pimg alt="ecorio_nov_08.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/ecorio_nov_08.jpg" width="173" height="49" /How can your mobile phone help you live a greener life? Quite easily, it turns out - if you have a a href="http://www.t-mobileg1.com/"G1/a./p pa href="http://www.ecorio.org"Ecorio/a is a carbon footprint calculator developed by a href="http://www.ecorio.org/ecorio.htm"five guys from Ontario/a, and one of the ten apps awarded $275,000 by the recent a href="http://code.google.com/android/adc.html"Android Developer Challenge/a./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12751amp;cb=12751' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12751amp;n=12751' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pstrongHow Ecorio Works/strong/p pOnce you've downloaded the application, Ecorio runs in the background and keeps track of your trips using a href="http://www.htc.com/www/product/g1/specification.html"G1's GPS/a navigation feature. Once your carbon footprint has been established, Ecorio lets you take action by offering three features: strongR/strongeduce, strongI/strongnspire, strongO/strongffset - the 'strongrio/strong' half of the product name./p pimg alt="ecorio_screen_nov_08.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/ecorio_screen_nov_08.jpg" width="191" height="284" //p pstrongReduce/strong/p pTo help you reduce your carbon footprint, the app suggests carpooling options via a href="http://zimride.com/home.php"Zimride/a, a ride sharing service in North America, of if you prefer public transit, Ecorio recommends the best routes using a href="http://www.google.com/transit"Google Transit/a./p pstrongInspire/strong/p pThe folks over at Ecorio have also created a social networking feature that allows you to interact and chat with other Ecorio community members as well as view their profiles and see what their carbon footprint looks like; inspire others, let them inspire you./p pstrongOffset/strong/p pThe offset feature shows you what your carbon footprint means in context. For instance, Ecorio can show you by how many pounds you could reduce your carbon footprint if you choose to take transit for half the time, and then shows you how much you would save on gas in dollar value. Ecorio also offers you the opportunity to purchase offsets from a href="http://www.carbonfund.org/"Carbonfund/a, a non profit organization that supports a href="http://www.carbonfund.org/site/pages/our_projects/category/Renewable%20Energy/"renewable energy/a, a href="http://www.carbonfund.org/site/pages/our_projects/category/Energy%20Efficiency/"energy efficiency/a and a href="http://www.carbonfund.org/site/pages/our_projects/category/Reforestation/"reforestation/a, directly from your phone./p pWhile Ecorio is currently only available for the G1, the team is hard at work getting a href="http://www.ecorio.org/blog/?p=4"Ecorio ready to work across other mobile devices/a. Stay tuned./p pTake a look at the video below to see Ecorio in action, when one of its founders, Jeff Kao talks with a href="http://phandroid.com/2008/09/26/ecorio-androids-green-application/"Phandroid/a's Rob Jackson. 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