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.

  • _MoveSwiftly@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    2 years ago

    What’s the purpose of this post? Advertisement is not allowed. If there is one, could you please add a “Why YSK:”? It’s rule #2. It’s also helpful for readability, and informs readers about the importance of the content. Thank you. :)

    • Liz@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Whoops, sorry, I just kinda figured it was self-evident that people here might like a search engine that plants trees. That’s basically it. If that doesn’t fit this community I can totally delete the post.