Is Ecosia legit?

Nonprofits / Activism
Published on Jun 3, 2019
In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look whether the search engine Ecosia is legit. Specifically, I figure out if Ecosia is real when they say Ecosia plants trees for every web search you make. Because there are no Snopes pieces on the Ecosia, I figured it would be important see if Ecosia is actually planting trees as they claim, as well as try to figure out whether switching from Google to Ecosia makes sense.

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Resources:

1. Nature 2.0: Exploring and theorizing the links between new media and nature conservation (Bram Büscher): https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d73c/d6a8b7b070802b0ac947fe731754740ea310.pdf
2. Ecosia’s B Corporation certification (B Corporation): https://bcorporation.eu/directory/ecosia-gmbh
3. An Unbiased Review of Ecosia (Path Around the World): https://www.patharoundtheworld.com/ecosia-review/
4. Ecosia’s financial reports (Ecosia): https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-planting-receipts/
5. Map of Ecosia’s tree planting projects (Ecosia): https://info.ecosia.org/#projects
6. Microsoft pledges to cut carbon emissions by 75 percent by 2030 (Microsoft): https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/11/14/microsoft-pledges-cut-carbon-emissions-75-percent-2030/
7. Ecosia vs. Google: Which is the best search engine? (Ecosia): https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-vs-google-free-alternative-search-engine-taxes-environment-privacy/

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