About
Our mission
Every individual has a role to play in combating the climate emergency. one5c distills behavior into impact, and surfaces the meaningful changes everyday folks can make to help save the world. That could mean breaking up with a bank that has oil money on its hands, exploring all the chemicals you can replace with baking soda, or hitting the garage-sale circuit instead of the big-box store.
Our name
one5c—or 1.5 degrees celsius—is the global-warming tipping point. According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, holding our average temperature uptick below that threshold (around 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit for the Yanks in the room) can avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Our story
one5c was founded as a climate-action newsletter in 2021 by Joe Brown, a veteran science and tech journalist who ditched corporate media to focus on the only story that matters: the environment. In May 2023, one5c was acquired by Fragment Media—hanging out with cool pubs like The Daily Dot, Nautilus, and Passionfruit—and began the work of expanding a one-man-band newsletter into the go-to resource for living a climate-fixing existence. Brown now serves as one5c’s Publisher, and Corinne Iozzio, also an award-winning and veteran journalist, is its Editor-in-Chief.
About Cool Beans
Cool Beans is about eating for the planet in a way that’s as delicious as it is accessible. Our prime directive is to serve up the recipes and choices each of us can make every day to reduce the amount of planet-warming gasses that get spat into the atmosphere. That means a lot of things—from diving into the footprint of organic produce to identifying the lowest-impact cooking oil—but primarily it’s about two: substantially cutting down on meat and not wasting food. Taken together, those two actions can trim any individual’s emissions by 12%.
Our team
Publisher & Editorial Director: Joe Brown
Editor-in-Chief: Corinne Iozzio
Associate Editor: Sara Kiley Watson
Copy Editor: Donna Ng
Editorial Intern: Olivia Gieger
Contributors (one5c): Matt Berical, Leslie Horn Peterson, Maddy Lauria, Angely Mercado, Bridget Reed Morawski, Tyler Santora, Caroline Saunders
Contributors (Cool Beans): Liza Schoenfein, Gabriella Vigoreaux
Social Media: Pennant Digital