A Green Search Engine
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A Green Search Engine
Hi there!
I just ran across something that surprised me and pleased me at the same tîme. It’s a search engine that plants trees in return for using the search engine! And it’s not “just any old” search engine, it’s the Yahoo! search engine powering Ecocho’s engine. It’s also not that new (just new to me) – they’ve been doing this for four years.
How does it work? Well, it’s really simple – go to http://www.ecocho.co.uk/ecocho-tools.php (or test it out at the top of the sidebar here on our site first) and make it your search engine! It gives the same results as Yahoo! search, it’s as fast as Yahoo! search, and for every thousand searches, they will grow – notice the difference, not plant, but grow – two trees. This takes place in an Australian provincial government tree farm, and two healthy trees should be responsible for removing one metric ton (that’s about 1.1 US short tons) of CO2 from the atmosphere every year.
Here’s a quote from our common web hosting company:
Ecocho is a Yahoo-powered search engine that is working to help fight climate change. For every 1,000 searches made, the company plants two trees. To date, the company has planted more than 7,500 trees and helped neutralize nearly 4,000,000 kilos of CO2.
Think about the equation: you put in searches, just as you do it now, you get back results, just as you do now + two trees will be grown per 1000 searches! It’s difficult to do any better than that! Talk about practical greenology – this is it!
Here are the main links again – you can read more about the entire program there (their operation is also carbon neutral – big surprise? no, not really 
and they even have a low energy “black” online version that takes less energy to display on your computer )
http://www.ecocho.co.uk
or
http://www.ecocho.eu
and select your preferences – country version, and white or black versions.
We’ll be using it, hope you join us and help us grow trees! 
Please note: Ecocho is NOT a non-profit organisation, but we (Sue & Craig Websites) feel that their effort is worthy of response, and we receive only “warm fuzzy feelings” if you click on any of their links here.
Jimmy Craig
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Sue & Craig Websites
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