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How Ecosia works

Click the play button of the video below to get a idea about Ecosia’s concept. If you like the video please share it on Facebook. More detailed information about Ecosia can be found in the text below the video.

What Is Ecosia About?

Ecosia is an eco-friendly Internet search engine backed by Yahoo, Bing and the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). It basically works like any other search engine but, unlike others, Ecosia gives at least 80% of its advertising revenue to a rainforest protection program run by the WWF.
Because of this, Ecosia users can save about two square meters of rainforest with every search they do – without paying anything. Furthermore, all Ecosia servers run on green electricity, so they do not cause any CO2 emissions. By using Ecosia, you can turn your web searches green.

How Does Ecosia Generate Income?

Yahoo and Bing not only help us to provide excellent search results; they also supply us with the sponsored links that we need to generate advertising revenue. Sponsored links are short, relevant text ads, which are placed by companies aiming to sell their products and services to users of the search engine. Companies pay for each click on their sponsored link and every click on these ads generates a few cents of revenue for the search engine.
About 2% of Ecosia searches lead to a click on a sponsored link. Doing a mixed calculation of normal clicks and clicks on sponsored links, Ecosia earns about 0.13 Euro cents per search. We donate at least 80% of this income to the WWF. Thanks to these donations, we can save about two square meters with every search.

How Does Ecosia Save The Rainforest?

Ecosia does not conduct the rainforest protection scheme itself; instead we donate to a rainforest protection program run by the WWF. The current WWF project is located in Juruena National Park in the Amazon region of Brazil. Click here to learn more about the current rainforest protection project.

Why Should I Use Ecosia?

Every year a rainforest area larger than England is burned or cut down. Therefore the deforestation of the tropical rainforests is the single most important source of CO2 emissions in the world and about 20% of all global CO2 emissions are caused by rainforest deforestation.
Each Ecosia search protects a piece of rainforest, so by making Ecosia your search engine, you can actually help the environment one search at a time. An average internet user can protect about 2,000 square meters of rainforest every year by using Ecosia – this is about the size of an ice hockey field.
By making Ecosia your default search engine, you can turn your web searches green, reduce your carbon footprint and make a real difference to the planet. Instead of causing CO2 emissions with your searches, you can actually help to avoid climate change because your searches will help to save endangered rainforests.
Ecosia is also the best choice if you are concerned about privacy. Some search engine companies store your web searches for several months and even analyze them to create a profile of you. They sometimes even sell this information to other companies. Ecosia, in contrast, deletes all user-related data within a maximum of 48 hours.

How Can I Make Ecosia My Search Engine?

Whenever you want to search with Ecosia, you can simply go to the Ecosia homepage, type in your search terms and click the search button.
However, there is also a more convenient way to use Ecosia. Just click on the “install” link at the bottom of the Ecosia homepage and the Ecosia search will be added to your browser. You can then conveniently type your searches into your browser’s search box, so you don’t have to visit the Ecosia homepage every time you want to search for something. Once you have installed Ecosia, you can also see how much rainforest you have already saved.

Help To Spread The Word!

If you like Ecosia, we would be delighted if you recommend us to others. Since we donate most of our revenue, we cannot afford to spend much money on advertising. So we need YOU to spread the word. Please click on the “share” link to see how you can help spread the Ecosia gospel. We would dearly appreciate your help.
Remember that every new Ecosia user helps to save about 2,000 square meters of rainforest every year. If only 1% of global internet users accessed Ecosia for their web searches, we could save a rainforest area as big as Switzerland every single year. Together we can really make a difference!

Note: If you have any questions about Ecosia, please check out our FAQ section.

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About Catalog Choice

Catalog Choice is a free service that allows you to decide what gets in your mailbox. Use it to reduce your mailbox clutter, while helping save natural resources.

The organizations and services

Catalog Choice is a non-profit corporation based in Berkeley, California. We have worked in collaboration with The Ecology Center, National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council. We are funded through tax-deductible donations, grants from the Overbrook Foundation, the Merck Family Fund, Kendeda Fund, Weeden Foundation, Mead Foundation and Johnson Family Foundation. We supplement our tax deductible funding with services to companies that promote paperless communication and marketing programs. Purchases made through our iCatalogs help support our free mail preference service.

Our mission

The mission of Catalog Choice is to reduce the number of repeat and unwanted catalog mailings, and to promote the adoption of sustainable industry best practices. We aim to accomplish this by freely providing the Catalog Choice Mail Preference Service to both consumers and businesses. Consumers can indicate their mail preference for catalogs, and sign up for Email news, and businesses can receive the lists in a secure manner so that they can efficiently honor the requests.

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Protecting Website Data and Increasing Online Sales! Protecting Data
Over 73% of the websites we test fail their first PCI Compliance - Website Security Scan. That's a scary number! That means there is a huge chance your site is currently vulnerable to outside attacks from worms, trojans and hackers. Is your website and data safe?

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Considered the most prestigious race in NASCAR, the 200-lap Daytona 500 is also the most popular with more than 200,000 fans in attendance and millions watching worldwide. Racing for approximately 3 1/2 hours, where hundredths of seconds count, the race is often determined by the winning team's "pit strategy."

Pit strategy - determining when to stop and what functions to perform - has become an increasingly important feature of a race. That's because during a ten-second pit stop, competitors will gain about one quarter mile over the stopped car. The car that made the stop, however, may have an advantage because it is lighter, carrying less fuel, and have less wear on its tires so it can go faster on the turns.

Teams consider several factors in developing a pit strategy like rate of fuel consumption and tire wear, pit road length and speed limit, weather and lighting as well as competitors' pit strategies.

Efficiency can win or lose a race
With the margin of victory being only one or two seconds, the speed, agility and efficiency of the pit crew can win or lose a race. That's why each NASCAR pit crew member specializes in a specific task.

* Jackman - Jacks up the car so the tires can be replaced and pulls the right rear tire off after it's been loosened. He also signals the driver to leave the pit.
* The front tire changer - Changes only the front tires.
* The rear tire changer - Changes only the rear tires.
* The gas man - Using a special gas can, fills the car with gas or if the car needs little or no gas, helps remove old tires from the car.
* The gas catch man - Because fuel presents hazards on the track, the gas catch man catches any fuel overflow and holds an extra can of gas for the gas man if needed.
* Front tire carrier - Requiring Herculean strength, the front tire carrier brings the new front replacement tires over the pit and mounts them onto the studs.
* Rear tire carrier - In addition to bringing the new rear tire replacements over the pit and mounting them, the rear tire carrier must also roll the old tires to the pit wall.

Sometimes an eighth man is allowed into the pit to clean the windshield, attach sun visors, or provide the driver with fresh water.

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With quick turnarounds and tight deadlines, you may feel like you're on a race at work too. While you may not have a pit crew of your own, you can certainly enjoy the efficiencies they provide by keeping the right tools you need at your fingertips. Daily planners, desktop organizers, and special filing systems can help you work swiftly and efficiently towards your own finish line each day. Visit your office supply store to see how they can put you on the fast

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An uninterruptible power supply, also uninterruptible power source, UPS or battery backup, is an electrical apparatus that provides emergency power to a load when the input power source, typically the utility mains, fails. A UPS differs from an auxiliary or emergency power system or standby generator in that it will provide instantaneous or near-instantaneous protection from input power interruptions by means of one or more attached batteries and associated electronic circuitry.

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