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YSK: The Search Engine Ecosia Plants Trees With Your Searches (midwest.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/youshouldknow

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Ecosia is a German search engine company which donates 80% of its revenue to planting trees. They take Bing, reskin it, and spend the profits from advertising on planting trees. They're up to about 175,000,000 trees so far.

https://info.ecosia.org/what?_sp=c00c1905-82ee-49a9-a802-904ebfaef758

Edit: This is just a convenient way to turn something you do every day (use a search engine) into a force for good. It's a slow process, 1 tree ≈ 45 searches, but you were going to make those searches anyway, might as well plant trees! Think of it as the digital equivalent of buying local food.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ecosia! 💚

I found this blog post, where they say:

We use 100% of our profits for the planet

Forget 1%. We dedicate all our profits to the regeneration of the planet. We even signed a legal contract binding us to our not-for-profit purpose forever. Ecosia can’t be sold (sorry, Elon) and we can’t take money out of the company. Your searches profit the Earth, not shareholders.

I also loved this:

Going forward, all Ecosia employees can engage in climate activism during weekdays – they don’t need to take time off or call in sick. If they incur legal problems, Ecosia will support them and cover any related fees. If reasonable, nonviolent civil disobedience should lead any Ecosia employee to be incarcerated, their time behind bars will be counted as work time.

What many Ecosia users don't know, there are shortcuts!

Useful things like #w (wikipedia), #g (google), #i (image search).

[–] Redex68 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah I love those shortcuts so much