The fight to protect the environment does not have a single battlefield, but more than a thousand weapons. Within my lifestyle change to a greener or free of waste that affect the environment and brought a need to try to contribute My little grain of sand to fight against environmental pollution and the fight against global warming. All this need at the end is reduced to adapt my routine with small gestures that make me more responsible and respectful of the environment that surrounds me. That’s why as a person who spends many hours online this option is great.
This project started in Berlin with an alliance of forces between the big Bing and Google corporations in 2009 and since then it has only one objective: to donate 80% of its advertising revenues to tree-planting programs organized by associations such as WeForest.
Its main purpose is to plant more than 1,000 million trees worldwide by 2025. At the moment, the plantabillion.org project is present in Brazil, the United States and China.
But how does a search engine that respects the environment work? Well, very easy. Every click on Ecosia helps the environment. The search engine shows advertising through Bing, with whom they work since 2015. Thanks to it, it obtains income for each search and each click of the users, distributing 80% of these to the projects.
Its way of use is very simple:
You can enter ecosia.org and use the search engine com you would regularly use any search engine. You can also download an extension in Chrome to convert Ecosia into your reference search engine and once installed, you can keep track of how many trees your searches mean.
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