The Repairocene (a noun):  A time when common goals of healing, repairing, and restoring of our lands, our things, and our relationships are shared.

                                  It took a Townsend:  A Fond Memory from 2020

By Tracy Grisman

     It’s hard to believe … Read the rest