So, I've planted over 1000 trees without leaving my house

Here’s how you can do it too

Olabanji Stephen
2 min readSep 16, 2022

Minomi, my friend was so excited on a call the other day. She had planted a hundred trees. She didn’t believe it. How she moved from I have more important things to care about right now to being concerned about the climate and helping by planting trees.

We plant trees with ecosia and my tree count is now a little over a thousand.

Ecosia is a not-for-profit B corp. They use the incredible profits that are generated by search to plant trees. An adequate and eco-friendly alternative to google

By planting trees and offsetting its energy use with renewables, Ecosia actually removes .5 kg of CO2 from the air each time you use it, which makes Ecosia a carbon-negative search engine.

If Ecosia were as big as Google, it could absorb 15% of all global CO2 emissions!
So far Ecosia has planted over 158 million trees.

It’s easy to get started. You plant trees simply by doing what you already do — search the internet

Get started by adding the ecosia extension to your browser, then make it your default search engine.

There you go. That’s it.

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Olabanji Stephen
Olabanji Stephen

Written by Olabanji Stephen

I see the world differently and attempt to interpret it in ways that inspire genius

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