20 Ways Your iPhone Can Save You Gas, Energy, Time and Money

Actually, those are good apps for saving money. But, the one about turning lights on and off remotely could actually keep your home from being robbed. Turn lights on at night and then off in the day. Not a bad idea while you're away.

Guys - I know pageviews are important, but the pagination stuff is getting annoying. This could have been done in 2 pages, plus you can hardly see the page numbers! Krakkus!

Are you not noticing the fact that there is nothing here that the iphone can do that other pda/smart phones have done for years? Why are you pushing an apple product over other better products that are not designed to be replaced every year?

As I agree with the notion that saving money is important, I still strongly disagree with promoting the I "most toxic" Phone!

As I mention on my blog, "The Founder's Blog" for the Eco Investment Club, I state that,

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, told the world that he “reinvented the phone” when Apple came out with its new ‘iPhone’.

And in the post I highlight the Youtube clip of the story Greenpeace broke to the world about how toxic the iPhone actually is:

http://www.ecoinvestmentclub.com/content/blogcategory/4/40/

enjoy!

This an excellent article , thanks , I'm grateful to you .

COmpletely unafforable for the average user, and for people who can't get phone plans because of bad credit, you should know that this phone locks you into a 3 year plan with a carrier. Get an iPod Touch instead, and it can use all the same apps from the iTunes store without the hassle of the phone contract.

@EcoConnoisseur: You realize, of course, that the article you're referring to is a year old, and is discussing the original version 1 iPhone?

The new 3G phone, like the other phones mentioned, now uses a PVC-free handset. PVC-free headphones. PVC-free USB cable. Bromine-free printed circuit boards. Mercury-free LCD display. And the majority of the packaging is made from post-consumer recycled fiberboard and biobased materials.

In short, please stop spreading the FUD.

And enjoy!

I've been using the fuelly.com mobile page to input my mileage and keep track of fuel efficiency. When you login to the full site, it'll feed you some basic graphs on your driving history and makes keeping track of everything fairly simple. It requires registration, but is free to use. It also has a basic social networking aspect buit in so you can compare with friends or others with similar car models.

Let's just put a stop to the high gas prices altogether. We could boycott the oil companies and stop buying gas but we just can't do without our vehicles. You can convert your vehicle to a water hybrid. To learn more go to http://stoppayingatthepump.com

Another way you can save time, money and trees with your iPhone (or any other cell phone for that matter) is to subscribe to a service like TextID--a great way to go green on your business cards and brochures.

TextID, allows users to purchase unique text “domains”, such as their names or businesses that allows them to pass along contact information and messages quickly and conveniently. They can give out their ID, lawn care or Angie for example, and the recipient texts that name to 555411. In just a few moments, they will receive a text back to their phones with contact information and the message the TextID member has chosen, which can also include a link to a pdf brochure.

Obviously the new service has a wide range of applications, from personal to commercial. Whether for realtors looking to get pricing and home information into a potential buyer’s hand while they are out looking for a home, a hip teacher providing up-to-date assignment and test information, a restaurant passing on weekly specials, a club promoter pushing the weekend band, or someone just looking to make the dating scene a bit easier, Text ID can work perfectly for a variety of users.

There is a free trial right now on the site at www.textid.com if anyone wants to check it out.

I commend you on this article and despite the fact that most every product we buy or use has had some negative environmental impacts, people are going to continue to consume (although hopefully less in the future). So many of this Apps on an iPhone can reduce the impacts of our consumption.

My company, 3rdwhale.com, just launched the beta version of a free location based service for iPhones that allows people to be green on the go by leveraging iPhone's GPS and capabilities to find anything you'd like to do in a city in a greener way (eat, adventure, hotels, etc.). We have more than 50 cities in our database right now. We are however only doing an Ad-Hoc distribution through Apple so we can only take in 100 beta users right now. If you are interested please check out http://www.3rdwhale.com/luna to learn more or to sign up.

the itrans app is NOT $.99. In NYC at least it is $5, a big difference!

Please fact check these sorts of things before you disappoint lots of people - such as myself!

If you must drive, one should check out an app called Spotasaurus in the App store. It lets one search for parking garages in every major US city and compare rates. I've used in in NYC, Boston, DC and SF so far (yes, I travel alot) and it works like a charm, leverages the GPS in the new iPhone and has already saved me over $50 in parking by finding a cheaper garage near where I was going. Plus, I saved gas by not driiving around looking for a place to park. I highly recommend it.

A great resource to saving gas is www.gasbuddy.com. You can find the cheapest gas in your town. Also try www.savegas4you.com. They sell innovative new ways to easily save gas.

Save Gas 4 You

Last week we gave a talk on carticipation at the Silicon Valley iPhone Developers' Meetup and we posted it on youtube (can be viewed in high quality):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaphdB6Wafs

These programs look cool, and this is a great way to fully utilize the innovative technology that powers the new generation of smart phones.

However, I must address one comment in particular here, the one about running your car on water. Yes you can burn hydrogen in an internal combustion engine design. But there is one big problem. You can't get something for nothing. The process of dividing a water molecule to obtain hydrogen is called electrolysis. This process requires a massive amount of energy. Anyone claiming they can simply run a car on water at a higher efficiency level than with Gasoline or Diesel is wrong. More energy is actually required to initialize hydrogen combustion than petroleum combustion, because of the extra step (electrolysis). It only becomes sustainable when the power grid derives the majority of its energy from renewable resources.

Primospot now has an iPhone app for sale. In addition to on-street parking and rules, they now show parking lots/garages and blike racks too.