With almost everyone owning a Smartphone these days (or at least hoping to see one wrapped up under the tree), it is great to know that there are apps out there for people who are striving for a greener lifestyle. Since the iTunes store doesn’t have a “green” category yet, I thought I’d introduce a few apps that you might have overlooked in the massive selection of apps available.
Energy Monitoring
CarbonCatcher allows you to purchase carbon credits via PayPal. (Free)
Carbon Calc finds your carbon footprint. They combine the toll from your air and automobile travel with your home consumption. You can then compare your total to that of an average American and average European. You can also purchase carbon offsets via PayPal. (Free)
Carbon Tracker allows you to track your annual carbon footprint. You are able to set monthly carbon goals and see emissions charts based on your travel. (Free)
Global Warming Personal Calculator uses country specific estimates to calculate your individual carbon footprint based on your automobile and air travel, household heat consumption, and electricity usage. ($.99)
MeterRead monitors your electric meter enabling you to track your energy. ($2.99)
Twavel has a carbon calculator dedicated to calculating travel related CO2 emissions and a social network so you can brag about your CO2 reductions. (Free)
Green Living Tips
Get Green sends you a green tip every day! ($.99)
Good Guide shows you what’s in 75,000 household products. Some of this will amaze you. (Free)
Gorgeously Green Survival Guide helps you to avoid the harmful chemicals in beauty products like makeup and sunscreen. ($.99)
Green Lemur offers eco-friendly advice on how to lead your lifestyle sustainably. You can check out the tip of the day or browse by a specific topic. (Free)
Green Tips send you a daily tip from the social networking site GreenNexxus. (Free)
Iamgreen offers tips, quizzes, and encourages users to compare their greenness to others. It also makes lifestyle suggestion for how to better use your iPhone and computer to minimize your carbon footprint. ($1.99)
The Green Book dispenses tips and advice from the book of the same name. ($5.99)
Recycling
With iRecycle, you choose from over 100,000 recycling and disposal sites from coast to coast based on either your location or the item you are looking to recycle. (Free)
Local Reuse connects otherwise landfill destined reusable items with people who want/need it. All you have to do is enter your zip code to find what is available in your area. (Free)
Shopping
3rdWhale Mobile helps you to find green restaurants, stores, and travel destinations. (Free)
DirtyProduce is a list of the most and least pesticide laden fruits and vegetables. (Free)
Go Organic helps you find nearby organic grocery stores. (Free)
The Greenpeace Tissue Guide finds the safest brands that use recycled materials and avoid bleaches that contain toxic chlorine compounds. (Free)
Green Sushi Selector shows you how the fish you are about to eat were caught. You are able to search both the English and the Japanese names for fish species. ($.99)
iLocavore shows you where to find locally grown food in your area. (Free)
Seafood Guide lists the most commercially sold fish by region. It then rates those fish for sustainability. (Free)
Shopgreen allows you to enter information about your green habits. The app will then connect you with promotions from local businesses. ($.99)
What’s Fresh allows you to learn what fruits and vegetable are in season. ($1.99)
Whole Food Market recipes allow you to search by ingredient, course or even special diet. There is even a locator to find your nearest Whole goods store. (Free)
Yowza finds coupons for nearby retailers that you present digitally in an effort to save paper. (Free)
Transportation
Bike Your Drive allows you to instantly compute your average speed and elapsed time on your bike as well as the number of calories you burned and pounds of CO2 emissions you’ve offset. You can save multiple routes and geotag photos. (Free)
Car Care helps you to keep track of your fuel economy, carbon footprint, and maintenance schedules for multiple vehicles. ($4.99)
Carticipate makes it easy to organize carpools. You just punch in your departure time and destination and choose from a list of options. (Free)
FuelGauge allows you to track fuel efficiency in different units and over time, calculate fuel costs in different currencies, and analyze fuel consumption for different vehicles. ($.99)
GasHog tracks fuel economy, costs, and consumption trends for different vehicles. It also offers tips for more fuel efficient driving. ($.99)
GreenMeter uses the iPhone’s accelerometer to measure fuel consumption, efficiency, and costs. You can also get information on your car’s carbon footprint and detailed graphs of your fuel consumption. ($5.99)
MyMPG helps drivers maximize their fuel efficiency by evaluating braking forces and acceleration. It even tracks statistics and improvements to your gas mileage over time. ($2.99)
Traffic uses Google traffic feeds and maps traffic congestion around your location. ($1.99)
Amazingly, there are more apps than these that you can choose from! This is just a small selection of green apps out there for the iPhone. It just goes to show you that there is a demand for “green” and “green products”!
What apps do you use? Is a favorite of yours not listed?
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don’t forget Twavel, the fun way to reduce your carbon footprint:
“Twavel plays two important roles. First, it allows users to easily calculate the CO2 emissions that are associated with their travel choices. Second, it allows friends and colleagues to compare their CO2 travel footprints, enhancing motivation to find less polluting travel choices. Highly recommended!”
- Doug McKenzie-Mohr, Ph.D.
McKenzie-Mohr & Associates Inc.
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