Ecosia (ecosia.org)is the search engine that plants trees with its advertising revenue. Every time you search the internet with Ecosia, search advertising is displayed and generate income for Ecosia. This revenue (80%) is used to plant trees. With a base of 3 million users, Ecosia planted over 6 million trees. You can head here to download your browser extension and start to be green on the internet.
Ecosia goal is to plant a billion trees.
The company is Berlin based and Because skepticism isn’t uncommon when companies claim to funnel funds to good causes, Ecosia publishes its donation statements online ( as an attempt to maintain full transparency. As mentioned above, 80% of the income is used to plant trees and the 20% to neutralize the CO2 emissions of its web search as well as mantain the company operations and growth. Rather than pay-per-click, EcoLinks help Ecosia earn money every time a user performs an action on the advertiser’s site – whether that be purchasing an item or registering for an account – and receives a share of the revenue that is generated. As in the interview Tech.eu had with Christian Kroll, the Ecosia founder told that “We have a lot of engaged users who ask, ‘What can we do to help you?’ and we don’t have any infrastructure for that at the moment,” he said. “Now we’re building up a kind of social network for ambassadors so they can meet, exchange ideas and download resources they need in order to help us promote the idea, because we’re not spending money on that. We depend a lot on word of mouth.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJoD98s0zFM
So, now, what is your next search engine you will use after reading this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo93M_6Xl50
