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Ecosia themselves does not really plant trees. Instead they pay out money to different projects all around the world. They are very transparent about it. They
by moooo99 2y ago
Ecosia themselves does not really plant trees. Instead they pay out money to different projects all around the world.
They are very transparent about it. They list the amounts paid, the partners, the tree species, etc.
They are also fairly efficient from what you can tell by their reports.
- lxgr 2y agoI didn't assume so, but they still do two things: Making money, and picking a purpose of what to do with it (in this case, planting trees). As somewhat of a sympathizer of effective altruism (the idea of efficiency being an important factor in charities, not necessarily the implementation and even less the community), this isn't super appealing to me.
- tasuki 2y ago> Making money, and picking a purpose of what to do with it Who doesn't? Why else would one make money other than to do something with it? If they didn't make money, how would they support the tree-planting?
- lxgr 2y agoVia direct, tax-deductible monetary donations. This just seems like a donation with complicated extra steps, in the same way that e.g. "rounding up to charity" or even "round up savings" do not appeal to me at all. That might well be an idiosyncratic preference, and to some the idea of "planting trees via running web searches" might appeal much more than a nonprofit search engine that donates to a basket of charities, or one that directly pays the user for showing them ads and lets them decide what to do with the money and then the user donating the proceeds themselves.
- culi 2y agoTheir youtube channel covers what their partner orgs do in depth. It's a pretty cool channel if you ever wanna watch local organizations around the world trying to safeguard their natural communities