Three Ways Text-Messaging Can Reduce Your Impact

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Is eco-texting something that is good for you?

The Bite:

Ooh yeah, it's such a rush. Saving resources with free cell phone text services that tell you the greenest options makes you feel so fine. 

The Benefits:

• Getting down for free. These services cost nothing - you just pay your carrier's usual texting fees (usually ten cents per message).
• Global healing. Get info on the go - which foods have the lowest CO2 footprint, the most sustainable fish species, and the companies with the greenest corporate policies.

Personally Speaking: The listings of the foods lowest in CO2 at the Eat Low Carbon Diet Calculator are pretty extensive, but (and we tried) it doesn't include escargot or Spam.Wanna Try: 

• Bon Appé**** Eat Low Carbon Diet Calculator - check out this site for a particular food's carbon rating and lower-carbon alternatives.
• Blue Ocean Institute FishPhone - text 30644 with the message fish, followed by the variety you want to know about (example: tuna), and it'll fire back sustainability info on that species.
• Climate Counts On-The-Go - text 30644 with the message cc, followed by the name of a major company (starbucks), and it'll let you know how well that organization scores on climate issues.
• Bonus: Google Mobile - text google (466453), enter your starting address, then to, then your destination, and it'll send back directions - no printouts necessary.