In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at whether the search engine Ecosia is legit. Specifically, I figure out if Ecosia is real when they say Ecosia plants trees for ...

Qwant, France’s privacy-focused search engine, and Ecosia, a Berlin-based not-for-profit search engine that uses ad revenue to fund tree planting and other climate-focused initiatives ...

Christian Kroll, a German entrepreneur, created Ecosia in 2009 from his Berlin apartment, where it became the world's first non-profit search engine. He continues to run the non-profit as its CEO.