Web Browser Gives Back to Green Causes

jplatt — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:00:00 -0400

More than 50% of web surfers today use a version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Another 40% use Mozilla Firefox. But did you know that there are other alternatives -- and that one of them is greener than all the rest?

Flock Eco is a green-minded version of the new Flock web browser. Like its base edition, Flock Eco is billed as a "social web browser." Instead of having a traditional "home page," the Flock browser pulls in content from your friends and your favorite news sites. You can use it to automatically follow people on Fickr, Twitter and Facebook, and to get the RSS feeds you want.

The Flock Eco version is perfectly built for greenies like you and me. It comes with feeds from Grist, Treehugger, Planetgreen and others built right in. The browser is like a one-stop-shop for environmental news and content. It also comes with tools for green blogging.

Plus, Flock Eco has a built-in search engine (powered by Yahoo), and Flock gives back 10% of its proceeds from every search to environmental causes -- causes which will be chosed each year by its users.

Flock is free, and a worthy alternative to something that you use all the time anyway.

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Web Browser Gives Back to Green Causes