For eleven years, the search engine Ecosia has used most of the revenue from advertising on its website and app towards planting trees—and this month they planted their 100-millionth tree.

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image showing For eleven years, the search engine Ecosia has used most of the revenue from advertising on its website and app towards planting trees—and this month they planted their 100-millionth tree.

Levi_FtM on July 14th, 2020 at 08:21 UTC »

I like to imagine that I'm responsible for a few of these trees, since I use Ecosia for a long time now (nearly a year).

Aeouk on July 14th, 2020 at 08:21 UTC »

Do we all need to switch to this search engine? They sound great.

cferrios on July 14th, 2020 at 08:36 UTC »

From their FAQ:

Does one search finance one new tree?

No, it takes approximately 45 searches to finance the planting of one tree. We know that Ecosia earns an average of 0.5 cents (EUR) per search. It costs our tree planting partners about 0.22 EUR to plant a tree. 22 cents divided by 0.5 cents makes about 45 searches until we can plant one new tree. Depending on clicks on ads and how much search ad revenue these generate for Ecosia, it may take fewer searches. Think of it this way: we currently fund the planting of a new tree every second.