Use Your iPhone to Fight Global Warming
That’s right, you can now use your iPhone to fight global warming. How, you say? Simple — buy the new app called ‘A Real Tree’ and you will actually be buying a real tree (go figure) that will be planted on your behalf somewhere in this crazy world of ours.
Hans Chung, founder of Mokugift and developer of the Real Tree app, had the following to say:
“Our ‘A Real Tree’ app makes tree-planting as easy as buying your favorite song. With the click of a button, iPhone or iPod touch owners can buy ‘A Real Tree’. Trees are then planted by partners, who are award-winning tree-planting organizations in 12 countries fighting deforestation and poverty.
Our app is not the pinnacle of user interface design. In many ways it is a bit crude. We wanted to focus not on the app, but on the meaning and impact.
Unlike other apps that claim to be environmental by donating portion of their revenues to eventually fund some undefined portion of a tree, ‘A Real Tree’ plants one real tree every time ‘A Real Tree’ is purchased on the iTunes store. It is that simple and straight forward, just like our name.”
So how much does this thing cost? Well, I would think with the importance of oxygen, the price of a tree must be more than a few pennies. Wrong! A Real Tree is actually only a paltry 99¢. Considering how much this could impact the environment (if you believe in that sort of thing), the price of A Real Tree seems totally worth it. Now I just have to spend a few hundred bucks to get a iPhone for it to work on…
You can find more info and links to buy A Real Tree at arealtree.com.
Hooray earth!
