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Ecosia
Ethan • 14 August 2019
Ecosia is a search engine that uses the profit that it makes from personalised ads to plant trees. The more you search, the more trees they plant, the more carbon is taken out the atmosphere. It's a no brainer. Download the app on android or iPhone, add onto your chrome, and find out more information here.
Time to say bye to Google
Never heard of it? Neither had I, but now its the only search engine Alex and I use. It is quite possibly the easiest way to help the environment and doesn't involve any effort whatsoever.
The premise of Ecosia is that it uses the money that it makes from personalised ads (something all search engines use) to plant trees. Super simple. The more you search, the more trees they plant, the more carbon is taken out the atmosphere. It's great for the environment, even their data centres are run using 100% renewable energy. You can find out about their amazing projects here.
It's also great as a search engine in general, doing all that you could want your usual sites to do, images, news, weather etc. and it also has some top standard morals. They are incredibly transparent, publishing all financial reports, and don't sell your information to third parties.
Overall I think this is probably the easiest decision to make, there's not a single reason to use anyone but Ecosia.
Photo credit: Ecosia site.
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