Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees

Ecosia:

Trees are good for the planet, good for all of us. We need more of them. Much more.

Ecosia was launched in 2009. It donates 80% of its advertising profits to tree-planting schemes. It publishes monthly financial reports to show the world what it’s doing. So far: 82.5 million trees across 22 projects and 17 countries. Now THAT’S environmental action.

Ecosia is a search engine like Google, but very different: we use our ad revenue to plant trees where nature and people need them most. The Ecosia community has already planted millions of trees in Ethiopia, Brazil, Indonesia, Spain, as well as many other biodiversity hotspots.

They have browser plugins for Chrome and Safari. I’m going to give it a try for a while.