Founding story of Ecosia - a chat with Christian

Christian Kroll, founder of Ecosia, on how he thought of a search engine that plants trees.

Install Ecosia as your default search engine to plant trees while you search the web:

Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, Opera and many more.

You can also download Ecosia on your mobile:

[antoniodossantos]

Thanks... Christian... Greetings from Colombia/El inmigrante venezolano escritor/writer🌎

[ferioxswitzerland]

I support a lot Ecosia, our world is being worse and we have to do something. Like Christian, I always wanted to help the ecology but I'm too young now for create an idea. When I learned that I could plants trees just by search the web, I was very impressed ! Good Job ! Don't Stop !

[bilberkaur]

Wonderful, organisation, I will be letting the children I teach know about Ecosia, so the next generation will love the trees and help our planet.

[MarcoMeerman]

I changed to Ecosia since october 2018 and feel great.

[shirleyrae]

Well done Mr. Christian Kroll. I am new with Ecosia. Will tell more people about your search engine.

[juanza.x]

This is great! Fantastic! I also have an idea, but I have not conceptualized yet, and you encourage me to do so. I installed Ecosia and I am really happy the world has people like you!

[LumberShnazz]

I love the work you are doing guys. So inspiring. Keep it up.

[totalfreedom]

You guys should try get your own independent infrastructure one day. I don't know whether its good to be tied to bing. Still I'm glad about what you're doing!

[hyliahoang]

ECOSIA and PUR PROJET are really wonderful projects for the planet! Trees are essential for Humans and the World should know that much more!

[beverlyorton]

THANK YOU for your inspiring work! Much needed at this depressing time in world history.

[valentinabecerrasalazar]

I'm doing a presentation about Kroll. I`d like to know how old is he! I just love Ecosia and what to show it to everybody!

[hrhprophetessofdarknesssex]

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[thenong]

Switch from Google to Ecosia. Hope we find everything here.

[Sergedfabre]

Just a few more thousand tree till we reach 123, 456, 789 trees!

[pedrorocha]

Hey guys I use your app it's a great idea you had. And thanks for what you doing xD

But I wanted to ask (because it's in the mind of the users) is
Do you can take a next step to become a browser?

1- Because depending on others browser it's annoying, every time we do search something apps start to open...

2- I bet it would be simpler to you to get more people using your browser and to us too by only have to search for and get info right away.

I only use on my mobile phone so idk how it's like on a PC, but try to do something.

Big thank you for helping!!

[petergambier]

Yes it's a grand idea to plant tree's and I'd like to support Ecosia but are these tree's the faster growing type like Pine tree's or do they also plant Oaks, Elms and other slower growing varieties or do you plant tree's that match the existing variety?
The other problem that we have in our world is housing and I have made strawbale and cob structures using lime putty mortars & plasters instead of the standard cement and gypsum which is more wasteful and environmentally costly?
Unlike cement, lime mortars absorb CO2, use less energy to produce, have much better acoustics, are warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer.
Because my house walls are about 3 feet thick the lime mortar that covers it also allows the building to move and breath because it's less rigid.
The house is a cob structure built on a 3 course rubble-stone wall with no foundations or guttering it also has a straw roof, has been standing in the same place for over 300 years and blends nicely into it's surroundings in the south-west of England.
Lastly, when you use lime mortars there is no waste because what you don't use can be put into a container, sealed with a little water and will stay like that until you need to use it again. The older it is the stickier and better it becomes and when mixed with fibres like animal hair, hessian or sisal this increases it's tensile strength. I have worked in sustainable buildings since 1998 and if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them as best as I can.

[نادرالیراحمان]

Ecosia should finance providing contraceptives for poor people around the world after they're done planting trees. With the growing human population, I doubt many of those trees will survive.