Ecosia - a Search  Engine that Plants Trees

Ecosia.org is an internet search engine (like Google) that plants trees (unlike Google).

They do a lot of other things unlike Google, too. In their words:

“We dedicate all our profits to the regeneration of the planet. We even signed a legal contract binding us to our not-for-profit purpose forever. Ecosia can’t be sold ... and we can’t take money out of the company.”

Also in their words:

“… if everyone switched from Google to Ecosia, we could plant 300 billion trees — every year.”

You can read Ecosia's manifesto here. 

Google offers so many free tools in addition to its search engine that it’s hard to go past them for sheer convenience. That’s one of the reasons they're so influential and powerful.

Full disclosure: as someone who works online quite a lot, I do use some of Google's free tools in instances where I cant find an alternative. 

But by far the most frequent action I take on line is to search for things, and I think that's probably true of all of us. With Ecosia as my default browser and search engine, I feel like at least I'm doing the right thing there.  

Here's how to set Ecosia as your default browser/search engine on your desktop or laptop.  

And here's how to do it on your mobile device.