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Of the disposable plastics filling up our shower shelves and medicine cabinets, toothpaste tubes are among the most unavoidable. Soap, shampoo, conditioner, and shaving cream all come in bar form. A stainless-steel safety razor can replace countless single-use blades. You could even opt for silk or plant-based floss and trade your throwaway toothbrush for an electric one that’ll last years.

This article has been updated. It originally published on Jul. 29, 2023. The average American eats around 180 eggs a year, which makes sense: Eggs are a versatile, delicious, convenient source of protein. One large egg has 6 of the 65-ish grams a 180-pound person needs in a day, and, like all animal proteins, it’s complete, meaning it’s got all the amino acids our bodies need to function. Eggs present a sustainability paradox, however.

The number of people who care about the climate but don't vote could swing an election—including this year's midterms. Between 12 and 13 million people who worry about the impacts of a warming world don’t vote in midterm elections, according to an estimate shared with one5c by the Environmental Voter Project (EVP), a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on increasing turnout among climate voters. One reason for such a spread?

This article has been updated. It originally published on Aug. 6, 2024. Unless you’ve embraced a life of nudity, you’ve got loads of dirty laundry to deal with. But spin-cycling and tumble-drying our clothes sheds more than ketchup stains, perfumed lotions, and sock sweat. One load of laundry can emit hundreds of thousands—by some estimates even up to 10 million—teeny, tiny microfibers.

Google “how many razors go to the landfill each year?” and you’ll land on dozens of articles citing an EPA stat from the 1990s saying billions of pieces of shaving waste hit the dump every year. That number might be aged and iffy, but you don’t need to do much more than walk down the grooming aisle at your local CVS to sense that it’s not exactly overblown. Those flashy, plastic-y, multi-blade shavers aren’t only bad news for the planet; They can also be murder on your dermis.

More Americans are trying to rewrite their relationship with stuff. A new year brings fresh efforts to consume less, as no-buy and low-buy challenges resurface from the self-help corners of social media. This year, No-Buy January even appears to be outpacing Dry January in uptake. But curbing our add-to-cart instincts is only part of the equation. The stuff we already have piled up in our homes, according to some consumer psychologists, can also feed into the cycle of overconsumption.

At the beginning of 2025, one5c called out local climate action as one of the biggest stories to watch. Facing a looming tidal wave of deregulation and climate policy rollbacks from the Trump administration, advocates and activists were set to train their attention to cities and states—where one estimate found policy moves could trim nationwide emissions by as much as 62%.

Pop psychology is full of promises about how many days it takes to form a habit. Some say 21 will do the trick. Others tout 66. And still more magic numbers abound. One rub with many of these, though, is that they tend to center on rote repetition to get the job done—a promise that if you just do something enough it’ll become as automatic as fiddling with your cuticles or putting down the toilet seat.

There are all kinds of mental tricks you can deploy to help you stick to a New Year’s resolution, but the lure of the streak is hard to top. Think about the drive some of us feel to solve Wordle every day or the smug satisfaction that comes with silencing the Duolingo owl as it hoots at you to tackle one more lesson. There are even apps specifically for helping you track and maintain an unbroken string. Streaks keep us going for a range of reasons.

We don’t know about y’all, but pretty much the only thing we wanna do right now is burrow into the couch and spend some quality time with a movie—or ten. In the annals of climate flicks, a handful of titles tend to dominate the conversation. Snowpiercer, WALL-E, Mad Max, Moana. Some of those classics can inspire a little hope, but others can leave us huddled under our warmest, heaviest blankets contemplating doom. That’s…not exactly vibe anyone's after in the lost week between now and New Year’s.