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To: University of Hull Student Union Council
University of Hull to use Ecosia.org as default search engine
Please change the default search engine on the University of Hull system from Google to Ecosia. This is such small change because Ecosia is powered by Google and you can even do a search THROUGH Google.
"If only 1% of global internet users accessed Ecosia for their web searches, we could save a rainforest area as big as Switzerland each year" [1]
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/dec/03/ecosia-green-search-engine
Why is this important?
Ecosia.org is a website which donates 80% of its profits from online advertisements revenue to a tree planting project in Brazil, the home of the Amazon Rainforest - in association with WWF.
This website is building in popularity and we can all help it and help the planet through increasing biodiversity, protecting such an amazing natural beauty and offsetting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, something which cannot be done through Carbon Capture technologies*
(*Due to the fact that there is only approximately 0.04% (400 parts per million) CO2 in the atmosphere - as researched by the University of Sheffield)
