Environmentally Friendly Applications for iPhone

If you're really serious about living a green lifestyle, the Good Guide app for iPhone is a good tool to help you get started. This app helps you find safe, healthy and sustainable products just by scanning the barcode of the product and immediately displays detailed ratings of its health, environmental and social aspects. The app covers household chemicals, toy, personal care and food products, practically all the things you need to have a green lifestyle. Features of the app include more than 65,000 product ratings for food, personal care, toys and household cleaners, a facility for creating personalized shopping lists and a list of products to avoid.

(Price: Free)

Developed in collaboration with a LEED Accredited Professional and a professional Sustainability Consultant, this app provides you with a complete guide to living sustainably. It contains a huge collection of green projects and resources that would certainly inform and educate you about living green. The app also features more than 100 projects, sharing features, links to various carbon footprint calculators, breakdown of certified green products, full glossary of green terms and more.

(Price: $0.99)

For a source of green news and announcements delivered straight to your iPhone, Tree Hugger is your best bet. Tree Hugger aims to be the one-stop shop for green news, solutions and product information. The app lets you see the latest green news, read articles from various categories, listen to podcasts, see what's hot on Tree Hugger, read articles from your favorite green authors, and also check out Tree Hugger's Twitter feed. The app also lets you share information on your Facebook Wall or Twitter account.

(Price: Free)

Here's a great app that will surely have a great impact on your environment advocacy. What the app does is to calculate CO2 emissions based on your lifestyle choices. These choices include various activities you do in your daily life including driving, flying and using household appliances. With its simple and user-friendly interface, this app also helps you determine which of your actions consume the most amount of energy and suggests how you can reduce its impact to the environment as well as help you save some money.

(Price: $1.99)

GreenMeter is a pretty good app for computing your vehicle's power and fuel usage characteristics and to evaluate your driving to increase fuel efficiency, reduce fuel consumption and cost to reduce your environmental impact. The app displays the results in real-time which could be while you are driving so as to give you a quick feedback if you are currently consuming more than what you should be consuming. You can use this app more effectively while on the road, although it would still come in handy when you are about to hit the road so that you can plan out your driving strategy. One great feature of the app is that it allows you to simulate acceleration and its effect, aerodynamic drag and rolling resistance across various speed ranges. Surely, this green iPhone app will help you live a green lifestyle whether you are hypermiling or eco-driving.

(Price: $5.99)