Topic: Plant trees with search engine Ecosia.org (Read 156 times)

Hello, I wanted to mention that there's a new search engine that uses 80% of its surplus to fund planting trees. I'll use the latest published receipt ''July 2017'' to illustrate.

Ecosia's total income was €778,168 (about 778k) they invested €449,815 of that into planting trees.

Of this €449,815 they put €199,815 directly into planting trees in several countries such as morocco, madagascar nigcragua and more.
€250,000 went into a parked budget which is now at a rough €1,25 million saved because the partnering tree planters don't need it right away (takes time to plant trees)
They directly funded the planting over over 1,7 million trees in July 2017.

They had put away €183k in operating costs (salaries, employment costs, taxes, insurance for employers and healthcare etc etc etc.)
€29k in marketing
and another €144,9k for reserves (in case something urgent happens).

How it works?: You use ecosia.org as your search engine instead of google and they use the ad revenue for planting trees which they claim will always be atleast 80% of the surplus. In july 2017 it was 80% of the surplus and 58% of their total income.

I think its a great idea, they publish their receipts and spendings publicly. They paid a total of 47k in salaries for 28 people (including freelancers) in one month which I think is very reasonable. Even a bit on the low but I don't know how much hours they work.

visit www.ecosia.org to learn more and set it to your default search engine so they can continue planting more trees!