Search Engines for the Planet

Search Engines that raise money for charities seems to be growing in popularity. I do enjoy using them to help raise money for my favorite causes. Below is a small list and my favorite Charity Search Engines. Every search counts and helps. The more we can get others to join in, the more money can be raised to help worthy causes.


Charity Cafe is powered by Ask.com with 100% of the profits collected going to Greenpeace, WWF and Oxfam.

GoodSearch is powered by Yahoo! Search and donates 50% of all profits to various charities and schools. One of the best things about GoodSearch is that you can pick and choose the charity or school you would like to donate to if they are listed with GoodSearch.

GoodTree is powered by Yahoo! and MSN. GoodTree allows you to pick and choose your charity that is listed with them. I do not know how much of the money generated goes to charity.


GreenSearch is powered by Google. Currently GreenSearch is raising money for Rainforest Alliance but does not state how much of the profit goes to charity.


Goo [also called green goo] is a Japanese search engine that is powered by Google. Most all of the websites on Goo are in Japanese. I use a translator like Babel Fish to help me read the web pages. 15% of the profits goes to KEEP to help plant trees.

Lookle is an Australian search engine that is partnered with Yahoo! Search. Various different charities, hospitals, schools etc are helped. It is unclear how much of the profits goes to helping organizations.

Magic Taxi is teamed up with Yahoo! Search and give 50% of the profits to various charities.

Ripple works with Google to give 100% of the profits to Water Aid, Grameen, Oxfam and Oaktree.

Search and Give is powered by LiveSearch. Pick your charity to raise money for. I am unsure how much of the money raised goes to charity.

SearchGive generates about $0.01 per search. They will give to various charities when you reach $25. They are an independent search engine.

SearchKindly is powered by Google and donates to various charities. 1/3 of a cent is raised with every search.

Clicks4Cancer is powered by Yahoo! Search. It works when you click on an advertiser's link and make a purchase. Clicks4Cancer collections commissions and donates 70% of the profits to several different organizations for cancer.

ClicksCount [also called Click for a Cause] is powered by Widows Live Search. It works similar to Clicks4Cancer and gives to NSPPC. I have no information on how much of the profits that ClicksCount actually donates to the NSPPC.

EveryClick is powered by Ask.com and gives 50% of its revenue to charity every month. The UK engine gives to a wide variety of charities.



2 Energy Saving Search Engines: Please be aware that your monitor makes a world of difference when trying to conserve energy.

Blackle claims to be powered by Google and claims that being black saves on energy. You can read more about this at: How is Blackle saving energy?, Black Google Saves Energy, Wikipedia: Blackle.com
and other places if you just 'Google' for Blackle.

The Green Spider is another Google powered search engine that states you can save energy while searching with it. It seems to be a spin-off of Blackle but allowing you to choose different color backgrounds. More about how this green web weaver works at The Green Spider: The Theroy.

*Note: Please do research on Blackle and Green Spider: You'll find they do not live up to their claims.

Footprints Calculators

If you are interested in calculating your footprints or carbon emissions I have a small list of websites that can help.

EcologyFund Footprints Calculator

Environmental Defense Paper Calculator

Carbon Diet Calculator

Native Energy CO2 Emissions Calculator

Nature Conservancy Carbon Footprint Calculator

Be Green Carbon Calculator

Zero Footprint Calculator

Earth Day Footprint Calculator

TerraPass Footprint Calculator

Yahoo! Green Carbon Footprint Calculator

WWF Footprint Calculator

The Carbon Account Calculator

Carbon Footprint Calculator

EPA Personal Emissions Calculator

Climate Crisis Calculator

Carbon Zero Calculator

Free E-Cards to Save the Planet

I know of three websites that will donate money to help with charity causes by sending a free e-card to a friend or family member. The more e-cards you send, the more money is raised to help save the planet.

Rainforest Site E-Cards

Care2 E-Cards

Red Jellyfish E-Cards

Bird Habitat E-Cards

If anyone can help to add to this free e-card list it would greatly help.

Free Email to Save the Amazon Rainforest

There are several companies offering free web based email accounts (like Hotmail and Yahoo!), but only few which donate a portion of their revenue to charity. So far I have found three of these:

Planet-Save

EcologyFund

Care2

The biggest advantage of using Planet-Save or Care2 instead of Hotmail is the amount of junkmail you are going to get. Even if you never tell anyone about your Hotmail account, you will soon start receiving junkmail and lots of it. With Planet-Save you will be getting significantly less junkmail if at all.

In addition to receiving less junkmail there are other benefits as well. For example you don't need to login every 30 days to keep your Planet-Save account active (like you do with Hotmail). For a simple comparison see the chart below. The chart refers to the free email service offered by each and Hotmail is included only as a comparison (using Hotmail does NOT create donations).


Resource: http://www.easydonations.net/email.htm





The above was taken from the Easy Donations Website and provides great information about how the email charity system works. I have found another site that provides free email services and donates to help save the rainforest: WildGlobe.com. You can sign up for free to receive your @wildglobe.com email.

About WildGlobe:
WildGlobe is a leading environmental portal site on the Internet. The site was created by the founders of CharityMall and EcologyFund, which together raise funds through the Internet for more than 2,000 charities and their projects.


Also note that the EcologyFund webmail does not use pop-ups anymore. Their email system is up to date and great to use. Your new email with EcologyFund will be @ecologyfund.net

One more to note is Bird Habitat. Your new email will be @conservebirdhabitat.com. All proceeds go to The Nature Conservancy's Adopt-an-Acre Program.

It's Free to Give

Welcome to my new blog. If you find time please check out the websites I have linked to this blog. I have linked to some of my favorite Websites and Weblogs.

I also urge you to please visit the Free: Click or Play to Donate Sites I have linked. It only takes a few minutes a day to click daily at these sites; in doing so, you will help to donate to eliminate hunger, violence, abuse, destruction and more.

The Free Rice and Free Flour sites are not for clicking once a day but instead you play a fun quiz game to help feed the hungry, there is no limit on how much you can give per day with these two sites. I find them very addicting.

One more play to help is The Experience Project. You can switch to play for cats or dogs. It's another addicting and fun learning game while helping to feed animals. The more you play, the more is donated.

You will also notice two more notable sites in my Free: Click or Play to Donate area For Trees and Race to Share. For Trees is a site that you can leave a message on the Ecotonoha tree; for every 100 messages on the tree a real tree will be planted - note: only one leaf per day.

The Race to Share site is a great site for helping the hungry. For every story you share Country Crock will donate to help end hunger through America's Second Harvest.


It's all about helping, and any time that you can help someone, go out and do it because it makes you feel better. It makes you a better person. ~Kim Perrot