Google now processes 40,000 searches every minute - that’s over 3.5 billion searches every single day. What if you could do good every time you search?
Meet Ecosia: the ethical, eco-friendly search engine. It acts like any other major search engine, with all the same functions and all the same results, but with one fundamental difference: that they use over 80% of the ad revenue profit from your searches to plant trees. Not convinced? You can view their monthly financial reports online, which show exactly where the money they make goes to.
Roughly every 45 searches equates to one tree being planted, and so far they’re up to nearly 26 million trees (as of April 2018). And given that, based on IP addresses, the average person uses 20-30 searches a day, that’s not going to take you long.
It couldn’t be more simple to get started, all you need to do is bookmark Ecosia as your homepage, or add it as an extension to your browser, and from then on every time you search the web you’ll be helping the environment by planting trees where they’re needed the most.