Idea & Team

How Does Ecosia Work?

• Search the Web, Save the Environment
• Main Features, main advantages

Team & History

• Can I volunteer in one of Ecosia's reforestation projects?
• Can I do an internship at Ecosia?
• Who is behind Ecosia?
• How Ecosia was founded
• Ecosia, Germany's first certified B Corporation
• Work at Ecosia

Transparency

• We publish all our tree planting receipts & business reports
• How does Ecosia handle search and data privacy?
• What sets Ecosia apart from its competitors?

Sharing Ecosia

• Is there an Ecosia newsletter or do you have a blog?
• Ecosia in your school, university, company or organisation
• How can I support Ecosia?
• Are there Ecosia brochures or other offline informational materials available for me to distribute?
• How can I integrate an Ecosia search bar or banner into my website?
• Is there Ecosia merchandise available?

Business

Business Model

• Do you accept donations?
• How does Ecosia make money?
• We use our profits from ad income to finance tree planting
• How much money does Ecosia earn? How much does it put towards tree planting projects?
• Being a social business
• Business reports & tree planting receipts

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Advertisements on Ecosia

• I don't see any ads on Ecosia, why is that?
• What are EcoAds?
• Can I support Ecosia by randomly clicking on EcoAds?
• How do I get my ad blocker extension or add-on to make an exception for Ecosia?
• Does an EcoAd mean the products or businesses I'm looking at are sustainable?
• How can I advertise on Ecosia?

CO2 Neutralization

• How do you neutralize a search's CO2 emissions?

Search

Tips & shortcuts

• What are search tags?
• Use a keyboard shortcut to open images in a new tab
• Installing Ecosia with OpenSearch

General

• How do search engines work?
• Why doesn't Ecosia use a black background to save energy?

Search partners

• Where do Ecosia's search results come from?
• Our search partners at Microsoft Bing
• Is Bing CO2-neutral?

Technical support

• Ecosia is not virus, malware or spam
• Chrome extension customisation - Bookmarks and New Tab
• Why do I have to install a new Chrome extension?
• My settings keep being reset. How can I save them permanently?
• Make Ecosia your default search engine in Vivaldi
• Personalized search results

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Personal counter

• How does the search counter work? What does it mean when you say "You've helped plant X trees"?
• How much does Ecosia actually earn per search? Does one search finance one new tree?
• Why was my personal counter reset to '1' and how do I prevent it from happening again?

Planting Project

Planting Partners

• The Friends of Usambara Society
• Gunung Saran Lester Foundation
• PUR Projet
• The Eden Projects
• Entrepreneurs Without Borders (OZG)

Tree Planting

• ★ How, where and why we plant trees
• What kinds of trees are planted in Tanzania?
• What kinds of trees are planted in Indonesia?
• What kinds of trees are planted in Peru?
• What kinds of trees are planted in Madagascar?
• What kinds of trees are planted in Burkina Faso?

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