I've said it many times and I'll say it again; this is the ONLY corporation I truly like. Ecosia and all the brilliant people behind it can never be underestimated, and this service is underrated as hell.
I spent the first three minutes really confused because "how could they have gotten it so wrong to choose that tree for the video???". Well played Fátima, well played
@@Ecosia Sorry Ecosia but You travel too much with Air-Plane as Climate Organisation, in a Social Responsibility Rolle. You are not good enough. But maybe later ! Lg
It's a shame that so much time, money, and effort is being wasted on ineffective ecosystem restoration. I applaud Ecosia's effort into trying to improve the system!
Not any longer, as the tree counter is gone, for no discernible reason... Bring it back please!!! Why do all companies these days insist on removing functionality and making their products worse? I love Ecosia and it's goals, and want to see it succeed - and the tree counter was a unique, fun feature that made a user more likely to stick with Ecosia.
@@robbiejames1540I think they should bring back the tree counter too! I've been using ecosia for a 8 months but i don't know how many trees i have planted. But i completly love ecosia, and even without the tree counter i will still continue to use ❤❤ a big thank you from Brazil here 🇧🇷❤ love ecosia❤❤❤
We will be deploying The Global Biodiversity Standard in many of our upcoming projects. Love to see real outcomes based in sound science from an independent organization. Absolutely Necessary!!
can't believe I've been using ecosia for 5 years now, it has been so great to watch their evolution. I think this label will be so helpful, so i hope it gets the recognition it deserves ^^
Damn... Now THIS, as an environemntal geographer, is something I'd like to see every day ! Thank you Ecosia, you really show that you care not just about the image that you have, but more importantly about the lasting effects you have on the social-ecological systems you influence, as a true environmental organisation. I am grateful for you guys !
Thank you Ecosia!!! I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. I am very happy that Ecosia has taken up this issue and solved it so excellently.
Same thing happened in the uk in the late 70s / early 80s. There was a massive tree planting project. I’m just old enough to remember some stories in Newsround etc. All the trees were planted and then just left. Guess what! They all died apparently. When I heard about this and remembered the old news stories, I was like ‘oh yeah, what happened to the trees!’ Anyway, well done. Great idea. Let’s hope it has a big impact
I'm not what anyone would call an activist, but I've been using Ecosia for many years now. I like the idea that it makes at least a small difference and NOT using the Google-monster is a big plus for me.
In Western Australia the road guys don’t allow tree planting within 10m of a road reserve because of road safety. Our canopy cover is abysmal as it is.
Thank you for educating us about the proper ways to do this! Albuquerque, New Mexico, is infested by several types of trees that, in this climate, are basically tree-sized weeds, because they grow easily in our conditions though they aren't native species, so they've taken over and tend to squeeze out trees that actually do well in and for this area. Several former mayors &/or governors had campaigns to improve our biodiversity with these foreign species, and now we'll be working for decades to control the invasive species that are choking out our native flora. If we can get future civic leaders to turn to you for environmental advice, it would be beneficial for everyone involved! Thanks again for spreading accurate knowledge--it's always helpful!
What an excellent initiative!! There is so much ineffective tree planting going on, which is a huge waste of time and resources and only serves to fool the general public and make them disillusioned. I hope that the GBS really helps to resolve that issue. I'm glad to be with Ecosia.
Can we PLEASE go back to a time when one had one's internet search count using ECOSIA shown as the number of trees planted? I loved knowing how many trees my searches planted and would love to know again! Why the change?
This is great! There also should be a space on the sticker the write a company reference number or QR code, so someone can't use the sticker to fake involvement, then you could have a website that links that number to a database of companies.
Good video. You didn't need the houseplant for a prop, though. I'm using Ecosia as an alternative to the google search. Ecosia plants trees. Google doesn't.
"Oh no whatever shall we do with this houseplant, would be a shame if i had to take it home so that it does not go to waste🤑🪴" some teammember probably
thank you for the great work! I have been with you since 2017 and have never regretted it. You may not be enrolling AI into the research method, but you are definitely enrolling real human intelligence into the work you do for this planet. Love from a user
This is awesome! A trustworthy certification for tree planting will make a huge difference in helping regular consumers know which projects to back. It's so cool that Ecosia was directly involved in developing something like this. 💚🌎🌳
I think this will be very important to separate greenwashing and genuine work! It will make it easier for consumers and companies to set demand on the actions they support
Congratulations Ecosia, it is really time for a more quality and integral view on such projects and so a science based certification for renaturation. Besides the best way to protect a existing healthy, biodiversity environment is not to change through human activity.
Yeah, reforestation is different than monoculture tree pharming. Like replacing native diversity & interplanting berries for wildlife, considering forests can give us foods, medicines, latex, fibres & dyes. Oh, and mushrooms. Don't forget the local mycorrhizal fun guys!
Ecosia needs to partner with some electric cargo bicycle maker and solar panels with battery storage to power them. This partnership would help partners on the ground be more sustainable.
In the UK HS2 demolished swathes of ancient woodland ecosystems that take centuries to establish, and thought they could just plant rows of new saplings to counter this effect. Many of these saplings died because they weren't monitored afterwards, or didn't fit where they were planted, but all the HS2 publicity spinners wanted to do was dazzle critics with numbers. Classic greenwashing.
You can show/make positive heath or more money in conservation from changes measurable trough this standard, then you can capture in plans how bountifull nature can be
Logging companies need to pull their weight and plant 2 trees to every tree they cut down….automation tree planters should be a priority when it comes down to robotic manufacturing
It's good you're fighting against greenwashing, but your title for this video was too click-bait-y. It got me upset. I'll keep using your search engine but don't slam on other environment groups like One Tree Planted or Trees for the Future like you did.
Hallo! Leider nicht... aber Untertitel. Um TH-cam-Untertitel in einer beliebigen Sprache zu aktivieren, klicke unten rechts auf das Untertitel-Symbol und dann auf das Zahnrad-Symbol (Einstellungen). Wähle dabb unter „Untertitel“ Deutsch aus :)
Hi there! Thanks for watching. Sorry to hear you stopped using Ecosia. However, we plant no monocultures and also no mangrove monocultures. Not sure what you are referring to? Curious to understand in case other people hold the same information! Cheers
I want to emphasize that, as someone based in Europe and the Balkans, I find this narrative to be overly strong. I believe such a stark polarization between good and bad carries significant negative potential. The solution, in my view, doesn't lie in coining new terms or phrases but in providing scientific support to foster better understanding and help society progress. Certain projects could serve as a remedy for past issues, contributing to a deeper collective understanding within society. However, I feel that rigid taxonomies of different approaches only deepen the divide on the path to comprehension. There are already too many myths surrounding reforestation and the revitalization of certain regions. By introducing polarized viewpoints, we risk adding new myths about what is "wrong" versus "right." For these reasons, I disagree with the narrative and core messages presented in this video.
Hi there! Thanks for watching and for the thoughtful feedback. We're sorry to read that it felt like we were trying to polarize the conversation. That is well taken feedback! We agree 100% with you that any missteps in regeneration/tree-planting (read: no significant results in increasing biodiversity, improving lives and other mentioned factors) need to be followed by supporting the teams and organizations to do better. That's exactly what Ecosia has been doing for 15 years now and what we aim to help scale with TGBS (and the amazing BGCI as the main driver behind this seal) --- sorry to hear that didn't come through in the video! Hope that helps nuance our point of view. We strongly encourage you go through the whole website of TGBS, they've done a fantastic job at summarizing our common approach here. Cheers!
@@Ecosia I'm really excited for you all. Thank you for your advocacy. Your comment does help build my confidence. Have you thought of encouraging people & organizations to invest in shrubs and local plants, instead of local trees? I think that that might be cheaper and less intimidating for a lot of people and organizations, and then they won't be afraid of getting a bad rating.
Checked out the website, looked for more of a technical explanation about techniques within the system. Is it a design science like permaculture? Do you help educate groups into achieving that standard or is it to evaluate stuff that has already been done to show the best examples?
Simple solution stop cutting trees down and use hemp instead for toilet paper clothing food oil to replace the use of firewood knowledge of this has been lost and needs to be returned to stop the land degradation and deforestation worldwide Hemp can also be used to replace the throwaway plastic bags stores use it is totally biodegradable
It'd be a shame if all that effort you guys put into saving the planet gets diminished by something like, oh I don’t know, using an AI chatbot? Stop supporting Ecosia Chat, damnit. Generative AI isn’t a bandwagon to the future, it’s a tremendous waste of energy and resources.
I am reminded that I think differently than 99% of people. Do you really think the title of this video is helpful? How about, "Tree planting has been done wrong. How we are fixing it."
I've said it many times and I'll say it again; this is the ONLY corporation I truly like. Ecosia and all the brilliant people behind it can never be underestimated, and this service is underrated as hell.
Fairphone is pretty good too
Its a political entity... Not an agency to promote bio diversity!
Mossy Earth seems pretty genuine as well
@@jerommenicanmvez yup. support them every year!
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I spent the first three minutes really confused because "how could they have gotten it so wrong to choose that tree for the video???". Well played Fátima, well played
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@@Ecosia Sorry Ecosia but You travel too much with Air-Plane as Climate Organisation, in a Social Responsibility Rolle. You are not good enough.
But maybe later !
Lg
@@bozku8815you miss the all idea. Being negative does not help anything, anywhere. Why are you using Internet, it spends so much energy and water?!
@@bozku8815 Have you measured their travels and compared it to their positive impacts?
@ Positiv impact is Positiv Impcat. Travel with Co2 Bomb Maschine, every Video, is what it is.
It's a shame that so much time, money, and effort is being wasted on ineffective ecosystem restoration. I applaud Ecosia's effort into trying to improve the system!
So proud! I have been using Ecosia for over 15 years! They tell me I have helped build 189 trees! I sleep well at night!
@@gamingtonight1526 you’ve been with us since the start then 💚
Not any longer, as the tree counter is gone, for no discernible reason... Bring it back please!!! Why do all companies these days insist on removing functionality and making their products worse? I love Ecosia and it's goals, and want to see it succeed - and the tree counter was a unique, fun feature that made a user more likely to stick with Ecosia.
@@robbiejames1540I think they should bring back the tree counter too! I've been using ecosia for a 8 months but i don't know how many trees i have planted. But i completly love ecosia, and even without the tree counter i will still continue to use ❤❤ a big thank you from Brazil here 🇧🇷❤ love ecosia❤❤❤
Can't wait for the first Billion Trees planted together with the great and wonderful Ecosia Comunity. Thanks you all! 💚
@@Trondborg this🥺🫶
I hope, this initiative will direct more funds to projects that have a positive impact.
This actually got me hooked up on how trees planting projects actually should have more thought into them, good job.
Ecosia being the Hero of today's world, this will go down in history.
We will be deploying The Global Biodiversity Standard in many of our upcoming projects. Love to see real outcomes based in sound science from an independent organization. Absolutely Necessary!!
Where are you based? I wish Aotearoa NZ could move past large damaging pine monoculture
can't believe I've been using ecosia for 5 years now, it has been so great to watch their evolution. I think this label will be so helpful, so i hope it gets the recognition it deserves ^^
So proud to be a part of this change, even in a small way by using Ecosia. I can only contribute more from here.
Hell yeah! Good work Ecosia!
Damn... Now THIS, as an environemntal geographer, is something I'd like to see every day ! Thank you Ecosia, you really show that you care not just about the image that you have, but more importantly about the lasting effects you have on the social-ecological systems you influence, as a true environmental organisation. I am grateful for you guys !
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Thank you and congratulations for your continued success
big shoutout to you guys our grandchildren will thank you one day
boosting for the algorithm!
I use Ecosia since a few years now, thanks guys!
What you are doing is just beautiful! 👍💪✌
Thanks for the support and for watching 💛
Really great work! Hope this reaches a lot of people!
I'm really happy to see there is actually some kind of effort being made to ensure a good biodiversity system out there, Thank you for your work!
Thank you Ecosia!!! I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. I am very happy that Ecosia has taken up this issue and solved it so excellently.
Same thing happened in the uk in the late 70s / early 80s. There was a massive tree planting project. I’m just old enough to remember some stories in Newsround etc. All the trees were planted and then just left. Guess what! They all died apparently. When I heard about this and remembered the old news stories, I was like ‘oh yeah, what happened to the trees!’ Anyway, well done. Great idea. Let’s hope it has a big impact
I'm not what anyone would call an activist, but I've been using Ecosia for many years now. I like the idea that it makes at least a small difference and NOT using the Google-monster is a big plus for me.
Love your work 👍
In Western Australia the road guys don’t allow tree planting within 10m of a road reserve because of road safety.
Our canopy cover is abysmal as it is.
Truly appreciate the work that this organization is doing!
🎉 great initiative!
Such important work, thank you!!!
This is amazing to hear. I hope it spreads far and wide!
Thank you for educating us about the proper ways to do this! Albuquerque, New Mexico, is infested by several types of trees that, in this climate, are basically tree-sized weeds, because they grow easily in our conditions though they aren't native species, so they've taken over and tend to squeeze out trees that actually do well in and for this area. Several former mayors &/or governors had campaigns to improve our biodiversity with these foreign species, and now we'll be working for decades to control the invasive species that are choking out our native flora. If we can get future civic leaders to turn to you for environmental advice, it would be beneficial for everyone involved! Thanks again for spreading accurate knowledge--it's always helpful!
What an excellent initiative!! There is so much ineffective tree planting going on, which is a huge waste of time and resources and only serves to fool the general public and make them disillusioned. I hope that the GBS really helps to resolve that issue. I'm glad to be with Ecosia.
Thanks fro watching and the lovely words 💛
Can we PLEASE go back to a time when one had one's internet search count using ECOSIA shown as the number of trees planted? I loved knowing how many trees my searches planted and would love to know again! Why the change?
THIS^^^ Why did Ecosia remove one of it's best features??? We know it's not the exact number, but it's really fun to see an estimate anyway!
This is great! There also should be a space on the sticker the write a company reference number or QR code, so someone can't use the sticker to fake involvement, then you could have a website that links that number to a database of companies.
This is awesome! Like Fair Trade but for trees! 🌎
Good video. You didn't need the houseplant for a prop, though. I'm using Ecosia as an alternative to the google search. Ecosia plants trees. Google doesn't.
"Oh no whatever shall we do with this houseplant, would be a shame if i had to take it home so that it does not go to waste🤑🪴" some teammember probably
Or less cynical: maybe it was just a houseplant of one of the teammembers
thank you for the great work! I have been with you since 2017 and have never regretted it. You may not be enrolling AI into the research method, but you are definitely enrolling real human intelligence into the work you do for this planet. Love from a user
Thank you Ecosia, thank you Fátima for the video
Thank you people
"it's a burrito" at the end from the camera man 🤣🤩
great video again 😘
Ecosia is one of the best initiatives I know
This is awesome! A trustworthy certification for tree planting will make a huge difference in helping regular consumers know which projects to back. It's so cool that Ecosia was directly involved in developing something like this. 💚🌎🌳
I think this will be very important to separate greenwashing and genuine work! It will make it easier for consumers and companies to set demand on the actions they support
Please bring back the tree counter and the search by date option.
These corps would be better off letting Ecosia manage their tree planting efforts.
You should partner with Planet Wild and Mossy Earth in this standard
I have a class presentation on Ecosia
proud to be supporting such an amazing org
Well done. Awesome work!
Great video! Go Ecosia!
Thanks to you I have a opener mind!
The most important is the soil to storage water, co2, Gases.... and colorful/diverse permaculture reforestation
Much needed great work.
Very fantastic and inspiring.
The more you know! You guys are amazing!
Congratulations Ecosia, it is really time for a more quality and integral view on such projects and so a science based certification for renaturation. Besides the best way to protect a existing healthy, biodiversity environment is not to change through human activity.
This is an amazing work!
Another really good video, keep it going!❤
Love the idea! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Guys, you are the best! so inspiring 🌴
Great informational video, great work
Glad you liked it!! Thanks for watching!
Bien, hagan mas videos!
Love you guys, keep up the great technogaiaism
Big up ecosia
Yeah, reforestation is different than monoculture tree pharming. Like replacing native diversity & interplanting berries for wildlife, considering forests can give us foods, medicines, latex, fibres & dyes. Oh, and mushrooms. Don't forget the local mycorrhizal fun guys!
Ecosia needs to partner with some electric cargo bicycle maker and solar panels with battery storage to power them.
This partnership would help partners on the ground be more sustainable.
great stuff
nice!
In the UK HS2 demolished swathes of ancient woodland ecosystems that take centuries to establish, and thought they could just plant rows of new saplings to counter this effect. Many of these saplings died because they weren't monitored afterwards, or didn't fit where they were planted, but all the HS2 publicity spinners wanted to do was dazzle critics with numbers. Classic greenwashing.
That scarf at 1:14 .... grrrrr
It's clean now 🧼😂
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You can show/make positive heath or more money in conservation from changes measurable trough this standard, then you can capture in plans how bountifull nature can be
Allahumma barik
I love this! Can it apply to smaller operations, like farms?
Missed opportunity to call it Treeplanting Reporting & Evaluation Exemplar
And that is how I planted dads' potted plant in the garden.
Please just save us we are counting on you😊😊😊
Logging companies need to pull their weight and plant 2 trees to every tree they cut down….automation tree planters should be a priority when it comes down to robotic manufacturing
The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤🎉
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Nice.
It's good you're fighting against greenwashing, but your title for this video was too click-bait-y. It got me upset. I'll keep using your search engine but don't slam on other environment groups like One Tree Planted or Trees for the Future like you did.
Another certificate! At least this one looks useful. ;)
Gibt es eigentlich das Video auf Deutsch 🤔
Hallo! Leider nicht... aber Untertitel. Um TH-cam-Untertitel in einer beliebigen Sprache zu aktivieren, klicke unten rechts auf das Untertitel-Symbol und dann auf das Zahnrad-Symbol (Einstellungen). Wähle dabb unter „Untertitel“ Deutsch aus :)
The first time I heard the term green washing was this year in relation to israel destruction of palestinian towns and an Org called JNF.
And?
Confused. Stopped using ecosia because of a documentary on ecosias projects on Madagascar (mangrove-monoculture)...
Hoping for the change.
Hi there! Thanks for watching. Sorry to hear you stopped using Ecosia. However, we plant no monocultures and also no mangrove monocultures. Not sure what you are referring to? Curious to understand in case other people hold the same information! Cheers
Where can we find the projects that do meet the standard? I cannot find it on the website.
commenting for algorithm
I want to emphasize that, as someone based in Europe and the Balkans, I find this narrative to be overly strong. I believe such a stark polarization between good and bad carries significant negative potential. The solution, in my view, doesn't lie in coining new terms or phrases but in providing scientific support to foster better understanding and help society progress.
Certain projects could serve as a remedy for past issues, contributing to a deeper collective understanding within society. However, I feel that rigid taxonomies of different approaches only deepen the divide on the path to comprehension. There are already too many myths surrounding reforestation and the revitalization of certain regions. By introducing polarized viewpoints, we risk adding new myths about what is "wrong" versus "right."
For these reasons, I disagree with the narrative and core messages presented in this video.
I applaud them, but I agree that more complexity results in less effort.
Et à moi elle me fait l'impression de vendre des voitures ou des hamburgers.
Hi there!
Thanks for watching and for the thoughtful feedback. We're sorry to read that it felt like we were trying to polarize the conversation. That is well taken feedback! We agree 100% with you that any missteps in regeneration/tree-planting (read: no significant results in increasing biodiversity, improving lives and other mentioned factors) need to be followed by supporting the teams and organizations to do better. That's exactly what Ecosia has been doing for 15 years now and what we aim to help scale with TGBS (and the amazing BGCI as the main driver behind this seal) --- sorry to hear that didn't come through in the video!
Hope that helps nuance our point of view. We strongly encourage you go through the whole website of TGBS, they've done a fantastic job at summarizing our common approach here.
Cheers!
@@Jaguar1910 I did not have that impression. I think that they might be vegan and might try to ride bikes.
@@Ecosia I'm really excited for you all. Thank you for your advocacy. Your comment does help build my confidence.
Have you thought of encouraging people & organizations to invest in shrubs and local plants, instead of local trees? I think that that might be cheaper and less intimidating for a lot of people and organizations, and then they won't be afraid of getting a bad rating.
Checked out the website, looked for more of a technical explanation about techniques within the system. Is it a design science like permaculture? Do you help educate groups into achieving that standard or is it to evaluate stuff that has already been done to show the best examples?
Simple solution stop cutting trees down and use hemp instead for toilet paper clothing food oil to replace the use of firewood knowledge of this has been lost and needs to be returned to stop the land degradation and deforestation worldwide Hemp can also be used to replace the throwaway plastic bags stores use it is totally biodegradable
Is the Arbor Day Foundation a good non-profit?
Can you bring back the t-shirts with the Ecosia logo? I really wanted one but now theyre no longer made
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Until they buy that one to 😂😂😂
Comment peux on rejoindre le projets. I'd dream of working at naking along side you heros. Vous êtes inspirante.
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It'd be a shame if all that effort you guys put into saving the planet gets diminished by something like, oh I don’t know, using an AI chatbot?
Stop supporting Ecosia Chat, damnit. Generative AI isn’t a bandwagon to the future, it’s a tremendous waste of energy and resources.
💚🌲💚
I am reminded that I think differently than 99% of people.
Do you really think the title of this video is helpful?
How about, "Tree planting has been done wrong. How we are fixing it."
Thanks for the feedback! We changed the last bit 😊
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You should contact MrBeast to talk about this or do another tree planting intiative (the right way)!
Why wont you take off your scarf while digging 😭? That should be a crime !
It was SO cold. So, so, so cold in Berlin winter 🥶 But the scarf us clean now!