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The ongoing environmental crisis will shape the future of humanity. We are constantly bombarded with negative news, and we don’t need another voice adding to that gloom. Instead, let’s focus on the positive: we possess all the tools necessary to repair the damage we've done. one5c serves as a helpful resource for living on our planet in a way that is sustainable and respectful.

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How to handle a barrage of bad news

3 weeks ago | one5c.com | Molly Glick

Since January, the Trump administration has swiftly delivered a barrage of anti-climate actions. On day one, it backed out of the Paris Agreement, and has since consistently pushed to ramp up fossil fuel production and scrap President Biden’s policies aimed to increase electric vehicle sales, among other measures.
The best bidet hits all the right spots

1 month ago | one5c.com | Christian Dashiell |Tyler Santora

While it took a pandemic-era toilet paper shortage to spur the change, more Americans than ever are embracing the bidet. Sales of the butt-washing bathroom appliance have increased at least 20% each year since lockdown and show no sign of slowing down. This is good news, as rinsing your posterior with a stream of water shot from a bidet is both less wasteful and more hygienic than wiping with toilet paper.
How to eat sustainably and avoid tariff markups

1 month ago | one5c.com | Molly Glick

This week, the Trump administration’s suite of tariffs took effect, including a 25%-er on most imported goods from Canada and Mexico and a 10%-er on wares from China. U.S. supermarket shelves are packed with produce from Mexico, which provided more than half of our fresh veg and fruit imports in 2022. “It’s likely going to lead to higher food prices when people are already struggling,” says Precious Tshabalala, an agricultural economist at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Renewable energy outperforms carbon capture in key metrics

2 months ago | one5c.com | Tyler Santora

When it comes to decreasing carbon emissions, renewable energy and carbon capture—aka trapping carbon from industrial fossil-fuel burning at the source—sometimes duke it out in the headlines. There are pros and cons on either side: Renewables produce little to no emissions but have high up-front costs. Carbon capture does remove CO2 at the source, but long-term storage options are uncertain.
What’s the difference between energy security and energy independence?

Jul 8, 2024 | one5c.com | Shreya Agrawal

There’s a lot of reasons why we need to be talking about energy security—namely how the term gets bandied about during election cycles. In the first presidential debate, in particular, Donald Trump made a random and offhanded comment about how the U.S. was “energy independent” during the Jan. 6 insurrection (spoiler: This is blatantly false). Energy independence is sometimes used interchangeably with the term energy security, though the concepts are distinct.
Why it’s so hard to measure the climate impacts of conflict

Apr 25, 2024 | one5c.com | Sara Kiley Watson

They might not all make headlines Stateside, but as of today, there are more than 110 armed conflicts occurring across the globe, according to the Geneva Academy of International Law and Human Rights. Most of those conflicts are taking place in climate-vulnerable locations in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The emissions, environmental, and human costs of armed conflict fuel a feedback loop that can perpetuate worsening global conditions.
Shopping tips to reduce food waste

Mar 14, 2024 | one5c.com | Angely Mercado

U.S. consumers are the biggest wasters of food in the country. American households throw away around one-third of the food they purchase. While fighting the climate crisis needs a multi-front approach—pushing for stricter emissions standards, holding fossil fuel companies accountable, and boosting conservation efforts—lowering the amount of food that goes to waste is something every person can do every day. Decreasing the amount of food wasted in U.S. homes each year starts with shopping smart.
Mulched Christmas trees, discounted EVs, and rebounding seagrass

Jan 4, 2024 | one5c.com | Glorie Martinez

Hey team, and welcome back to one5c! I like to think of the first week of the new year as a kind of shoulder season, a time when we look at both where we’ve been and where we’re going. In 2024, we’re turning a page into a new era of EV affordability, pedestrian and cyclist safety (🤞), and very likely another scorcher (😰). Here at one5c, we’re also diving back into climate success stories that explore burgeoning solutions with the potential to swell into big change.
Why is plastic bad for the environment?

Dec 13, 2023 | one5c.com | Hannah Seo

The ubiquity of plastic can be overwhelming to think about. Try to go a day without plastics and you’ll find there are very few things you’re able to do or use or eat or wear: the keys on your laptop, the polyester in your clothes, the coatings and packaging on most grocery store items. Plastic is everywhere. And oftentimes we’ll use it and throw it away without a moment’s pause. The reasons why plastic is bad for the environment, however, go beyond our propensity to use and lose it.
The essential guide to plastic pollution

Dec 13, 2023 | one5c.com | Sara Kiley Watson

Plastic pollution is a nightmare for the climate, ecosystems, agriculture, human health, and the oceans. All of our plastic wrap, bottles, bags, tools, toys, furniture, and other PET and polyester wares end up generating hundreds of millions of metric tons of plastic waste every year—and the problem is set to triple to one billion metric tons by 2060. Worldwide, a tiny fraction of that ends up being recycled, the rest is left to decompose over a span of anywhere from 10 to 500 years.