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You know with so many applications in Apple’s App Store there has to be a few Earth Day themed things to download.

Here’s a look at the green, Earth Day and environmentally themed apps available that we could find (at the rate the App Store is growing, expect this to be outdated before you finish reading it).

This is the first of two parts so please don’t forget to enjoy the second part as well.

Earth Day
Developed by eSoft Interactive, this simply-named old school arcade-style shooter has gamers defend Earth from invading alien spaceships. Right now it’s only a buck (US$0.99), which isn’t a lot of green. The game is also available for Palm, Pocket PC and Smartphone for significantly more money ($10).

A Real Tree
Buy this app for $1 and a real-world tree will be planted in one of twelve countries fighting deforestation. Otherwise the app is a neat art project where you make birds fly and flowers float in a breeze. Trippy, man.

beamME Pro vCard exchange and beamME CV and Resume Sender
Being called a green app (by iFones) due to the potential to save paper, these apps by rmbrME let you send your business card and resume, respectively, via SMS or email. The company is also planting a tree for each premium purchase. Each app is $4.99 (regularly $6.99 and $7.99 respectively) through Earth Day.

Pocket Globe
It’s the Earth. In your pocket. Only $3. The 3D earth rotates and includes countries, capitals and major cities. You can also see the radiation the Earth is emitting back into space and solar energy being reflected.

Earth Envi
Another Earth-in-your-pocket app although this features photos taken from various space missions. This one is only $1 and includes some of the “most amazing web-based space photos of our home planet that you’ll ever see.”  There’s also a similar app for space photos called Space Envi Deluxe that is $4.

Time to Live
If you like counters and are wondering how long you’ll remain on the planet in living physical form, then this $1 app is for you. You plug in information about your current life style and it calculates to the day when you’ll no longer care about the economy, games or oxygen.

MeterRead
On sale or $1.99 for Earth Day, this app helps you monitor your energy use with easy-to-read meters.

Sol: Daylight Clock
This will give you the exact time that you’ll be able to witness the sun set anywhere in the world. Perfect for timing that most romantic moment during a date. It tells you the number of hours spent in daylight, night and twilight in terms of the time of sunrise, sunset, dawn and dusk.

World Clock
A variation of the previous app, this shows the world map flat style with the night and day super-imposed over it. A less expensive and less fancy version is also available called SunMap and, even less expensive (as in Free) and less fancy, Sunlight. Terra ($5), another variation on the same theme, uses a 3D globe instead of a flat map.

Planet
If you want to get a bit more galactic, this $1 app lets you see the position of six major planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) around the sun at any time of the year.

Green Wars
This $2 app promises to “help you learn a thing or two about how you can save green by going green in your own life.” It’s basically a money management game where you buy and resell products, take out loans, earn interest and earn credibility points.

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