Energy Conservation and Green Living

MobGAS is a mobile phone application that provides the user with a detailed image of their daily emissions of Greenhouse Gases. The application, developed by scientists in the European Union, tracks the emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane based on information on daily activities entered by the user. Users can enter the information on a website and then compare their emissions with national and international averages.

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MobGAS is an original idea developed by the KAM group at the JRC from European Commission, Italy and implemented by MobiComp©, Portugal.

Using mobile phones in direct actions to record images and video (see our moblog profile).

Using a text-for-info service to recruit new supporters and sending out campaign alerts via SMS.

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Greenpeace stands for positive change through action. We defend the natural world and promote peace.

We investigate, expose and confront environmental abuse by governments and corporations around the world.

We champion environmentally responsible and socially just solutions,including scientific and technical innovation.

Greenpeace does not solicit or accept funding from governments, corporations or political parties. Greenpeace neither seeks nor accepts donations which could compromise our independence, aims, objectives or integrity. Greenpeace relies on the voluntary donations of individual supporters, and on grant-support from foundations.

BioDesign has instructions on their website for building a solar charger for a mobile phone.

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By showing people how to make simple small pv panels that they can use to power radios and charge rechargeable cells thus avoiding the need for expensive control devices as well as minimising the cost. Our efforts are aimed at helping the poor in developing countries, the many millions without any electricity.

Flora and Fauna International uses mobiles in their international conservation and sustainable development work.

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Fauna & Flora International is the world's longest established conservation society. We work to conserve threatened species worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take account of human needs.

Additionally, this report is available on the organization's website, www.fauna-flora.org.

Mobile Phones: An Appropriate Tool For Conservation And Development?
Mobile phone technology is developing at an extraordinarily rapid pace and is being applied to an increasingly wide range of human activities and the environment in which we live. It brings both benefits and challenges. This report looks at the implications and applications of mobile phone technology on conservation and development initiatives in the developing world.

Greenpeace has used mobile phones in environmental campaigns, such as an SMS campaign to achieve the "Zero Waste Law" in Argentina.

You can learn more on the MobileActive blog here.

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Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by:

Catalysing an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our planet: climate change.

Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and destructive fishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves.

Protecting the world’s ancient forests and the animals, plants and people that depend on them.

Working for disarmament and peace by tackling the causes of conflict and calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.

Creating a toxic free future with safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals in today's products and manufacturing.

Campaining for sustainable agriculture by rejecting genetically engineered organisms, protecting biodiversity and encouraging socially responsible farming.