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If you are starting your journey towards a greener lifestyle or want to improve further the way you sustainably live your day-to-day, you can rely on technology to achieve your goals. The different applications we describe below can help you make informed decisions in the various areas of your life. It will help you perform small but significant actions contributing to our family’s and planet’s wellbeing.
FOOD AND PRODUCTS
HowGood
Search and scan more than 250,000 food products, and discover if your food is sustainable, healthy and honest throughout your production process, and in this way, which will help you choose products that meet your standards and align with your values. HowGood has the most extensive database with more than 350 independent sources, which rate the products on their impact on three benchmarks: growth patterns, processing practices, and company conduct.
More info: www.howgood.com
OLIO
It’s an application to share food and combat food waste, one of the biggest problems facing humanity today. Connect neighbors with each other and volunteers with businesses so that surplus food and other items can be shared, not discarded. Besides, you can connect with the community and discover their healthy lifestyles!
More info: www.olioex.com
HappyCow
This application is a locator of more than 100,000 vegan, vegetarian, plant, and organic restaurants near you anywhere, the application provides lists and maps of healthy meals in more than 185 countries. Find reviews or look for organic restaurants anywhere in the world when you travel. Discover local health food stores, bio stores, farmers markets, food trucks, juice bars, and vegan stores.
More info: www.happycow.net
CLOTHES AND FUN
thredUP
The largest online resale store of women’s and children’s clothing in the world with more than 35,000 brands and with up to 90% discount. You will not have to leave the house since the clothes are delivered directly to your door. Do you have any clothes you never wear? You can send clothes to receive credit or some cash, or you can choose to donate for a cause.
More info: www.thredup.com
Hoopla
Borrow e-books, audiobooks, comics, music, movies, and TV for free instantly: only with your library card. Download and listen offline on the plane, or transmit during long car trips. You will have instant access to all formats in one application, providing an immersive and multimedia content experience. Titles are returned and automatically deleted from your device at the end of the loan period.
More info: www.hoopladigital.com
PLANTS AND SEEDS
Gardenia
It’s a gardening application that provides botanical information about the plants you grow in your garden, apartment, or balcony, including your vegetable crops. Explore in your database tips on sun exposure, irrigation, fertilization, dirt, and much more useful information about the plants you are growing. You can also schedule your gardening tasks with notifications and get climate-oriented gardening information based on your location, including temperature, humidity, and rainfall.
More info:www.getgardenia.co
Flora
A productivity application to keep focused and be productive when you must perform a task. It encourages us to leave the distraction of smartphones aside. You simply sow a digital seed, and it will grow into a tree while the phone remains untouched. But yes, if you get distracted and end up using your phone, the tree will die, and you will have the possibility to pay by planting one in real life.
More info: www.flora.appfinca.com
TIPS AND PRODUCT SEARCH
SDGs in Action
This application has been developed to highlight the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a list of tasks around the world to end poverty, reduce inequalities, and address climate change. Learn about the 17 SDGs, get news about your favorite goals, discover what you can do to take steps to help achieve them, get inspired and create your own event actions and invite others to join you in sustainable actions and events. Way to jumpstart a change in your own community!
More info: www.sdgsinaction.com
Oroeco
An application that allows your climate impact by tracking your carbon footprint and understand how the daily life of your life connects with global warming, depending on your consumption of electricity, transportation, food, shopping and leisure activities. Offering personalized advice to reduce pollution will help you save money.
More info: www.oroeco.com
JouleBug
It offers tips to make your daily habits more sustainable, discover how you can use resources without depleting them and also allows you to share your advances and tricks with other users through videos and statistics on consumption and savings. You are awarded points with each positive action that correlates with the impact that the action has on your wallet and the environment. Join local communities to get the latest sustainable news, limited edition actions and badges, as well as gain access to local challenges.
More info: www.joulebug.com
GoodGuide
Search or scan safe and healthy consumer products based on scientific classifications for thousands of foods, personal care, and cleaning products. It provides scientific health, environmental, and social qualifications in a huge product database. Explore the ingredients, the nutritional value, the effects of chemical substances on health and discover alternatives with this easy tool, discover better alternatives for your daily purchases, identify the best-qualified products in the market, among others. The GoodGuide Rating was developed using methodologies based on computer science and health risk assessment. Products are rated from a minimum of 0 to a maximum of 10. The higher the rating, the better the product from a health perspective.
More info: www.goodguide.com
EWG’s Healthy Living
Environmental Working Group combined in this app two of their most popular resources, their Skin Deep and Food Scores databases, Ratings for more than 120,000 food and personal care products. Just scan a barcode, search by name or browse by category, and EWG will give you an easy-to-understand 1-10 score (1 being the best!) backed by science you can trust.
More info: www.ewg.org/apps/