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Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees

By: Ecosia

Published on Feb 24, 2016

Ecosia is the search engine that plants trees. Ecosia invests at least 80% of its monthly surplus income in tree planting programs all over the world. For more information visit our page: http://search.ecosia.org/kN0yy

Install Ecosia as your default search engine to plant trees while you search the web:
https://info.ecosia.org/#install

Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, Opera, Vivaldi and many more.

You can also download Ecosia on your mobile:
Ecosia for iOS: http://bit.ly/ecosiaios
Ecosia Android: http://bit.ly/androidappecosia
Ecosia for Windows Phone: http://bit.ly/ecosiawindowsapp

Stay updated on how Ecosia is helping reforest the planet by visiting our blog: blog.ecosia.org

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Saving the planet one dollar at a time: Earth Day 2016

 

By: nomad dimitri

Originally published on Apr 21, 2016

A long time ago, I inspired by “The Man who Planted Trees” (by Jean Giono), I decided to become *a man who plants trees*. Through my life, I must have planted over 1000 trees (including transplanting those college-days avocado seeds which are now huge trees), just as many bushes & a countless numbers of perennials & annuals.

This has been a feel-good, warm & fuzzy love affair, but, I think, not my most important lifetime contribution to the planet. Roughly the time I started planting, I had a life-changing conversation with an eminent professor of mine, a biologist that was very concerned about the fate of the planet (this is back in the days before global warming was even suspected to occur).

I was a 18-year old from Europe (where a squirrel is considered “wildlife”) at a California campus where mountain lions roamed. Concerned about “losing” the paradise of California to a european fate, I asked the wise biologist how I could contribute.

What he told me, changed my behavior forever….

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We are a group of members of Google+ Create, a Google program for recognizing creative users of Google+. This year we are celebrating Earth Day with this small, symbolic art project with the theme: Earth Day 2016 – My planet. My part.
#CreateCommunityEarthDay