Ocean Warrior Affiliates
We're proud to support our Ocean Warrior affiliates by highlighting their cause and encouraging users to visit their web site to learn how they can participate in and support their activities.
How Your Searches Help The Ocean
Like any search engine, we make money when users click on sponsored links
Relevant sponsored links may appear in the search results, and are clearly marked as Ads.
Whenever these are clicked on, it generates revenue for our ocean conservation partners.
How You Can Help Clean Our Oceans Everyday
Install the Ekoru app into your desktop browser or onto your phone
Installing the app lets you use Ekoru every day to search and surf helping the ocean. Try it today!
Cleaning Plastic From The Ocean
Every Search Helps Remove Plastic From Our Ocean With Big Blue Ocean Cleanup. Ambassadors around the world cleaning oceans and coastlines, as well as rescue teams helping marine animals in distress.
Cleanup Teams Around The World
Volunteers making a difference
Saving Marine Animals
Removing hazardous nets from the ocean
Underwater Cleanup Teams
Cleaning above and below
Scientific Research
Measuring presence of microplastics in the ocean
Reforesting the Ocean
Every Search Helps Replant Ocean Seagrass and Fight Climate Change With Operation Posidonia. Scientists at University New South Wales and Sydney Institute of Marine Science are fighting climate change by reforesting our ocean with seagrass - the blue carbon sink which is actually green!
Replanting Ocean Seagrass
Underwater diving teams replant seagrass meadows
Fighting Climate Change
Seagrass absorb CO2 40 times faster than rainforest trees
Ongoing Research
Teams undertaking scientific research to develop new techniques
Rejuvination Aquariums
Seagrass are rejuvinated in special outdoor aquariums
Use Ekoru to Reduce Your CO2 Footprint
Ekoru.org is powered by run-of-river hydro-electricity and housed in a datacenter that uses natural convection cooling instead of air-conditioning. This means that our servers don't generate any CO2 emissions. On top of that we have the smallest search pages which means that when the Internet transports the page to your device it generates the least amount of CO2 as well.
A search on Ekoru generates 4.4g less CO2 than other search engines
Comparison between Google and Ekoru based on combination of one search and a results page for datacenter and transport estimated emissions.
CO2 Emissions For a Search Activity
Search Page Comparison
| # | Search Engine | Power | Size (kb) 1 | Datacenter CO2 (g) 2 | Internet CO2 (g) 3 | Total CO2 (g) 4 | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ekoru | Hydro | 75 | 0 | 0.17 | 0.17 | 0% |
| 2. | Yandex5 | Mixed | 322 | 0.25 | 0.72 | 0.97 | +477% |
| 3. | Duckduckgo | Unknown | 367 | 0.28 | 0.83 | 1.11 | +558% |
| - | Average | - | 468 | 0.35 | 1.05 | 1.40 | +733% |
| 4. | Baidu | Unknown | 504 | 0.39 | 1.13 | 1.52 | +804% |
| 5. | Google6 | Mixed | 728 | 0.56 | 1.64 | 2.20 | +1,205% |
| 6. | Startpage | Unknown | 810 | 0.63 | 1.82 | 2.45 | +1,352% |
Search Results Comparison
| # | Search Engine | Power | Size (kb) 1.1 | Datacenter CO2 (g) 2 | Internet CO2 (g) 3 | Total CO2 (g) 4 | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ekoru | Hydro | 45 | 0 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0% |
| 2. | Yandex5 | Mixed | 401 | 0.31 | 0.90 | 1.21 | +1,109% |
| 3. | Baidu | Unknown | 443 | 0.34 | 1.00 | 1.34 | +1,236% |
| - | Average | - | 458 | 0.35 | 1.03 | 1.38 | +1,276% |
| 4. | Startpage | Unknown | 482 | 0.37 | 1.08 | 1.45 | +1,353% |
| 5. | Duckduckgo | Unknown | 563 | 0.44 | 1.27 | 1.71 | +1,598% |
| 6. | Google6 | Mixed | 815 | 0.63 | 1.83 | 2.46 | +2,357% |
Ocean Fast Facts
Ocean seagrass capture carbon up to 40 times faster than rainforest trees
ABC Australia ScienceOne hectare of seagrass stores the same amount of carbon as 10 hectare of trees
Smithsonian MagazineTwo football fields of ocean seagrass are lost every hour
Åbo Akademi University1.56 billion masks entered our ocean in 2020
Oceans AsiaPlastic flowing into the ocean will triple by 2040
National Geographic150 million tonnes of plastic in our oceans, increasing by 8 million tonnes per year
Ocean Conservancy5 garbage patches exist in our ocean and the Pacific Ocean patch is estimated to weigh 87,000 tons
PBS
1 Desktop search landing page in Kb transferred with compression and without cache measured using browser inspector developer tools as of February 2021. Numbers may fluctuate slightly due to dynamic nature of content.
1.1 Desktop search results page containing text links only, in Kb transferred with compression and without cache measured using browser inspector developer tools as of February 2021. Numbers may fluctuate slightly due to dynamic nature of content.
2 CO2 emissions of 0.000388g per kilobyte from a 1200KWh server (Tech Republic: Calculating server power usage) processing 0.5Tb of data per month and calculated with US Energy Information Administration CO2 per KWh
3 CO2 emissions of 2.25Kg per gigabyte or 0.00225g per kilobyte for Internet data transport as measured by ACEEE for KWh cost of Internet transport and US Energy Information Administration CO2 per KWh
4 The total combines the CO2 cost of the server in the datacenter with the cost of transporting the page to the user.
5 Only Finland datacentre uses renewable energy
6 Datacenters with mixed power sources or carbon offset programmes are still included in the total as it is not possible to segment mixed power and even if carbon is offset it is still emitted into the atmosphere.
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