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17 Green iPhone Applications Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, City University London

http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/

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In June 2009 we collaborated with the Centre for Food Policy in the School of

Community and Health Sciences at City University to develop an online micro-module

on sustainable development. The aim of the module was to introduce the subject of

sustainability to all University students and staff members.

We approached this design task by carrying out various user research activities, which

led to a number of conceptual prototypes before the final design was chosen and

implemented. Discussions with the stakeholders led us to focus on the undergraduate

students as our main target audience early on in the process.

This presentation lists the sustainability related iPhone apps we came across during the

research stage of the project.

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1) 3rdWhale (£1.19) http://www.3rdwhale.com/mobile

3rdWhale's mobile application for the Apple iPhone lets you power up your green lifestyle. Find the nearest vegetarian restaurant,

fair trade store, yoga center or bicycle shop. You can also use 3rdWhale Mobile to plan your next trip. Feel good that your purchases

will match your values.

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Features Include:

� 4 Green Categories: Food, Ecotourism, Retail, Spa/Fitness

� Check out "What's Around" and "Search" for green places

� Rate the greenness of a business

� Add your favorite green place F

� lag offensive/inappropriate listings

� Submit your suggestions to improve 3rdWhale mobile

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2) Shopgreen (£0.59) http://www.viralmesh.com/shopgreen/home.htm

Shopgreen tracks and logs your Eco-friendly activities. Be rewarded by local advertisers based on your reduction of carbon emissions.

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Features Include:

� CO2 calculators

� Calculate, track and record CO2 savings in Eco-Bank

� Tips and helps for recycling, transportation, home and shopping decisions

� Maps and information of nearby recycling centers

3) Green Energy Now (£0.59) http://www.appstorehq.com/greenenergynow-iphone-9091/app

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Stay up to date on the latest Green Energy News, learn how to protect the environment and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels,

and share your knowledge with others. Impress your friends with your knowledge of Green Energy, and test your knowledge with

Green Trivia Challenge.

Features Include:

� Green Facts to expand your horizons (and give you some interesting cocktail party conversation)

� Green Ideas to help you save money and help protect the environment

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� Green News to keep you up to date on alternative energy, solar, wind and bio-fuels, recycling, and clean energy technologies

� Green Resources to help you learn more about topics of interest

� Green Trivia Challenge to test your knowledge of current issues

� Submit your own Green Facts, Ideas and Trivia Questions and share your expertise

4) iGreen (£0.59) http://twenty79.com/iGreen_LucidOne_Communications

iGreen is an application that lets you keep up to date will all the latest Green Tech, Clean Tech, Solar, Hybrid and other Green news.

We take all the information from all of your favorite sites and many more and put them on your iPhone for you! iGreen also takes full

advantage of the iPhone's Accelerometer so you can read your gossip in portrait, landscape, upright or even upside down! We'll add

more feeds as we go so make sure you keep us informed with more links! Sites Include: About My Planet, Azo CleanTech,

VentureBeat, Green Biz, Green Computing, Hybrid Car Blog and many more!

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5) A Real Tree (£0.59) http://www.arealtree.com/forest/info

When you buy A Real Tree app, a real tree gets planted in 12 countries fighting deforestation: Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama,

Cameroon, Ethiopia, Burundi, Senegal, Zambia, India, Philippines, and Haiti.

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6) Carbon Tracker (Free)

With the app installed, users can easily calculate the carbon footprint from daily commuting, vacations, or business trips. iPhone 3G’s

built-in GPS is used to determine the approximate distance of each trip segment, and users can also set monthly “maximum

emission” goals and monitor their progress against defined targets.

Other features of Carbon Tracker include the ability to select preferred units of measurement for distance and amount of carbon

emissions. Transportation emission factors are based on averages from tools developed by the World Resources Institute.

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Features Include:

� Chart your annual footprint

� Monitor progress against monthly goals

� Emission factors for automobile, airplane, rail and other vehicles

� Use GPS to determine approximate length of trip

7) The Green Lemur (Free)

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The Green Lemur was created to help guide people to living a greener lifestyle. The app offers a wide variety of green tips

conveniently organized helping you make the most green decisions as you go about your life. Easily search for tips or even add ones

you like to your favorites menu. Let the green lemur lead you to a greener life today! Download the app for free and let us know what

you think. Ability to add tips is coming with the next version.

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8) Green Meter (£3.49) http://hunter.pairsite.com/greenmeter/

greenMeter is an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that can compute your vehicle's power and fuel usage characteristics, and help

evaluate your driving style to increase efficiency, reduce fuel consumption and cost, and lower your environmental impact. Based on

the gMeter vehicle performance app, greenMeter uses the device's internal accelerometer to measure forward acceleration and

compute engine power, fuel economy, fuel cost, carbon footprint, and oil (barrels) consumption.

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9) Car Care (£2.99) http://www.karlbecker.com/carcare/

Car Care automatically calculates your gas mileage, right at the pump. Learn how different fuel octanes perform; gas mileage is

calculated for every type of fuel you fill up with, and you can define your own fuel types.

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Features Include:

� Multiple vehicles - track multiple automobiles of any make or model, using your own photo

� Currency - Use any currency: USD$, CAD$, Euros €, Sterling Pounds £, Yen ¥, or anything else

� Fuel octanes - track the fuel applicable to your vehicles

� Input numbers using either a numeric keypad or spinning wheels

10) Get Green (£0.59)

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Get Green for iPhone is a great app for celebrating Earth Day everyday that gives you a new tip for staying environmentally friendly

each day. The app also lets you Save a tip you like to your favorites and share a tip with your friends via email.

10) Go Green (Free)

So many eco-friendly tips, so little time to learn them … so why don’t you learn them on the go?! With Green Tips and Go Green,

you’ll get a brand new eco-friendly tip every time you launch the application. They are both fairly similar, but each will give you a

different tip. Double the tips, double the fun!

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11) GoodGuide (Free)

For the first time, GoodGuide provides iPhone users access to the world's largest and most reliable source of information on the

health, environmental and social performance of everyday products and companies. That’s free, easy, mobile access to data on over

70,000 products — from shampoo to household cleaners.

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12) iRecylce (Free) http://earth911.com/iphone/

iRecycle makes it easy to find recycling locations anywhere in the U.S. Find places to drop-off your old cell phone (or water bottle or

motor oil or… well, you get the idea), get directions and find out what else they accept.

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Features Include:

� Access to over 100,000 recycling and disposal locations for over 200 materials

� Get directions to the nearest site from your current location

� Auto-complete saves time typing so you can spend more on finding a location convenient to you

� Check your search history to replay old search results

� Find additional information for each location like hours of operation, other materials accepted (hey, maybe you can recycle

all those plastic bags from under your kitchen sink), their Web site, etc.

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� Call locations directly from search results

13) Green You (£0.59)

Calculate your carbon footprint and create your own plan to be more green.

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14) iLocavore (Free) http://enjoymentland.com/locavore/

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The Locavore iPhone app will come in handy next time you’re at the market and want to know what’s actually being grown near you,

and what is most likely to taste the best right now. Whether you’re just trying to become more aware of what’s in season around

you, or you are fully committed to eating only locally grown food, this app will help you know what your options are.

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Features Include:

� Automatically detects which state you’re in (currently only covers the US)

� Food that’s in season near you

� Food that’s coming in season near you soon

� Farmers’ markets near you

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� Browse all 234 fruits and vegetables to see where it is currently growing

� Links to Wikipedia articles and Epicurious recipes from each food detail page

� Browse all 50 states to see what’s in season in other parts of the US

15) Green Tips (Free)

15) MeterRead (£1.79)

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Use MeterRead to record and track meter readings. You can set up multiple meters for home, solar, or car. You can also set up

separate meters to track day and night usage of the same source. MeterRead accommodates analog or digital readouts in four- or

five-dial formats.

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16) Recycler (Free)

Created to help you remember what codes are allowed in your local recycling pick up for plastics.

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17) Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care ($15.59)

The essential, parent-friendly guide to raising a healthy child in our increasingly toxic environment. Growing Up Green: Baby and

Child Care is a complete guide to raising healthy kids. Environmental activist and children's advocate Deirdre Imus addresses specific

issues faced by children in every age group -- from infants to adolescents and beyond. With a focus on preventing rather than

treating childhood illnesses, Deirdre concentrates on educating and empowering parents with information such as: How to make sure

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your child is vaccinated safely; Which plastic bottles and toys are least toxic; How to lobby for safer school environments and support

children's environmental health studies; Growing Up Green makes it easy for you to introduce your child to the "living green" way of

life.