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What's stopping you from using Ecosia? Your searches could plant trees! (www.ecosia.org)
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Ecosia is a search engine that aggregates search results from multiple other search engines. The ad revenue from our searches funds the planting of trees worldwide. With over 200 million trees planted so far, Ecosia have learned to be fully transparent about their projects, and financials which are available right on that website. Set it as your default search engine, and start planting trees. They also recently released a Chromium based browser if that's your thing - TechCrunch article for reference.

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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I cannot speak to this search provider however we know that tree planting alone isn't all it's cracked up to be. Especially huge projects.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/podcasts/the-daily/the-sunday-read-can-planting-a-trillion-new-trees-save-the-world.html

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago*

    I've read the US has more trees today than 200 years ago.

    Sorry, no source, it's been probably 20 years since I read it in a science mag.

    Just looking at pics from the US west back then vs today is pretty staggering.

    And the forest service has prevented fires from containing forests for going on 100 years... A problem in its own right (is a major cause of the larger wildfires we see today, which they we warned about in the 80's by one of their lead researchers).

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