![]() Ecosia is presently generating double the amount of renewable energy needed to power all of their searches. “It’s fantastic to have the support of the Office of Sustainability, and we hope that by working together we can plant the trees the planet needs.”Įcosia’s searches are powered by renewable energy that the company generates through their solar facility. “Using Ecosia is an easy way students can have a positive environmental impact while doing research for their studies,” said Fred Henderson, Partnerships & Collaborations Manager at Ecosia. A live tree-planting counter can be seen on the Ecosia homepage. The platform has 15 million active users and plants a tree every 0.8 seconds. This ad revenue is the funding used to finance the reforestation projects Ecosia supports, with 80 per cent of the organization’s profits contributing to various tree-planting initiatives across the globe. Like other search engines, searches using Ecosia generate ad revenue for the company. “We are happy to collaborate with the Office of Sustainability to support initiatives that make our daily searches on the internet a little more sustainable,” says Steve Tessier, Director Enterprise Applications Services, IT Services. The Office of Sustainability will receive reports on the number of trees that our community has collectively supported the plantation of. This extension, which can be installed with a few simple clicks, sets Ecosia as the default search engine on your browser and will count the number of searches entered, which translates to trees. The installation of the McGill-specific extension is voluntary and free. ![]() The McGill-Ecosia CollaborationĪs part of McGill’s responsibility to address the urgency of climate change, the Office of Sustainability and IT Services have collaborated to bring Ecosia to McGill, and encourage students, staff, faculty and alumni to install the Ecosia extension to contribute to reforestation initiatives across the globe. ![]() Multiply that by thousands of members of the McGill community worldwide and you’re talking forests. How quickly would you be able to plant a tree? If you average three searches a day over the course of a year, that would equate to almost 25 trees a year. Consider your daily number of searches again. A search engine that plants trees approximately one per 45 inquiries. These tools allow us access to information, convenience, and instant results.īut what if they could contribute even more?Įnter Ecosia. Search engines are tools that have become so entrenched in our everyday lives that, collectively, we have even deemed some of them verbs in and of themselves. Is it once a day? Ten times? Twenty? Fifty perhaps? “Best restaurants for takeout in Montreal?”Ĭonsider how many times in a day you have turned to a search engine, typed in the search bar, and clicked enter. One tree will be planted for every 45 searches you perform with Ecosia Neale McDevitt
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