We recently took a look at twenty of the greenest iPhone apps available. However, you don’t have to be an iPhone user to have access to great eco-friendly phone apps. You also have a lot of options if you’re an Androider.
Here’s a look at twenty green apps for your Android handset:
3rd Whale Mobile. This is actually a popular iPhone app, too, but the company decided to support Android as well. It offers a wealth of green information including green news, tips for sustainability and a database of green businesses in North America.
CauseWorld. This is a phone app that lets you earn “karma points” for every store that you enter that’s part of the program. You simply walk into a store, check-in on your phone and the points add up. These points can then be used to donate to charities for specific actions. Choose the green charities, and you’re helping the earth just by continuing to do your normal shopping.
Green Tips. As the name suggests, it’s a simple way of receiving a regular stream of green living tips on your mobile phone. These tips can teach you new green habits or just remind you to keep up with the old ones.
Eco Buzz Widget. This green app is described as doing multiple things including delivering “the latest news on climate changes, the best organic items on the market, and which car has the best impact on the earth”. Packed with information, this looks like a great green app for Android users.
Eco Charger. This app lets you know when your Android handset is done charging. You can immediately unplug the charger so that you aren’t draining electricity for no reason.
Print Green. Are you interested in the niche news market of green issues and sustainability in the printing industry? If so then you can download this free app to stay up to date on that green news.
EpiCollect. This Android app puts the lab information for some ecologists onto your mobile phone. You can participate in adding important ecological data to their labs. This is an example of a crowdsourcing information app that is designed to enhance green activism. We’re likely to see more green apps like this for all phones as crowdsourcing becomes more and more popular.
IAmGreen. This app aims to “ecofit” your smartphone. Use it to reduce the amount of power wasted when using your mobile phone. Plus, when you download this app, a tree will be planted. This one is available for Android, iPhone and BlackBerry.
Mobile Banking from USAA. Mobile banking is becoming increasingly popular. It’s a green activity if for no other reason, than it saves a trip to the bank. This mobile app even lets people deposit their checks using their mobile phones. This is a great example of a green finance app.
Seasonal Harvest. Do you want to eat only those foods that are local to your environment during a certain season? This app uses your Android phone’s GPS technology to inform you what those foods are.
Green Mileage. This simple Android app lets you easily track how far you’re driving in your car. It’s a mobile phone option for keeping track of how much gas you’re guzzling.
Ecorio. This app isn’t available in the Android marketplace yet, because they’re still working on updating it. However, it’s a promising green app that won a huge chunk of money in the original Android Developer Challenge back in 2008. It’s designed to make it super-easy for you to track your carbon footprint using your mobile phone as well as to offset that footprint with carbon credits. Supposedly, the new updated version is going to have some exciting features; we’ll have to wait and see!
Green Driving Gauge. Have you learned about the tricks that hyper-milers use to get better gas mileage? This green app helps you figure out how to easily implement those methods into your current driving routine.
GreenYou. Calculate your carbon footprint using this app. That’s not all though, you can then go on to make a green plan so that you’ll reduce that footprint in your own individual way.
The Amish. This is just a short publication about the Amish and their way of life which you can download to your Android handset. This culture of people is super-green so this could definitely be some inspiring green reading!
iGreenCircle. This is a social network app intended to connect green-minded people to one another. It doesn’t seem to be especially popular yet, but there’s a lot of potential for something like this in the market.
Carbon Meter. This app tracks the activities that you engage in that are friendly to the earth, such as jogging and walking. It can help provide you with an incentive to keep on behaving in a way that keeps your carbon footprint small.
PedNav. One of the ways that you can make your carbon footprint smaller is by making sure that you use the most efficient route possible to get everything done that you need to do during the day. That’s what this app will teach you.
Recycle Guide. If you’re using your Android handset on T-Mobile then you can get this app which shows you what, where and how to recycle a variety of different items in the UK. T-Mobile users in the US will want to look into the Green Perks app.
PowerTutor. These are all great green apps but are you actually using too many apps on your phone? This app helps you to clearly see how much power your apps are wasting on your phone. It’s a green app to organize all of your other apps and make your phone more efficient!
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