![]() As Ecosia and Oceanhero have specific impacts on our environment, that’s a bit more complicated for Google. I’d like to finish this article with mentioning Google. Therefore they publish every month how many ocean-bound plastic bottles were collected. Just as for Ecosia, transparency is very important for them. Oceanhero already collected more than 18 million bottles in total. Currently Oceanhero collects one plastic bottle per 17 opened tabs or 100 collected shells By searching on the web, by opening new tabs or by answering ocean questions on Oceanhero itself. This can be collected in three different ways. ![]() Surfing on Oceanhero makes you collect shells. Oceanhero can be installed as a Google Chrome extension or downloaded as an app. How does it work? In almost exactly the same way as Ecosia. The value they receive for plastic can be valuta, education or sanitation. They give plastic a value so local people who live in very polluted areas, and often live in poverty, have a reason to collect the plastic and improve their living environment. To collect the plastic Oceanhero works together with PlasticBank. Their mission? To recover plastic (Phillipines & Haïti), build recycling infrastructures (Indonesia), educate people about plastic pollution & solutions and connect people to the ocean. Oceanhero was founded in 2019, guess where? Right, Berlin, Germany, making an impact in three different locations Haïti, The Phillipines and Indonesia. Save the oceans by surfing the web: Oceanhero By making Ecosia the home search engine, your search effectively removes 1kg of CO2 from the air. Recently they achieved 100 million trees planted which equals the removal of 1771 tonnes CO2 every single day whilst their counter stands on +127 million planted trees today. Keep in mind that in reality, you need +-45 searches to plant a tree in with Ecosia.Ĭurrently Ecosia plants a new tree roughly every second. Whilst searching you’ll notice a tree counter on the top of the browser, for every search you make, the counter ads one tree. Once installed you can search the web and find what you’re looking for. Therefore they only use renewable energy to power its searches and are even building its own solar energy plant to make them independent from external providers.Įcosia can be easily installed as an extension to Google chrome, downloaded as an app in the app or make is your standard home page. Next to transparency they want to make sure they really are the most ecological search engine out there. By doing this is want to reassure you that the money is well spent. To make sure they’re as transparent as possible, Ecosia publishes its financial reports on its website. How? Mainly by using revenue from advertisement. I suspect OceanHero won't, otherwise, you'd think the extension would have already set it to be the default search-engine.Ecosia is a German-based search engine founded in 2008 with one mission: to plant more than a billion trees all around the globe. ![]() Ecosia will plant trees, when you search-from the address bar. Everything else (such as searching from the address bar) will do an Ecosia search. That will still let you use OceanHero from the new tab page, like you can already. Or set your default search-engine to Ecosia. And in the Nickname box, the little box to the right of that, type "o" (or whatever shortcut you want to use). In the pop-up, replace the text "cdbccfkcpkmimlajcjpodelocoeifjhp" with "OceanHero". Right-click the search-box, and click "Add as Search Engine.". ![]() In other words: You'll only get to OceanHero from the new tab page, everything else (such as searching from the address bar) will take you to Bing. I tested the extension myself (in a separate profile I use for extension testing), and I noticed that it didn't change the default search engine to OceanHero. ![]()
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