{"id":18482,"date":"2015-03-05T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=18482"},"modified":"2015-03-05T12:44:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:44:35","slug":"your-used-cell-phone-can-protect-rainforests-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/your-used-cell-phone-can-protect-rainforests-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Used Cell Phone Can Protect Rainforests [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What did you do with your last used cell phone when you upgraded to a newer model? <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2014\/11\/recycling-computers-phones-televisions-youre-probably\/\">Recycled it<\/a>? Sold it? Threw it away? Unfortunately, that last option still seems to be the preferred method of dealing with our old electronics: despite more and more options for <a href=\"http:\/\/greenlivingideas.com\/2013\/05\/23\/choosing-a-quality-electronics-recycling-company\/\">dealing with our electronic waste responsibly<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/gadgets\/true-impact-not-recycling-your-old-electronics.html\">130 million cell phones<\/a> still end up in the trash each year&#8230; and that&#8217;s just in the US!<\/p>\n<p>A TED talk from last Fall shows another really interesting way to dispose of that phone: donate it for protecting rainforests. Start-up social enterprise <a href=\"https:\/\/rfcx.org\">Rainforest Connection<\/a> takes used smart phones, connects them to a specially designed solar panel array (also made from cast-offs), and then positions in forest land to pick up the sounds of illegal tree harvesting.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this necessary? Can&#8217;t people in sanctuaries just listen? Yes, but as Rainforest Connection founder Topher White demonstrates in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/topher_white_what_can_save_the_rainforest_your_used_cell_phone\">his TEDxCern talk<\/a> above, the forest itself protects these loggers by masking the sounds of their activity. His listening contraption picks them up immediately, and allows for direct confrontation with the loggers. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.flickr.com\/photos\/rainforestcx\/14361735096\/sizes\/l\/\">an infographic created by the organization<\/a>, this represents a vastly improved time frame: satellite detection of illegal logging takes a week&#8230; and, of course, the loggers are long gone by that point. The Rainforest Connection devices a can pick up these sounds within a 1 km radius.<\/p>\n<p>Take a few minutes to listen to his talk, and see the work he and others are doing in the world&#8217;s rainforests. If you know of similar efforts to use readily-available technology, even gadgets headed for the recycling center (or, unfortunately, the landfill), tell us more&#8230; And if you want to send your used smartphone to Rainforest Connection,\u00a0you can find the address <a href=\"https:\/\/rfcx.org\/get_involved\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured image credit:<\/strong> Rainforest Connection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topher White of Rainforest Connections shows how your used cell phone can be used as a sensor to pick up the sounds of illegal loggers at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":18483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[1146,7929,7930,7931,7928],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Used Cell Phone Can Prevent Illegal 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