Cilo

Cilo

Your guide to a climate-friendly lifestyle

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Cilo’s easy-to-use footprint tracker lets you see the carbon cost of the products you buy, get personalised reduction tips, and compete with friends and family to achieve your climate goals.
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Launch tags:Climate Tech•Food & Drink•Lifestyle
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laurence_collingwood
Cilo
Maker
Hi Hunters! Laurence and Ryan here, founders and developers of Cilo. We’re on a mission to make sustainable attainable. We believe that individuals can play a huge role in the fight against climate change. But reducing your carbon footprint right now would be like trying to save up money if none of the products you were buying had price tags and you didn’t have a bank account to track your spending over time. That’s why we built Cilo, and as of today our public beta is available on iOS! (Android version coming soon…) So how does it work? ✓ See products’ carbon cost Every food and drink item has a unique carbon footprint estimate based on academic research & industry data, with estimates for travel, energy and fashion coming soon! ✓ Track your carbon spending Our calorie-counting style UX makes recording data quick and easy. It takes just 2 minutes a day - quicker than brushing your teeth! ✓ Reduce with personalised tips We need to make small, sustainable improvements continually to get to net-zero by 2050. See how much different carbon saving actions would save YOU and set targets to achieve your goals! ✓ Compete with friends and family A problem shared is a problem halved. Get your pals involved, compete to be the most carbon conscious, and achieve your climate goals together. We're giving away £100 in prizes to the users that top the leaderboard in August! Our goal is to help as many people as possible reduce their carbon footprint by as much as possible. Your feedback at this early stage will be crucial in achieving that. If you want to help us on our journey, please consider downloading the app and letting us know your thoughts. Thanks for your support and please don’t hesitate to reach out to us directly! Cheers, Laurence and Ryan (PS the footprint data is UK centric at the moment. But a lot of the information still has value if you live elsewhere, and we’re working on adapting it to new markets as soon as possible).
angeandbruce@yahoo.co.uk
@lcolli71 I think this a great idea. We all need to do our part. Will be trying this out today.
Ryan Brown
Cilo
Maker
@lcolli71 @angeandbruce_yahoo_co_uk Thank you! Please let us now what you think when you've had chance to explore!
Jamie Oliver
Fantastic concept and a well-needed tracker of our carbon consumption - we only have one planet after all. Being competitive I love the idea of a leaderboard - will definitely be sharing to others.
Josh Bird
@lcolli71 This is a fantastic idea! I’ve been wanting to see how I could reduce my carbon footprint for ages, will be giving it a go this afternoon.
Fares
Nice idea, Congrats on the launch ! @lcolli71 @ryandavidbrown
Vinay Harwani
Much needed product, Loved the idea. Congrats on the launch 🚀
laurence_collingwood
Cilo
Maker
@vmharwani Thank you Vinay, that means a lot!
Ryan Brown
Cilo
Maker
@vmharwani Thank you for the support Vinay!
Faith McCarthy
Looks very interesting. Look forward to studying my weekly shop.
Ryan Brown
Cilo
Maker
@faith_mccarthy1 Thank you Faith! We'd love to hear what you've learned so keep in touch!
Serge Sigal
Cpaytoday
Good job! It’s a very useful project.
laurence_collingwood
Cilo
Maker
@serge_sigal Thanks so much Serge! We agree!
Jess Cowie
I love that this looks at the actual products I’ve bought to measure my carbon footprint! One thing I don’t like about other carbon footprint tracking apps I’ve tried is they just look at how much I spent at Tescos, but don’t know if I bought 10 gallons of petrol or a bag or carrots. Quick question though - how does the app know what I’ve bought?
laurence_collingwood
Cilo
Maker
@jess_cowie Great question Jess - Cilo works in a similar way to nutrition tracking apps. So you can just search products in our database, and add them to a new transaction as you buy them. It takes less than 2mins a day for our current users - quicker than brushing your teeth! We are working on integrating open banking API’s to automatically sync your transactions, and barcode scanning to make adding products even easier. But you’ll never need to connect your bank account if you don’t want to!
Seb Rex
I love the idea of this, but it looks like a lot of the data is UK centric? I live in New Zealand so how useful will the advice the app gives be for me?
Ryan Brown
Cilo
Maker
@seb_rex Hello Seb, a great question! All of our research so far is UK centric. Footprint estimates can vary considerably in different regions (and in the same region!). So the numbers contained in our app will not directly apply to New Zealand. However, there is still a lot to be learned in the app. High carbon products like beef are likely to be high carbon pretty much everywhere, and local in-season vegetables, grown outdoors, are likely to be low-carbon in most areas. Take the data with a pinch of salt, and try to think about what makes a low-carbon product. Our Instagram is a great place to improve you carbon-instinct! @ciloapp We plan to expand our database to new regions as soon as possible, and we’ll keep you up to date on our progress!
Alexander Rojas
Amazing idea... When will it be available on Android?
laurence_collingwood
Cilo
Maker
@alexander_rojas1 Thanks Alexander! Developing for android is top of our priority list, so soon we hope! If you go to our website https://www.cilo.uk you can sign up to be the first to know when the android version is ready.
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