10 sustainable apps from A-Z From fashion to food, the apps for a truly green lifestyle
The current interest towards sustainability, a principle that can be applied to any area of our lives and to any product that is part of our daily life, is experiencing a new push thanks to a series of apps that want to make life easier for anyone who wants to lead a truly green existence.
Practising Sustainable Habits
AWorld
Renoon is an Amsterdam-based app launched by Iris Skrami, who has envisioned conscious shopping in a single smartphone application. This fashion app bases its purpose on five main pillars: Environmental Protection, Human well-being, Animal Ethics, Innovation & Tech, and Modern Consumption. Once downloaded on the phone, the user should choose the residing country, shopping preferences, the topics of interest connected with the main pillars, and the user's style. After either entering the invitation code or joining the waiting list, the user can access the free app. Having all the sustainable products in one place is one of the convenient features of the platform. The standard to include the brands are material composition, certification of processes, conduct, and labour, so instead of searching for sustainable fashion brands on Google, the chances of saving time to find them on Renoon are high.
Website: Renoon
Good On You
Good On You is another fashion app that collects sustainable and ethical brands under its wing, offering users a platform to search for their favourite brands, of course, if they are listed. This app is supported by Emma Watson, who promotes climate awareness and raises concerns around the fashion industry. Good On You not only provides articles and guides on sustainable fashion but rates brands based on ethics: people (labour source), animal (animal-abuse protections), and planet (energy consumption). It appears as an adviser for consumers who want to shop from eco-friendly or cruelty-free brands. The rating system is quite simple – ‘Great’, ‘Good’, ‘It’s a start’, ‘Not good enough', and ‘We avoid’. These marks are collected through independent sources and information provided by the brand themselves. Currently, the app includes 3 000 brands, among which are Unspun, Womsh, Asket, Finisterre, and others.
Website: Goodonyou
Depop
Being so used to Google, Yahoo, and Bing, as the main search engines, the name Ecosia might sound unfamiliar to most, but it has a feature that stands out from others - donating 80% of its profit from the advertising revenue to plant a tree. Germany-based certified B Corporation app founded by Christian Kroll, an environment enthusiast, has already planted more than 100 million trees by July 2020. The numbers are continuously growing. Ecosia builds its own solar energy plants in Germany, ensuring that all its activities are carbon negative. The platform is believed to not share the users' information with advertisers and third-party trackers. It takes 7 days to automatically delete all the user's personal information due to privacy concerns. Ecosia has over 20 tree-planting projects in 15 different countries: Brazil, Ghana, Uganda, Indonesia, Spain, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Senegal, Nicaragua, Ethiopia, Kenya, Haiti, Madagascar, Tanzania, Peru, and Colombia.
