GREEN APPS TO
TRACK YOUR CARBON
FOOTPRINT
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emembering to live green can go further than setting a reminder to put out the recycling, buying organic,
and saving all your peelings for compost. Apps for environmentalists, it turns out, are actually a new
frontier for green lifestyle, both for sustainable crusaders with all their local organic food stalls memorized,
and those of us who’ve just woken up to the whole living-green thing. In case revamping your life to
get a bit more eco-friendly seems overwhelming and difficult, no worries: there’s an app for that. And, luckily, it’s
probably served without any sanctimony.
The diversity of green apps out there reflects the fact that there are many ways in which to eco-fy your daily grind,
from commuting choices to shopping decisions to energy consumption. A lot of these suckers just focus on tracking
your actions and suggesting how to make them a little greener — like taking public transport, or switching off
the clothes dryer. Others are collections of ideas for improvement, or data about different places and companies.
They’re resources, not life-changers: we’re not yet at the stage where an app can sort the trash, put sustainably
caught fillets of fish on the table, and convince Liz the stubborn intern to join the carpool. But that day may be
coming. Until then, here are 13 apps to push you into Captain Planet mode.
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WINTER GARDEN MAGAZINE
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MARCH 2019