Commons - Sustainable Spending

Commons App

About this app

Search before you shop to discover sustainable brands you can trust, and boycott the ones you can’t. Find practical tips for deconsumption and join collective climate challenges to be part of our community impact.

Along the way, you’ll earn rewards for thousands of everyday sustainable purchases like thrift stores, public transit, sustainable clothing and cleaning, EV chargers, and farmer’s markets and get personalized guidance to track and reduce your carbon footprint.

1. EXPERT BRAND RATINGS: Skip the greenwashing and start your search here. Commons’ carbon experts have rated hundreds of brands’ sustainability so you can find brands you can trust. See how clothing and cleaning brands stack up.

2. EARN REWARDS FOR SUSTAINABLE CHOICES: Get rewards for thousands of climate-friendly purchases, like sustainable fashion, sustainable cleaning, public transit, thrift stores, EV chargers, farmer’s markets, and more. You’ll also earn badges as you build your sustainable life.
Redeem rewards for offsets or gift cards at sustainable brands like Earth Hero, Organic Basics, Subset, and ettitude.

3. JOIN COLLECTIVE CHALLENGES: Take climate action with the Commons community! Every month, our community rallies together to use our money to build a more sustainable future.
Past challenges: Boycott Amazon, Boycott Fast Fashion, Support Climate Causes, Secondhand Shopping, Support Farmers Markets, and more.

4. TRACK YOUR DAILY PROGRESS: With a personalized footprint tracker, see the emissions of each purchase and track your progress over time. To give you the most accurate carbon footprint, Commons calculates the emissions of each transaction based on your carbon profile and what you purchased.
Get personalized tips and insights to lower your footprint and watch it shrink over time.

5. OFFSET YOUR EMISSIONS: Offsets are a way to compensate for our unavoidable emissions.
When you offset your emissions with Commons, you invest in a vetted, diverse portfolio of climate solutions that are lowering global emissions, supporting local communities, and restoring ecosystems.

Our offset portfolio includes:
• Charm Industrial: Converting agricultural waste into bio-oil and storing it underground
• Pachama: Using satellite imagery to monitor and measure carbon captured in forests
• Delta Blue Carbon: Restoring mangrove forests to scale coastal carbon sinks
• Tradewater: Collecting and destroying the world's most potent greenhouse gases

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Ratings and reviews

I like this app! It's nice that there's educational articles, community challenges, and store alternative recommendations! I also like the spending tracking. The one gripe is that, when it comes to the emissions scores on stuff/amount of points you earn for buying from sustainable stores, they only count the stores they're partnered with! I put effort into researching sustainable stores (that they don't always have that type of in their recommendations, btw!), only for the affiliate stores count

Love this app and the different challenges! I wish there were more options for a sustainable purchases. I shop mostly secondhand, and it's frustrating that Goodwill purchases are the only ones I get rewards for. I also take the bus and put money on a bus card, yet for all the promotion of using public transportation, that transaction isn't recognized by the app as a sustainable purchase. This isn't to say I don't love the app, I just wish they could expand the sustainable purchase options

I'm pretty new to this app, but I like it. I do think there should be more features to help people spend money sustainably, such as a map with local sustainable stores and stuff like that. Asking me to spend sustainably doesn't help too much when I don't have the time to research every store, restaurant, etc in my town. I'd also like to see some recipes, as I struggle to find healthy foods that are also sustainable.

What’s new

- Join our March collective challenge: compensate for a flight supporting vetted climate solutions that actually work.
- Find out how sustainable your cleaning routine is with brand new cleaning ratings!