Plant Trees While You Search the Web

In just the last week I’ve planted 24 trees, simply by switching my search engine to Ecosia. Seems crazy, but you can plant trees while you search the web to see what your high school sweetheart is up to or when you search for the menu at the new swanky restaurant downtown.

And, folks. We need to plant a lot of trees if we are going to mitigate climate change. Like billions and billions.

It is not the only solution. We all can do more to buy less junk, support policies that encourage green energy or choose energy efficiency.

After all, we’ve de-forested a third of the planet over the last 100 years, and more than that in the United States, alone.

We need the help of those luscious green carbon munchers to soaking up the extra CO2 we humans have let in to the atmosphere.

This short video will explain how it works. In a nutshell, Ecosia takes the pennies earned from millions of web searches, which would otherwise go to web marketing companies, and they purchase & plant trees with partners all over the world.

You load the app in to your browser and it tracks it for you. They have a counter under the search bar that tracks the millions of trees they’ve already planted.

The key in a plan like this, of course, is to make certain the trees are planted in areas where they will actually grow and, hopefully, contribute to stabilizing the soil and supporting reforestation. The Ecosia team has relationships all over the world to make certain this is done, and done right.

I heard about it and figured, “Heck. I’ve run out of room in my yard for trees. Might as well.”