Rainforest Connection Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:46:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Indonesian Rainforests Safer Thanks to Recycled Smartphones https://www.greenoptimistic.com/recycled-smartphones-deter-illegal-logging-of-indonesian-rainforests-20130612/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/recycled-smartphones-deter-illegal-logging-of-indonesian-rainforests-20130612/#respond Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:46:54 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=38342 Using solar-powered smartphones, Topher White, the founder of Rainforest Connection in San Francisco, devised a way to save the Indonesian forests. More than a million hectares of forest a year disappear in Indonesia annually. Indonesia’s rainforest is the third largest in the world and serves as the habitat to many native species of plants and […]

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