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Virtual Vehicle Company, a startup that was one of the 100 finalists showing their technologies at the California Cleantech Open conference on Thursday, is the first company I’ve seen that truly uses the latest cell phone innovations to unlock useful data about greener transportation. Developed at UC Berkeley, VEVCo (as the company calls itself) has developed a mobile application for smart phones that can track a user’s driving behavior using inputs like the embedded GPS and largely without the driver having to manually input any information.

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Getting stuck in traffic sucks. While traffic jams have an uncomplicated cause -- too many dang cars -- the solution isn't quite so simple; there's no getting away from them completely in the foreseeable future. While we wait for high-speed rail to come to the U.S., there's some good news that can help cut back on time wasted in traffic jams and carbon emissions. According to a new study, cars equipped with GPS navigation systems with real-time traffic info can save American drivers a hefty four days -- and 21 percent of their cars' carbon emissions -- a year.

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Puffins living in one of the most remote places in the UK are to be fitted with "sat nav" devices in a bid to help scientists discover why their numbers are falling.

This summer researchers will use GPS technology to track the movements of a colony of puffins living on the Farne Islands, off the Northumberland coast, in a bid to explain a "dramatic" decline in the bird's population in the past five years.

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GreenDrive advises the driver on the most economical driving style to use, when to accelerate, when to break, and when to keep the speed. This is done on mobile phones and personal navigation devices.

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Keeping track of your carbon footprint could become as simple as slipping a mobile phone in your pocket: a London-based start-up company has developed software for mobile phones that uses global positioning satellites to work out automatically whether you are walking, driving or flying and then calculate your impact on the environment.

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