UEA switches to Ecosia to turn internet searches into thousands of trees Published by
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is today (Monday 15 March) switching its default search engine on campus computers to Ecosia, in a move that will potentially result in over 100,000 more trees being planted each year around the world.
The green shift follows a student-led initiative, ‘UEA on Ecosia’, that has already seen the planting of 289 new saplings.
Berlin-based Ecosia is a not-for-profit search engine that uses advertising revenues to plant trees in areas affected by deforestation. So far, over 120 million trees have been planted across 31 reforestation sites worldwide, focused on areas where they will have the most powerful ecological and social impact, including Brazil, Indonesia and Madagascar.