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WeCycle — Free App Offers Personal Travel Diary & Useful Data For Cities
WeCycle has launched a free app for iPhones (and soon Android devices) that automatically detects multiple modes of transport and crowdsources information about one’s travel patterns. With this app, cyclists will help make urban areas friendlier and safer. The app shows where the town or city needs more investment in bike … [continued]
iPhone App to Encourage Recycling
Next time someone gives you a hard time for messing around on your smartphone, let them know you aren’t just wasting time with Angry Birds or Words with Friends — you’re recycling! Preserve and Recyclebank have gotten together to create an iPhone app that locates the nearest #5 plastics … [continued]
3 Cool Gadgets to Help You Save Energy
We often just go shopping for what we need, or for what is “hot” at the moment (i.e. an iPad 2). While I am definitely not one to support going out and buying things you don’t need, there are a number of cleantech gadgets that can green your life and, thus, help you save money while helping protect the planet.
Here are 3 cool, cleantech gadgets that I think could help you to save energy at home or work…
iPhone Wind Energy App from Vestas
Ever wonder how much electricity you could produce from a wind turbine in your backyard, in your company parking lot, or somewhere else? I know I have. A new iPhone app from Danish wind energy giant Vestas can tell you just that. The Vestas Weather app knows where your iPhone … [continued]
Eco-Artist Creates 'Puff' Device to Monitor Car Emissions
Puff (a car exhaust monitoring device) is attached near the exhaust pipe of your vehicle. Its color changes dynamically, visualizing the amount of pollution your car is producing. Green indicates the lowest rate of pollution, red the highest. Karolina Sobecka, the artist/designer of Puff, explains: In this project, design is used as a strategy to explore the overlap between the material and immaterial worlds and spur discussion on the hidden social and psychological mechanisms behind the cultural use of accessories as ‘objects to think with’…Amateur Human (the design project’s official name) focuses on the environmental issues since we all are inadvertently becoming more eco-conscious whether we want to or not, and these issues seem both overwhelming and ambiguous.
Recycling In San Francisco Made Easy With The iPhone
San Francisco created the “EcoFinder” iPhone App to help residents recycle and dispose of materials. The open data philosophy behind the app is Government 2.0 at work. With the release today of San Francisco’s first iPhone app based on a City data feed, recycling just got much easier for our … [continued]
New iPhone App Measures Your Car's Environmental Impact
The Greenmeter, recently released by Hunter Research and Technologies, is an iPhone application with a mission: to keep track of your car’s carbon footprint and fuel efficiency . The program uses a multitude of variables to make its calculations, including weather conditions, cost of fuel, and vehicle weight.
