Green Living

Green and tech are well acquainted by now. So if you’re a technophobe who wants to save the planet, you’re in luck. Here are a few web and tech-savvy tools to help you plug into your planetary passion.

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Magazine Addict:

• At The Read Green Initiative get a one-year subscription to a digital, tree-free rag for free and then subscribe to more knowing part of your purchase will buy an ecounit to help plant trees.

iPhone Toter:

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  3rdWhaleMobile’s app points you to green businesses “from yoga studios to bicycle shops to organic restaurants” wherever you happen to be.

• Recycling guru Earth 911 is in on the app game with irecycle; it’s got over 100,000 recycling locations at your proper disposal.

• Locavore reveals what fruits and veggies are in season, where to find them and how to cook em up.

• And Seafood Watch is the app to check before you order to make sure your dinner eschews overfishing and keeps our oceans healthy.

Office Dweller:

• Leave it to lifehacker to show us how to go totally paperless.  There’s also Change The Margins for when you have to hit print.  Finally, geeksugar has a roundup of online calendars to replace the paper, carry with you kind.

Social Animal:

• I’ve been pingging people with pingg’s clean, well-designed digital invites since last Thanksgiving. I’m also thankful for its e-card selection for anytime greetings.

College or Cubicle-Bound:

• Before you buy, find the greenest electronic devices (aka most energy-efficient) at Green Electronics and get the scoop on new, novel eco-gadgets at Envirogadget.

Money Maven:

• After the initial set-up, Mint automatically aggregates all your money matters in one place. I like it for its weekly e-mail updates on my accounts and sometimes special offers (like the free credit score I got last year). It’s paper-free and pretty darn smart.

Carless:

• Let the web tell you what you can walk to in your new or prospective neighborhood at walkscore and how to get around on something other than four wheels at LA Metro’s trip planner or bike map.

Conscious Reducer:

• Online calculators let you figure out your water or carbon footprint and then get down to the business of cutting back.

What other green tech tools do you heart? Let us know in the comments!