Citation:Topher White: What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone. YouTube, uploaded by TED, March 3 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPK2Ch90xWo

Summary: The countermeasure that is being implemented right now to help reduce illegal logging in the rainforest of Borneo, Asia is an IT technology. The intent of the technology to distribute devices through the forests that will be connected to the global network and the local people who are responsible and indifferent to the forest problem. The algorithm will separate natural sounds of forest such as operating machinery, wood-chopping and chainsawing. Once unusual sound is detected, the nearest reaction groups will be notified and the event will be logged on file in police and global organizations. The forest would require a tremendous amount of devices that are able to record, save and transmit audio files. Luckily, the elegant solution was found – only in the US, hundreds of millions of cell phones are thrown away every year! Once the idea and solution was published and wide-spreaded, people from around the world started sending their old devices to Borneo.

Reflection: There is nothing new under the Moon. The TED Talks is a modern edition of ancient Rome forums and is a successful platform for conveying high-order and simple ideas. Thunder white commands respect from the first seconds because you realize this human is spending his life on defending Nature for us.

Quotations: 

  1. “What can save Rainforest? Your old cellphone”
  2. “Use what is already there”

Note: Topher said this because he was surprised with the amazing cellular reception in such a remote rainforest.

  1. “Hundreds of millions of cellphones are thrown away only in the US”.