To fulfill its goal, the company’s customers don’t need to do anything more than leisurely browse the web at their convenience." "A company, whose whole business model is built around planting trees. “By making Ecosia your search engine you can actually help the environment one search at a time.”
***Follow us on our journey to 1 billion trees: Ecosia makes people feel good about their web searches because it contributes to planting trees in environmentally sensitive areas.
The world will be better for it.įind out more about our tree-planting projects, team, and mission on our website: We also signed a legal contract that requires us to stay true to our not-for-profit cause, forever.ĭownload the Ecosia app today. That’s why we publish our monthly financial reports and tree-planting receipts on our website. Thanks to our own solar plant powering our servers on 100% renewable energy, and the Ecosia forests around the world, each of your searches removes around 1 kg of CO2 from the atmosphere. We're interested in trees, not your data: we don’t save your searches, we don’t track the websites you visit, we don’t sell your data to advertisers, and your searches are always SSL-encrypted.ĬO2 neutral is not enough. The more people that use Ecosia, the more trees we can plant, it’s that easy! So what are you waiting for? The Ecosia community is planting millions of trees every month across the world’s most threatened biodiversity hotspots, simply by searching the web. The big difference is, Ecosia uses its profits to plant trees, where nature and people need them most. Its results are pulled from the top three search engines without all the mess. If you want results from the top three search engines but don’t want to go to them individually, try Dogpile. Like other search engines, Ecosia makes money from search ads. You don’t have to sacrifice quality results to do good Ecosia uses Bing and its own search algorithms. When you use Ecosia to browse the web, your searches are helping to plant trees and reverse the effects of climate change. With 7 million users right now, Ecosia is planting a tree every second.Ecosia is the tech company that puts the ability to do good into the hands of internet users. If you try it out and like it, consider getting your company, school, or even town library to make it their default search engine. Freeing up time to allow for education.In addition to helping reverse global warming, planting trees has a host of other benefits especially to poor agricultural communities including: Ecosia says that if they made as much money as Google, 15% of annual global emissions would be absorbed by their trees. Founded in 2009, they’ve planted 50 million trees so far and have an ambitious goal to plant 1 billion trees in the most threatened forest ecosystems by 2020. But now I know that, on average, every 45 web searches I make result in a new tree being planted (equivalent to 1 kg or 2.2 lbs of CO2 removed from the atmosphere with each search).Įcosia does this by taking 80% of the money they make (from ads, like Google does) and using it to plant trees around the world. I haven’t noticed much of a difference between it and Google which I used to use. I’ve been using Ecosia for a month now to test it out. Sounds too good to be true right? That’s what I thought, but I did my homework and it’s legit! If you start using Ecosia, trees are planted thanks to your web searches.
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