Save 2 m² of Amazonian's forest!

pilou

Ecosia is an eco-friendly Internet search engine backed by Yahoo, Bing and the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). It basically works like any other search engine but, unlike others, Ecosia gives at least 80% of its advertising revenue to a rainforest protection program run by the WWF.

Because of this, Ecosia users can save about two square meters of rainforest with every search they do – without paying anything. Furthermore, all Ecosia servers run on green electricity, so they do not cause any CO2 emissions. By using Ecosia, you can turn your web searches green.

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dale

Pilou, you always find the most amazing things..

watkins

My wife bought me a couple of acres of rainforest for my birthday

http://www.worldlandtrust.org/supporting/donation.htm

What she doesn't know is that I'm going to build a luxury hotel on the site, as soon as I find the money.

KXI System

I'll try to search some on this a bit a day.

Even if its nothing I'll still do it.

For Our Earth!

I also find related eco search engines. But these ones are powered by Google not Bing or Yahoo (I don't like them).

Forestle

Znout

olishea

Eco-friendly search engines?

whatever next....

the forests are being illegally butchered all the time and by using a different search engine we will prevent this? really?

Alan Fraser

Both Ecosia and Forestle were founded by Christian Kroll in Wittenburg. Forestle was originally powered by Google, but Google revoked its licence after a few days...disputing whether the terms of service were being met. To the best of my knowledge they never actually said...black and white...why they did this. It's now powered by Yahoo.

I'm trying out Ecosia; it works as good as anything and TBH even if it doesn't give 80% of ad revenue to the WWF, something is better than nothing...and nothing is what it costs me. I imagine that being able to quote Yahoo, Bing and the WWF as partners must give it some degree of legitimacy. It's being going since last December and I'd have thought one of those organisations would have said something if it wasn't kosher.

pyroluna

@olishea said:

whatever next....

Oh, what about this one? http://www.blackle.com/
It claims:

@unknownuser said:

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002