BBC Weekly “The Boss” series talks to the Ecosia Boss
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@luetage A tree that only grows for a few years is still an improvement over no trees at all.
Over those few years that tree will absorb some carbon dioxoide from the air, and will keep this carbon stored even if it is cut down (assuming it isn't burned).
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@luetage said in BBC Weekly “The Boss” series talks to the Ecosia Boss:
While I understand the business model of Ecosia, I don’t understand how it makes a difference. It’s donating money to tree planting charities, but how do these charities operate? It’s not at all clear that any of these is working sustainable. If each tree planting charity doesn’t own the land they are planting on, the trees can just be chopped or burned down anytime in the future. These trees need to grow 20 to 30 years to make any impact and then they need to last. Who can ensure that?
I'm fairly certain that I've read a blog post from Ecosia where they bring this up and how they work to future-proof their projects (to the extent possible). Unfortunately, I don't know how long ago I read that and there are many, many posts on their blog to sift through to find it...
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@Komposten The CEO answers that question in this video. They only count trees that survive for at least 3 years, not just seedlings planted, and they try to ensure that the trees are useful to locals so that they will look after them.
Note that Christian seems to be fluent in multiple languages: German, French, Spanish, English ...
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Also, here in this blog post, Ecosia explains how the trees are protected for the long term.
https://blog.ecosia.org/how-do-ecosia-trees-survive-cut-down/
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Because nature and environmental protection are important to me, I use Ecosia as my standard search in Vivaldi 
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lol
Well make sure you disable adblocking and click the adverts, or no trees will be planted from your browsing. -
@Pesala I'm on the latest Snapshot 3.3.2022.6.
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@pesala If you liked ecosia you might also like using refoorest.com/en which is a web plugin you can add to your web browser (google, bing, ecosia...) it lets you plant a tree every time you visit one of their partners’ website and it’s totally free
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Ppafflick moved this topic from Vivaldi on the Web on -
@samirf I almost never use Google or Bing, and Ecosia is my default search engine, so there is no point adding an unknown plugin, which may not protect my privacy as well as Ecosia.
Unless you really need an extension, be wary of adding it.
