Whether browsing the Web with search engines, buying a simple playful bracelet, design and eco-friendly, or by indulging in his guilty pleasure, what greed … You join all the same, beautiful and honorable actions: Replanting of trees in France and in the World.
Indeed, you can choose whether you want to give meaning to your life with gestures or responsible purchasing because Ecosia, Treez and Belvas are here for, and for you.
A small review of these three actions carried out.
This article is available, in French, just here. we are french and we hope the translation in English will be clear 😉
ECOSIA, Search Engine, uses our « clicks » to replant trees and saving the environment, without it costing us a penny !!! It is not wonderful life !!! So, knowing that, no question of finding excuses to browse the web other than visiting Ecosia !!
Founded in 2009 by Christian Kroll, the Ecosia team consists of 13 people, from all around the world, joining forces to make this search engine « which plants trees » as ergonomic as possible and translated in 47 languages !! Through their efforts for greater social and environmental impact while ensuring the greatest possible transparency (actions and decisions), Ecosia became the first German company to be certified B Corporation.
Ecosia works, firstly, thanks to advertising-related revenues (They receive about 0.5 cents per query to display these ads) to 2.5 million monthly active users who submit requests per 720,044 day. Then Ecosia reverse, every month, at least 80% of the amount of their turnover in a reforestation project. Note also, that last April, they were even able to repay 91% of the surplus , with a donation of 50,000 euros. And finally comes the reforestation project, where the monthly donations of Ecosia finance, since early 2015, the reforestation project We-Forest in the desert Sahel in Burkina Faso (planting a tree costs 28 cents euro). This project will benefit both the environment and the local population (which will improve their living conditions through the transformation of the desert into fertile forests), and thus, the possibility of sustainable agriculture .
Before and after reforestation.
Thanks to all those who use their search engine Ecosia has been able to plant:
- 2 million trees
- 14 times the size of Hyde Park (London) or
- 5.7 times the size of Central Park (New York)
This shows the magnitude of the task … The objective of Ecosia is to plant 1 billion trees by 2020 !!! Currently Ecosia plants a tree every 14 seconds.
Google + has 91% market share and treats 3.5 billion queries / day. « Imagine how many trees we could contribute to plant, if we were more likely to use search engine Ecosia ».
Note: A mobile application for Smartphones and Tablets is also available.
Also you can see view the number of trees that you have « helped to plant » on the top right of your screen, and it feels really good to know useful.
So I shout loudly … « BRAVO » & LONG LIFE to ECOSIA !!!
To access the search engine Ecosia, here are their addresses: www.ecosia.org
TREEZ, committed company who had the bright idea to design bracelets, trends, wood Jura, made in France and eco-designed to contribute to reforestation in the context of integration project.
At only 36 years, Alexis Krycève, co-founder of Pure project www.purprojet.com implemented since 2012, date of the foundation of the brand Treez, preserve biodiversity and fight against global warming.
Each wristband Treez purchased, you participate in the planting of a tree in the heart of a community reforestation project that contributes to the fight against climate change and to maintain an abundant biodiversity in areas undermined by deforestation. You can geotag your tree planting in his plot, through the code found in the cord of your Treez bracelet.
Each color Treez bracelets, corresponds to a tree planted in a continent:
- Red – ALTER TRADE, plant a tree in the Philippines
- Brown – BABURRAYYAN, plant a tree in Indonesia
- Yellow -DHAMMA RAKHSA, plant a tree in Thailand
- Green – ALTO Huayabamba, plant a tree in Peru
- Blue – PUR HEXAGON, plant a tree in France
- Rose – Kuapa Kokoo, plant a tree in Ghana
- Violet – MET, plant a tree in Transylvania
Thanks to the efforts of everyone, the ambitious target of Treez practicable. 25,000 trees in the world have already been planted since 2012, through the sale of bracelets and eco-designed accessories, and eur ambition is planting 1 million trees by 2017 = 500 football fields !!
We devoted an article on Treez bracelets and the efforts of its founder, last September.
This little bracelet is on sale online www.treez.fr the price of 12 euros.
I would just last word, it is good to know that there are people like Alexis Krycève, which is concerned with equal conviction, to preserve our planet.
LONG LIFE to TREEZ …
BELVAS & SEED FOR LIFE partnered to plant a tree for each purchased Baobab Madagascar chocolate. Indeed, the sin of greed has no place here because in buying this delicious Belgian chocolate milk in organic and fair trade, made of hazelnuts and powdered baobab, you are doing something for the planet. I had the chance to taste it and I really melt with pleasure !!!
1 chocolate baobab purchased = 1 tree planted
The chocolate baobab costs only 1.99 euros, then it would be a shame to deprive yourself, and moreover it combines a pleasure shopping to a good cause.
Then it’ll just take the code found inside the package, and go on www.belvas.be/baobab (opening soon), to plant a tree in Madagascar.
A ride on SEED FOR LIFE is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) created as a non-profit association under Belgian law and Luxembourg law, which pursues the objective of offsetting the ecological footprint of people in industrialized countries by planting trees in developing countries.
SEED FOR LIFE has planted more than 2 million trees since 6 years.
To ensure the monitoring and development of reforestation, Seed for Life creates a nursery in each of the planting sites and trains local nurseries to manage. Via local authorities and schools, it is developing a public awareness program to protect the environment. To achieve these goals, all its members are committed to volunteer to ensure that all funds entrusted to them directly and in full to serve nursery management and tree planting.
To learn more about the Association SEED FOR LIFE, visit: www.grainedevie.org
I wanted to welcome this great initiative from Belvas and Seed for Life, for having had the delicious idea of uniting « Pleasure » and « Responsibility ». BRAVO & CONTINUE LIKE THIS.
In conclusion :
You know what you have to do to buy responsible …
- Go to the search engine Ecosia … who plant trees
- To buy a bracelet Treez … that also plant trees
- While enjoying this divine chocolate Baobab Belvas (previously purchased), which always plant trees.
And all done, you have participated in the Reforestation … Lungs of our Planet !! It’s not pretty !!
If you also wish to express on the subject or if you know of other good and noble actions of the same type, do not hesitate to let us know and I’d be happy to respond.
Article written in French by Muriel L.
Ecosia Pictures by © WeForest & Beeldkas – Treez et Belvas pictures by © Ingrid B.