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Image: Rain forest Connection founder places a device in a tree that uses an old cellphone to detect illegal logging

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Old Cellphones: The Key to Stopping Climate Change

Deforestation causes more emissions than all of the cars and trucks on our planet combined, so what can we do to stop it? Could the unlikely hero in this story be the old cell phone tucked away in your junk drawer? It is! Read on and you’ll see problem-solving at its best!

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Saving the Rainforest with Old Cell Phones

By Liesl Ulrich-Verderber

How can we police large swaths of endangered rainforest with something we all have at home? The incredible startup Rainforest Connection is taking our old cell phones and giving them a second life as protectors of some of the most at-risk habitat on the planet!

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Your work feeds me and is as valuable to me as my first cup of coffee.

~ Martha, USA

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Dr. Lynda’s Articles About Amazing Social Change!

By Dr. Lynda

Experience a collection of Dr. Lynda’s favorite EWC articles—some she’s written herself and others she just loves! After this tour of possibility, you won’t be able to stop seeing it everywhere you go.