The Find Green App (formerly 3rdWhale Mobile)
Think of it like a green Yelp on your phone.
--Treehugger
Armed with a 3rdWhale equipped iPhone, users can quickly and easily search for green businesses in their immediate area, a process that is simplified by the geo-aware phone's GPS.
--Planet Green
3rd Whale is a great example of a company that gets how to succeed in these times: Connect with strong resources, and be one yourself.
--ecopreneurist.com
Environmentally-friendly paper products are a surprisingly contentious subject, but Greenpeace's new tissue guide iPhone app makes the debate over which paper towel brand to buy much easier.
--Fast Company
One of maxgladwell's "10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media"
Find healthy living and sustainable businesses quickly and easily with Find Green from GenGreen Digital Media. The first green location based service, Find Green helps you make everyday choices to reduce your environmental impact and make a difference! The GPS-enabled service can determine your exact location and find everything from yoga studios to bicycle shops to organic restaurants near you. Find Green's database has been dramatically expanded to offer over 60,000 listings in dozens of categories, in hundreds of cities across North America. A perfect companion for traveling, Find Green helps you discover all the best local green businesses and services during your visit.
Key Features:
* Live Green: Crowdsourced sustainable living tips from Creative Citizen Solutions, complete with quantified benefits of how much energy, emissions, water, waste and money you'll save doing them. This tab works in Offline mode.
* Submit, rate and review your favorite green businesses.
* Turn by turn directions to your green destination from your current location.
The first green LBS I've seen, definitely makes sustainable lifestyle easy and accessible. A page that contains hundreds of creative ways to live green and tells me the exact impact each method has on the planet.
-- Organiclover, app store review, June 2009
With your mobile app you are putting desire into action, making it EASY for me to do what I want to do. Perfect. -- Bev, North Carolina, via email
