All About Ecosia

Ecosia - What It's All About

So, on my list of Other Eco Blogs/Websites I mention Ecosia, when that link is clicked it will take you to a search engine. A bit like Google or Bing, but Ecosia is different. They donate 80% of their profit to planting trees. So far over 4,300,000 trees have been planted all over the world and there are over 2,000,000 users.

Just like any other search engine, Ecosia makes it's profits from adverts, they get paid for every time someone clicks on an advert, just like any other search engine. 80% of this goes to planting trees, and by 2020 the Ecosia team are hoping to be able to plant 1,000,000,000 trees!

Most of the trees being planted are across the equator and the Ecosia team are helping to rebuild 'the great green wall'. To find out more about 'the great green wall' click here and here

A link to their website is here

How to make Ecosia your default search engine:

1. Open up a new window/tab in your current default search engine
2. Search 'Ecosia' and click on the top result in your search
3. There should be a '...' in the top right hand corner, however the place of this may vary for each person
4. Click on the '...'
5. Click on 'settings'
6. Scroll down to 'advanced settings'
7. Scroll down until you find your current default browser
8. There should be an arrow pointing down next to your current browser
9. Click on the arrow
10. Scroll down until you can find 'Ecosia'
11. Click on it
12. Save your settings

Happy Planting!