Help save the environment and cut your own carbon footprint with these cool ‘green’ iPhone applications available from the iTunes store:

  1. A Real Tree – A Real Tree is a virtual tree that changes with the seasons on your iPhone. It also helps support reforestation by donating money to plant more trees in the real world.

  2. Goodguide – Goodguide helps you pick healthy green products when your out shopping in the supermarket. It has a bar code reader on it that makes looking up items even easier.

  3. Locavore – Provides you with a list of healthy produce that is in season week by week. It can be used locally or when travelling to help you locate farmers markets and restaurants that serve fresh produce.

  4. 3rd Whale’s Find Green – Find Green helps you find healthy living and sustainable businesses at the touch of a button. The GPS enabled app can determine your exact location and help you find the best local green businesses from over 60,000 listings.

  5. NASA’s chemical sniffing app – This app is not available to the general public as its too technologically advanced. This prototype chemical sniffer hooks up to the bottom of the iPhone to sniff out small amounts of ammonia, chlorine, methane and other chemicals to help save lives.