Tag: Ecological Footprint

Ecosia – plant trees while you search the web

Planting trees in our times is a creative activist act.

Ecosia is a search engine based in Berlin, Germany. It donates 80% of its profits to nonprofit organizations that focus on reforestation. It considers itself a social business, is CO2-negative and claims to support full financial transparency and protect the privacy of its users.

They use the profit we make from your searches to plant trees where they are needed most. Get the free browser extension and plant trees with every search.

 

Calculate your Ecological Footprint

Calculating your Ecological Footprint uses a resource accounting tool that measures how much biologically productive land and sea is used by a given population or activity, and compares this to how much land and sea is available.

 

 

Think before you print

 

  • We’re not against printing. We’re against wasting resources.
    We don’t want to stop people printing. We simply think that sometimes, people, and not everyone, need reminding that wasting paper, ink and toner doesn’t make economic or environmental sense.
    Not just email
  • Our message isn’t limited to emails.
    Every day, people hit the print button without really considering why. Often it’s because we’re used to seeing things on paper we have some irrational desire to hoard information “so we’ve got it to hand”, but so often this spontaneous compulsion to print is unnecessary.
  • More than half of all pages printed are never used
    We estimate that over 50% of pages printed are never looked at. Consider how many times an almost completely blank “page 2 of 2” comes out of your printer when printing emails and documents.

https://thinkbeforeprinting.org/