Ecosia is a search engine based in Berlin, Germany, with a focus on planting trees. Since its start in December 2009, the search engine's nine employees have raised over $1.5 million for rainforest protection.
Ecosia makes a large portion of their money from the advertisements shown next to search results, so every time one of over 2 million active members search the web on Ecosia, 5 cents is raised for the planting of trees.
By donating 80 percent or more of this profit to a tree planting programs such as WWF and the Nature Conservatory's Plant a Billion Trees, it has been able to plant over 2 million trees, or a new tree every sixteen seconds. Their blog states that by 2020, they hope to raise that number to 1 billion.
The search engine's main goal is to revitalize the Great Green Wall in Africa, more specifically Burkina Faso. This project is backed by The African Union and the World Bank, and will hopefully reduce drought in Africa.
The only problem many people have with Ecosia is that it runs on Bing instead of Google. This can be a deal breaker for many; however, when tested side by side, the search results aren't very different.
With only this minuscule detail separating it from Google, the pros seem to outweigh the cons. So, by just downloading the software and searching a couple times a day you could be helping replenish the earth's foliage.