Keen on adding a little green to your iPhone? Evidently, you’re not the only user with a hankering for handy planet-friendly apps.
Check out these four that make your hand-held machine a little more green.
The greenMeter – $5.99
The greenMeter is powered to keep track of your car’s fuel efficiency. By calculating both basic and advanced variables - among them weather conditions, vehicle weight, rolling resistance and fuel cost – the app can let you know what your vehicle is really costing you… And the environment.
Just place the greenMeter on your dashboard or in your console and it will calculate and display easy to read graphs (but keep your eyes on the road, of course).
A Real Tree – donation
Your investment in A Real Tree contributes towards reforestation in different countries around the world. The app itself shows a virtual tree that can blow or blossom, but the real message is through the donation towards saving trees globally.
3rdwhale Mobile - free
This is the first location-based app to help you find green and sustainable businesses. All businesses in the directory are evaluated to ensure their green factor. Organized by food, retail, eco-travel, wellness, transportation, and services, this app also features ratings and reviews, with 15,000+ listed.
MeterRead – 99 cents
Developed by Zerogate, MeterRead eliminates any form of confusion when attempting to decipher your home electricity meter. Just match your home electric meter dials to the readings on the app’s Graphic Pointers to get an accurate reading. After each reading, the app gives you feedback on your energy use, that can, in turn, help you figure out how to reduce your monthly energy consumption. The application calculates total kilowatts per hour between each reading and the average watt load. It can also forecast your 30-day kilowatts per hour usage stats.
shopgreen – free
Shopgreen calculates, logs and saves “green” actions by the user. The more green you do, the more you are rewarded: shopgreen tracks the iPhone holder’s progress, and tallies them in the Eco-Bank, which can result in free stuff (such as coupons and specials). It also provides daily tips, green suggestions, and recipes.
Go Green (free) and Green Tips (free) and The Green Lemur (free) and Get Green (99 cents)
All four apps provide a pile of green tips. Simple.
Good Guide - free
Good Guide is a large source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of products and companies. Over 65,000 products are listed, each rated to show the user exactly what goes into your favourite shampoo/cereal/glue (and so forth). You can also make personalized shopping lists, so the info is handy at your finger tips when you are out making your purchases.
iLocavore - free
From Locallectual is a tool for those who want to shop and buy local. With iLocavore, you can find locally made goods at home and on the road, covering the US and Canada. A great app for travelers to keep in mind.
Do you have a favourite green app that you can’t do without? Tell us about it, we’ll add it to our list.
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Molly, on March 25th, 2009 says:
More incentive to buy an iPhone!!!! Nooooo I’m so poor!
I love the ideas of these!
Chris, on March 25th, 2009 says:
I have shopgreen and love the freebies!