Top 10 Free & Green iPhone Applications

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Every time you download an application or use your iPhone you are increasing your carbon footprint. One way to offset or reduce your carbon footprint is to download a green application. There are even free green applications that will save you money while you save the environment.Here are 10 free green iPhone applications that you can download to help protect the planet...and your wallet:

1) Mission Zero -- This cool application that provides sustainability news feeds from around the world generated over 55,000 downloads in its first month available to the public.

2) Twavel -- This green social media application offers the ability to share green travel tips with the entire Twavel community, and it also has a carbon emissions calculator for common types of travel.

3) Green Card -- Instead of wasting paper to make personalized business cards, you can use this green application to share your contact information with digital business cards.

4) Clear Standards Carbon Tracker -- Measures your annual carbon footprint and even lets you monitor your own progress against personal carbon emission reduction goals.

5) Greenpeace Recycled Tissue and Toilet Paper Guide -- Perfect app to use when you’re at the grocery store and want to find the greenest tissue, toilet paper, napkins, and paper towels.

6) GoodGuide -- Learn what’s behind the label of over 70, 000 products that you use every day, and get instant green product recommendations delivered straight to your iPhone.

7) 3rdWhaleMobile -- Search for green restaurants, shopping centers, spas, and more in a surrounding city with this free application from 3rd Whale Media.

8) Whole Foods Market Recipes -- That’s right, Whole Foods has its own free green application, and it delivers you healthy recipes that you can eat any time of the day.

9) Green Gas Saver -- This green application from Appleseed Software monitors your car’s fuel efficiency and teaches you how to be a better fuel efficient driver.

10) iRecycle -- Get access and directions to over 100,000 recycling and disposal locations around the U.S.