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Ecosia

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GER
Rating
Some praise, no criticism

Search engine

Founded by Christian Kroll in 2009, Ecosia is a search engine which donates 80% of its profits into tree planting projects. Search results are provided by Bing and enhanced by their own algorithms.

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Company Assessment

PRAISE CRITICISM INFORMATION
Ecosia GmbH
Environment Carbon negative company
Ecosia has built two solar plants, which provides enough clean energy to the grid to power all Ecosia searches with 100% renewable energy. In fact they produce 200% of their power requirements. In addition to this Ecosia use 80% of their profits to plant trees, removing more CO2 from the atmosphere.
Source: Wired (2019)
Business Ethics Certified B Corporation
Certified B Corporations use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. B Corps meet comprehensive and transparent social and environmental performance standards; meet higher legal accountability standards; and build business constituency for good business.
Source: B Corporation (2019)
Business Ethics Partnership with Microsoft
Ecosia searches are powered by Microsoft-owned Bing. This partnership means that an Ecosia search requires not just its own servers but Microsoft's as well. Part of the revenue generated by using Ecosia goes to Microsoft, who have several criticisms in the Shop Ethical database.
Source: Wired (2019)
Business Ethics Privacy and transparency claims
Ecosia publishes monthly financial reports and tree planting receipts. Ecosia also protects your privacy. It doesn't create personal profiles of you based on your search history, but actually anonymizes all searches within a spam protection period of 4 days. Moreover, Ecosia encrypts all searches to protect them from eavesdroppers, doesn't use any external tracking tools, and doesn't sell your data to advertisers.
Source: company website (2020)

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Company Details

Type Private company

Contact Details

Address Berlin, Germany
Website www.ecosia.org

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Ecosia 80% of profits fund tree planting projects 80% of profits fund tree planting projects  Search Engines


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