Apps for the Enviroment

EPA's Apps for the Environment challenge encouraged innovative uses of EPA data to create apps that address environmental and public health issues. Developers created apps with information about everything from energy efficient light bulbs to local air quality. A few even developed games to help people learn environmental facts. The five winners are:

• Winner, Best Overall App: Light Bulb Finder by Adam Borut and Andrea Nylund of EcoHatchery, Milwaukee, WI
• Runner Up, Best Overall App: Hootroot by Matthew Kling of Brighter Planet, Shelburne, VT
• Winner, Best Student App: EarthFriend by Ali Hasan and Will Fry of Differential Apps and Fry Development Co., Mount Pleasant High School in Mount Pleasant, NC, and J.H. Rose High School in Greenville, NC
• Runner Up, Best Student App: Environmental Justice Participatory Mapping by Robert Sabie, Jr. of Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
• Popular Choice Award: CG Search by Suresh Ganesan of Cognizant Technology Solutions, South Plainfield, NJ

While all contestants retain intellectual property rights to their apps, they will be available soon on EPA's website for free download and use for 1 year.

Learn more about the winners and other submissions here.