5 Business Apps That Will Reduce Your Carbon Foot Print

Reducing your carbon foot print, whether personal or business, is the focal point of many “Earth saving” conscious people these days. There are plenty of ways a business can become “green” and reduce that foot print. Listed below are five of those ways and explanations of each application.

5 Business Apps to Go Green

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1. PowWowNow - PowWowNow is a free conference call service that can not only help to reduce your business carbon foot print by reducing the need to travel to meeting, but can also help you to save time and money. After a short sign up process, for a conference call simply provide your conference members with a call in number and a private PIN number to access the call. The only costs associated with the service is that each participant will pay for the cost of their own call if charges apply. Also there is a small fee for international users to join in.

2. Avego – Ride to work sharing Avego offers a real time I-Phone App which allows you to save time, money and reduce your carbon foot print by offering to provide the empty seats in your car to other commuters or you can register to fill someone else’s empty space. Registering is free and easy and any payments are handled between drivers and riders.

3. Fuze Meeting is another iPhone app which can assist you in cutting your carbon foot print your carbon by using video conferencing. Parties can share information while using the iPhone. Fuze Meeting is also compatible with other phones including the Blackberry and Android. It saves money and lowers your carbon emissions.

4. Find Green works on the I-Phone and helps you to locate and work with other environmentally concerned businesses in your area that are trying to focus on green and eco-friendly products or business practices. The app will locate the green businesses nearest to you so that you can choose those your business would be compatible with and start communication with them.

5. Bump is an easy to use application for personal and business use that is compatible with I-Phone, Android, and Blackberry phones. It is an excellent tool for those with an interest in eco-friendly business practices.With Bump you can exchange contact information, photos, and documents with potential clients or other business associates who have the Bump application by simply bumping phones together after bringing up the wanted file. This app could potentially have a large impact on your carbon foot print by reducing the use of paper for business cards and small file printing.