For Good measures your carbon footprint

We are closing our week of sustainability today with an app that confronts you with your carbon footprint. Do you often take the car? Are your holidays always by plane? Then wet your chest. The app of the week this time is For Good.

For Good app

The intent of the app isn’t just to slap you in the face with understanding your footprint, it’s there to help you improve it by giving you tips on how to do just that. The app makes you think about what energy you use, how often you take the car, and so on. The advantage is that it is not very pedantic, but somewhat confrontational.

Anyone can register with For Good, but the app does want to have some data from you, with or without the help of Facebook. When you register, you will immediately be asked questions: how often do you fly (inter)continental, how often do you take the train, tram and bus? But it also wants to know how often you use the car and whether you eat meat or are vegetarian, for example. In our opinion, there should have been more options: for which house you live, we miss, for example, the option to indicate a corner house or other types of houses.

Pretty simple app

In terms of options, it could all be a bit more extensive and that also applies to the tips. For example, you are advised to regularly dust off your heating elements and to serve your children a vegetarian meal. Unfortunately, those tips are not very personalized: I don’t have children, for example, and I already eat vegetarian. In addition, the app is quite simple, there is no extensive program that you have to follow. You can, however, challenge your friends and family to do a kind of footprint race via a challenge.

On the other hand, this app is mainly about awareness and it certainly offers that. In addition, you can re-enter it every week and so hopefully see your footprint smaller. In our opinion, however, the app could be even more extensive: also include, for example, how long people shower or reward them if they often use their bicycle. This makes it a somewhat more positive app, with which you can do more than now. But again: anyone can download this app, so even if you’re just doing it to find out how big your footprint is: fill it in and you’ll immediately know more about your influence on this earth.

Check your CO2 footprint

The For Good app is now available to download from the Google Play store and the Apple App Store.

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