Christian

Christian

CEO and founder

Activism

It’s time to power up. Ecosia invests 20 million into renewables to counter fossil fuel dependence

Like many, I am distraught at the destruction wrought by Putin's attack on Ukraine. And I wonder what we at Ecosia can do to help.

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News

Google is anti-competitive: an open letter to the EU

Over the last decade, Google has become one of the most monopolistic organisations in human history.

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Opinion
Opinion

COVID-19 is tearing apart Google’s competitors - here's what we must do to combat this

Last week, our good friends at the alternative search engine Cliqz announced they would have to close it down.

 
News

Ecosia is now a default search engine option in Chrome!

Chrome has added Ecosia as an official search engine option in 47 countries worldwide.

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News

Why you can't choose Ecosia on your new Android phone

Android users deserve to choose their favorite search engine. Google’s decision to sell that choice to the highest bidders is unethical and anti-competitive.

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News

2+1 million trees for Brazil

Installs of Ecosia have increased by a 1000% in only a week. The Amazon fires have brought Ecosia much attention and we are responding to the trust our (new) users put in us by increasing our efforts in Brazil.

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News

Ecosia takes radical steps to support climate activism

Climate marches and nonviolent civil disobedience are necessary. Ecosia supports its employees with a new climate leave policy.

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News

Why we're saying no to Google

Google wants other search engines to pay to become a default option in Android. Here's why we're saying no.

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News

Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia

Because we believe that the world would be a better place if more businesses were driven by a meaningful cause instead of greed.

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Facts

Agriculture is broken, but we can fix it

What ten-year-old me didn’t realise is that the huge machines and the tidy monotony of the fields were part of the world's biggest problem.

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News

RWE won’t back down. Neither will we! #Hambibleibt

Yesterday, we made RWE an offer to buy the 12,000 year old Hambach Forest from them for €1 million.

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News

#CiaoRWE – Take a stand for Hambach Forest!

Let's do what we can to conserve the Hambacher forest, a 12,000-year-old ecosystem in the West of Germany.

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