Ecosia: http://www.ecosia.org/
Ecosia is a social business dedicated to environmental sustainability via the donation of revenue to the world’s most effective rainforest protection programs.
Our best-known service, the search engine mask at Ecosia.org, is powered by Bing and Yahoo. It lets an essential and routine task – searching the web – double as an ecological contribution: not only are Ecosia search emissions offset, but every click on a sponsored ad within Ecosia translates into either cents for the environment - or cents for generating more cents for the environment.
Cents may not sound like much, but they certainly add up. From its inception until December 2010, Ecosia was able to generate just under 125,000 Euros (164,000 USD) for its rainforest protection program with the WWF – and that in just the first year!
More on Ecosia
- The search engine Ecosia is powered by Bing and Yahoo
- It has an international partnership with WWF
- WWF receives 80% percent of the site’s total monthly revenue, in support of its work in the Amazon.
- In 2010m €123,000 was raised for WWF - simply through people searching the web as they do everyday.
- Ecosia specifically supports the world’s largest tropical forest reserve, the Tumucumaque Conservation Landscape in northern Brazil.
- One of the most bio-diverse regions in the world, Tumucumaque is home to a number of endangered species, including the jaguar.
- It is part of the Guiana Shield, which contains 1/4 of the world’s untouched tropical rainforests, as well as the last major unpolluted water reserves in the Neotropics, supplying 1/5 of the Earth’s water.
- Ecosia GmbH is a social business based in Germany
- 80% of its revenue goes to the world’s rainforests. The remaining 20% of revenue is reinvested in the further growth and development of the business.
- The carbon associated with each search made via Ecosia is offset to balance out the impact of that search.
- To this end, Ecosia collaborates with PURE - a UK based carbon offset charity, which invests money in Gold Standard projects for the creation of renewable energy sources.
- Ecosia also runs on verified green power sources.
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