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iPhone Apps That Can Save You Gas


While you wait for us to test drive the Kiwi, you may have options for how to save gas by using your iPhone. Earth2Tech has found 5 iPhone applications that will make you feel a little cooler than using, say, a notepad and pen to track your mileage – and they’ll help you monitor and save on gas. Luckily, they cost about the same as a new notepad at the drug store.

AccuFuel ($0.99) - formerly MPG - tracks your mileage and gives you some fancy graphs and comparisons of each tank-full, based I’m sure more on your driving performance than your car’s performance. FuelGage($0.99) and GasHog do the same thing as AccuFuel but don’t have the pretty graphs. All three of these are just $0.99. There is also CarStat which is like FuelGage and GasHog but it is $1.99. Not the best deal. And if you don’t want to spend anything at all to save money on gas, you can grab WHERE (free), which tells you the gas prices from the nearest stations so you can find the cheapest one without wasting gas driving around doing your own comparisons.

Unless you’re super serious about saving gas with your phone, these apps are likely to be cool novelties for about two days, and then you’ll wonder why you spent $0.99 when you have a perfectly good notepad and pen in your glove box.

Via Earth2Tech

 

EcoURLs: Saving the Environment With Social News

I know you like to spread the word about environmental problems and solutions. You probably send email blasts to your family, and save articles to share with friends. When gas prices come up in conversation, you explode with information on Coskata's $1/gallon cellulosic ethanol and the Chevrolet Volt.

But what if there was a better way to share environmental news with even more people. And what if you could do it without leaving your desk! Sounds pretty awesome right?

Well, for the last few months, Muhammad Saleem and I have been brewing up EcoURLs.com to help us do just that. It's like a social news site...but better.

Every story at EcoURLs is linked to other social news sites, so you can digg, reddit, stumble, and bookmark at delicious all from one place in a matter of seconds. Thus, if you like the content, you can help promote it at all of these places, and ensure that it gets the traffic it deserves.

The content will be submitted by a hand-picked selection of the best envirobloggers out there. Editors from the biggest and best blogs will be submitting the stories that they care about and think need the most exposure. But it's up to us to help them get that exposure.

So head to EcoURLs.com and let me know if you like what you see.

 

Google Apocalpyse: The Year 2100 via Google Earth

We hear all the time about the climate models scientists are putting together, and about the average rise in temperature throughout the globe. But it all seems a little bit abstract. Until you click on this link (assuming you have the most recent version of Google Earth.)

The link is to a KMZ file created by the U.K. government's Met Office, and it'll show you exactly what climate scientists are seeing. They've loaded a Google Earth skin with medium-range, accepted climate data. It shows some pretty significant increases right now. But the real scare happens after you click "play."

The KMZ file takes you through the next hundred years of climate change, which has particularly startling consequences for the north pole. While average increase in global temperatures might only be a few degrees, areas of the Arctic Ocean will increase by as much as 18 degrees C.

The file is also filled with data on expected regional impacts, which include water shortages throughout the US and an ice-free arctic by 2050.

Thanks to Google and Met for putting this together, it's pretty fascinating to see this data in such a simple and dramatic way.

Via Google Earth Blog

 

Manodo Energy Screen Keeps Tabs on your Consumption

You're feeling pretty good about yourselves these days. Walking? Check. Cycling? Check. Recycling? Check.

But if there's a nagging feeling that there's more to be done, then a Swedish company has the device to help you maintain that guilt complex. The Manodo display from a startup company in Sweden puts green habits to the test.

The device gives household residents all the facts about how much and what is being used, right down to the number of pounds of CO2 emissions from your last bath. Imagine having Al Gore living in your house reminding you each time you forget to turn off the lights. The intent is to keep residents aware of how much resources are being consumed through daily activities...and maybe guilt them into changing their ways.

The monitor also provides current information like the weather and when the next tram is scheduled to arrive at the nearest stop. Now being tested in the hallways of 15 apartments, the Manodo project isn't all about negative feedback. When good green levels in the apartment are reached, a green smiley face appears on the display. How else are you supposed to know if you're a good person?!

 

Huddler: The Finest Green Shopping Community So Far


There are a lot of product recommendation engines in the world. In fact, one could make a pretty good case that there are, in fact, too many. But Huddler may have actually gotten it right this time.

They've launched their service with a green spin at greenhome.huddler.com. The site is a blog, a social network, a wiki, and a recommendation system all rolled into one. I've spent the last hour on it, enjoying myself tremendously.

I've written reviews of a few green products I own (like the Earth LED CL-5) and I marked a few items as things that I very much would like to own (like the Chevy Volt.)

The system is extremely simple to use, not to mention pleasing on the eyes. There seems to be a pretty good community growing up inside of the site, not to mention a huge amount of information on thousands of green products. You can subscribe to users, discussions, topics...anything! It's a joy to use.

Of course, like all social sites, there is a battle to be fought for participation. It will only be a truly enjoyable and robust platform if a large community adopts the site. In order to entice folks, they've got a giveaway going on right now, which you enter yourself into every time you do ANYTHING on the site. So that's nice.

But we'll have to wait and see if huddler can somehow create a chicken without an egg.

 
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