6 Shares Giving Up Food Waste For Lent: Five Tools Thinking about giving up or addressing wasted food in your home for Lent? Here are some tools that can help you get to Easter successfully. More
6 Shares Would A Rewards Program Encourage You To Recycle More? Rewards programs can increase recycling rates; Norfolk, VA, has made participation in its program even easier with the release of a smartphone app. More
6 Shares BuyPartisan App Helps You Vote with Your Wallet We talk a lot about voting with your wallet, but sometimes it’s hard to know where your food dollars are really going. Even when you try to support smaller brands, you never know whether they’ve just sold to a large corporation that you don’t want taking your money. More
5 Shares A Grocery App to Streamline Your Shopping One of the most useful apps on my phone is a free grocery app called Grocery IQ. As a person who visits the grocery store often, it’s very handy to have my lists all in one place on a device that I always have with me. I can add to it no matter where I am and just pull it out whenever I’m at the store. More
8 Shares New App Lets You Report Water Waste When You Find It A new Los Angeles-focused water waste app allows residents to be good citizens & report leaks and deluges that they come across. More
8 Shares New Foraging App Helps Make the Best Use of Your Edible Finds A new entry into the foraging app family, RipeNearMe allows users to not only find food ripe for the picking, but also to share, trade, or sell it. More
7 Shares Repurpose Your Used Smartphone into a Home Energy Monitor/Remote Control Got an old smartphone or tablet laying around? Probably: we Americans tend to upgrade such devices every couple of years (and, of course, the big carriers would like us to do it even more often). If you’re like me, you’re planning to recycle that device… but finding a way to reuse it would ultimately be […] More
7 Shares Whole Foods Wants To Help You Make Change, Not Waste What if there were a mobile app that helped you live greener and save money, all while helping alleviate global poverty? Check out Whole Planet Foundation’s Make Change, Not Waste app. More
8 Shares GMO Labeling Takes Next Logical Step: There’s an App for That We cover the fights over consumers’ right to know (GMO labeling laws) quite a bit, here at Eat Drink Better. I live in Hawaii, where one of the most contentious battles is currently raging over proposed Bill 2491. GMO companies headquartered in Michigan, Iowa, and elsewhere have made Kauai ground zero not for growing GMO […] More
6 Shares Save Leftovers From The Landfill With This New App Check out this app designed to feed your hungry neighbors. LeftoverSwap, soon to launch, will help us connect our leftovers with someone who craves them. More
6 Shares CarbonDiem: a New App for Tracking Transportation Emissions An inside look at CarbonDiem, a smartphone app that tracks and analyzes the carbon emissions created by your transportation choices. More
8 Shares Could the Environment – and Our Kids – Use Another Superhero? Did you play superhero as a child? Would you like your kids to have even more positive imaginative role models? Then check out Pacha, a new superhero for today’s kids. More
5 Shares Ridesharing Service Ridejoy Comes to the iPhone Still looking for a ride to Burning Man? Not only do you still have some time, but, as of yesterday, you’ve now got more options for finding one. More
8 Shares12 Views Need Upcycling Ideas on the Go? There's an App for That… Cleaning out a closet, or basement, or other space in your home, and just hate to send all of that potentially useful material to the landfill? Sean McKenna and Jenelle Montilone’s Create Change app will show you how to upcycle that “junk” into useful items. More
6 Shares iPhone and iPad Solar Power Suitability Checker App Released A leading UK solar power resource site has just launched their first application for both iPad and iPhone. More
4 Shares Sweet iPhone App for Vegetarians [VIDEO] Great new iPhone app can help you to avoid non-vegetarian ingredients. [social_buttons] For numerous vegetarians and vegans, it is great when a company’s food labels specifically say “contains no animal products” or “contains animal products” — this can save us a bit of time and also, perhaps more importantly, helps us to rest assured that […] More
8 Shares New Facebook App Provides Good Green Reason to Screw Around at Work Need another reason to spend time on Facebook? Or, just getting tired of Mafia Wars, Kidnap!, or even Willy’s Sweet Shop? Today, Timberland and changents officially launch yet another excuse for playing on FB rather than getting your work done: Earthkeepers Hero: Mission Possible. I’ve played around with the app for a couple of days […] More
