Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Helping the rain forests




There are a number of websites that make a contribution to a charity whenever you use them. The one below is a bit different.

Ecosia www.Ecosia.org is a search engine run by a non-profit group that uses 80% of revenue generated by leads to protect the Rain Forests.

I have put it on my desktop without any problems, it simply changed the little search box on the top RHS from 'Google' to 'Ecosia'. Every time I have used it, a small fee is paid to Ecosia and this is used for their work on the rainforests. I figure appears in the bottom right of your screen telling you how much rainforest you have saved.

If you find other websites that donate to environmental charities let us know.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the heads up about Ecosia! I came across this the other day that you might be interested, more websites that you can use to 'do good': http://mashable.com/2010/04/17/social-good-micro-lending/

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