Continually making progress is one of our core values and so we aim to learn from our mistakes. The whole team should be actively working towards recognising their own unconscious biases, and we should be filling gaps in our understanding when it comes to issues of race, class, educational background, age, gender, sexuality and disability.
We are also committed to making Unifrog a fully inclusive place to work. Wherever we fall short of this goal - and currently we have work to do - we prioritise fixing it.Īctions we are taking at the moment and on an ongoing basis include reviewing our recruitment strategies with the aim of increasing diversity, offering resources and training to help our team educate themselves and limit unconscious biases, offering work experience to students from underrepresented backgrounds, and creating relevant content for students and teachers to use on our platform. We work with thousands of schools around the world and it’s our responsibility to make sure our team is as diverse as our community of teachers and students. Search on (via Ecosia) and keep your eye on the iBec blog and social media for more tips, habits, ideas and products to create a wave of change for good.At Unifrog we believe it is crucial to have a truly diverse team. It’s easy to plant trees, but it’s very difficult to make sure they stay standing.Įasy way to become a more conscientious user of the planet+internet: set your default search engine to Ecosia and feel good about how you search.
Where and how we plant trees matters (for more check out this podcast.) Beyond that, we need to look at what behaviors are causing deforestation. At a time when clear cutting and burning of our rainforests is accelerating, we need to strategically reforest the planet as quickly as possible. Like a modern day Lorax, Ecosia is speaking for trees which not only give us clean air to breathe, but also sequester carbon from the warming atmosphere, filter our water, protect our soil’s health, and provide habitats for birds and insects. This alone isn’t an end all be all solution to capturing carbon but it’s a start. At the time of writing this, Ecosia has planted 118 MILLION trees.
According to Ecosia’s estimates my switch to searching here first has led to the planting of 194 trees! If even a few of you reading this switch to Ecosia we will plant thousands of trees together in 2021 without spending any money or inconveniencing our lives.Ĭlimate experts predict that humans currently need a net gain of 15 trillion trees to offset and reverse the impact of increased carbon in our atmosphere, so every new tree planted counts towards the massive deficit. To date I’ve made almost 9,000 searches via Ecosia and anytime they don’t find what I needed, I hop over to Google for a second search. To put together trend analysis reports, SEO recommendations, and to research our clients’ competitors, I spend a lot of time searching. The results are 90% as good as Google’s so for your next search, start here. The self proclaimed “search engine that plants trees” runs on Microsoft/Bing’s search algorithm and software. We believe that there’s always room to improve the conscientiousness of our actions, and that all of us sharing ideas and working together can start a wave off change for good.Įnter Ecosia. As part of becoming a B-Corp, we’re examining how our company culture can help have a stronger impact on the environment and social causes.
ECOSIA CAREERS SERIES
While we wait, iBec’s new Social Responsibility team will be presenting you with a series of little tiny things we can start doing, right now, that will have a big impact on our lovely planet. Many of us look on waiting on the government or big business or a hero to do something HUGE to combat climate change. The awkward climate silence includes a healthy dose of not knowing what an individual can do to make an impact, so it’s normal (and maybe healthy) to tune out bad news and go about your day. When you start talking about climate change, people often get quiet.
0 kommentar(er)
