Make Ecosia the Default Browser on all computers
Tia Burden submitted on
Saturday 9th February 2019
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A google search uses energy equivalent to boiling a kettle twice! Whereas Ecosia’s servers run completely by solar energy from their solar plant meaning Ecosia is carbon neutral. Not only this, but profits from searches are used to plant trees, which is removing carbon from the atmosphere while doing something you would do anyway. Ecosia empowers communities they work with by providing jobs, control over the projects and empowerment to women. Trees help improve water security, in Uganda, a well that provided for one family can now provide for a whole village since trees were planted there through Ecosias project.
Responses
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Students' Union replied on
Wednesday 5th Jun 2019 3:55pm
Hi Tia,
Thank you for your submission. I contacted the relevant staff who have explained that we can't set search engines for our computers centrally beyond Internet Explorer or Edge. What we would recommend is contacting ISolutions and asking them if they are able to do so. I would recommend contacting Bhu at b.s.siran@soton.ac.uk.
Best wishes,
Isabella Camilleri
VP Welfare
SUSU
Students' Union replied on
Thursday 21st Feb 2019 2:53pm
Hi Tia,
Thank you for your submission! Please share with students to try and gain more upvotes to whether they feel this is a good idea. (I do!) and will look into the feasibility of this.
Best wishes,
Isabella Camilleri
VP Welfare
University of Southampton Students' Union
Actions
Forwarded to Sustainability
Friday 15th Feb 2019 1:35pm
Comments
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If this is to be considered, I would like to see some investigation into the search engine. For example, I would hate for it to come to light in the future that thousands of southampton students and academics have been having their web research influenced by a nefarious entity, such as a foreign government (of course google is also questionable, but that is another issue).
You mean search engine.
Your assertion that a google search requires the same energy as boiling 2 kettles is nothing but urban myth with no factual basis, google has essentially running on 100% renewable energy since the end of 2017. https://sustainability.google/projects/announcement-100
Ecosia uses Bing search engine results, so the only difference here is where ad revenue is going.