Ashwariya 7Y
On 7th December 2009 a search engine called Ecosia was created by a man called Christain Kroll. The premise is that every few searches you make, a tree is planted: simple. In the past few years they have really gained traction. They’re planting trees in places like: Haiti, NIcaragua and Columbia. However, is this too good to be true?
This engine sounds perfectly simple but most have their suspicions as it sounds like there has got to be a catch. Well there is no catch! They post their monthly financial reports and tree planting receipts onto their website. However many still remain suspicious.
Some believe that they take your information, others believe they don’t actually plant the trees they said they would. Well none of this has been proven true. You can't really prove that they are using and selling your data but they have proved to be planting the trees as they have multiple videos of them planting trees.
How did Ecosia begin? In 2009, Christian Kroll created the search engine Xabble to generate funds for places like India and Nepal so they could get electricity however he abandoned that project. At first Ecosia's funds went to WWF and raised €250,000. However they then started donating to the billion trees project. In the next few years they did multiple campaigns to stop deforestation.
In some ways then, money does grow on trees. Plus when it’s for such a good cause, what do you have to lose?
Find out more from Ecosia’s website: Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosia
https://www.ecosia.org/
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