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Hub Culture presents: The Chronicle Discussions: The Power of Listening with Topher White, Founder and Executive Chair of Rainforest Connection (RFCx), and Tim Degraye, Founder of Unity Headphones. Stan Stalnaker and Tate Chamberlin host live from the Future Mobility Hub during COP28 in Dubai. Presented by Hub Culture, in sync with Hatch A Better World.

Hub Culture presents: The Chronicle Discussions, Episode 90: The Power of Listening with Topher White, Founder and Executive Chair of Rainforest Connection (RFCx), and Tim Degraye, Founder of Unity Headphones. Stan Stalnaker and Tate Chamberlin host live from the Future Mobility Hub during COP28 in Dubai. Presented by Hub Culture, in sync with Hatch A Better World. Produced by: New Angel Productions

Topher White uses technology to detect illegal logging in rainforests. You might have seen stories about how he repurposed old cellphones and powered them with solar panels to listen remotely in the forests. While collecting this audio data, he uses AI tools to identify the specific sounds of chainsaws and trucks to send alerts to local officials.His organization, Rainforest Connection, has been successful in reducing illegal logging in protected areas. Now he has a new project underway, called "Delta." This new tool is geared towards home users. They can deploy it in their backyards or on camping trips and other outdoor excursions. Delta can collect sounds and help users learn more about the local wildlife around them and even build stories about the animals over time.In this podcast, we'll discuss the evolution of the Rainforest Connection, their first innovative tool (known as "The Guardian"), and the details of their newest tool, Delta. This new product will become available through a Kickstarter campaign starting on June 20, 2023.

This chat with conservation innovator Topher White will give you a feeling of celebration and wonder. In 2013, he created the ingenious Rainforest Connection, a nonprofit which is helping to preserve biodiversity in 34 countries and counting. And now, he is launching another pioneering technology! But this time, it's one we can all bring to our own backyards, neighborhoods, and even on vacation. All of that, in the service of making a personal connection with the natural world around us, in fascinating and delightful ways.   00:00 Preview 00:54 Intro & Welcome 02:02Topher's Bio Topher is a conservation technologist & founder of Rainforest Connection (RFCx). His new project launched in 2022, Squibbon, is a product that allows us to connect with our environment by listening. His accolades include: National Geographic Explorer Rolex Laureate World Economic Forum Young Global Leader 04:42 Topher as an innovator “The day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea” -  Peter H. Diamandis Many of the best ideas in the best space sound bad at first. Getting to the point that something actually works or is executed is a long journey. Best ideas are in high competition spaces. 05:49 High Rainforest Connection The idea originated from listening in rainforests. There's a lot of sounds originating in the rainforests outside of just animals. The lives and expressions of animals and the way they interact with each other provides rich data. New tools and approached were adopted to use bio acoustics to understand entire ecosystems. Tune into Episode 124 with Rainforest Connection (RFCx) CEO Bourhan Yassin for more on the work being done to connect rainforests in the world. You can listen to the vibrant and amazing sounds of the rainforests via the Rainforest Connection App, available for download in the app stores. Listening to the sounds of nature may be the best but least utilized tool to protect the environment. 07:07 The Squibbon Journey Squibbon is designed to bring the sounds of nature to the consumer market and make what was previously only available for conservationists available to any household. People typically think of the sounds of nature as serenity and relaxation but there's much more insights available that can matter to the average person's everyday life. Humans usually interact with nature primarily visually, but now Squibbon offers the opportunity to interact audibly and add much more interaction as hidden creatures & tiny creatures that we may not be able to see can become part of the experience with nature. Human listening is also limited and Squibbon will unlock more sounds that will give much more insights into nature e.g. Prey vs Predator How animals feel Animal movement How animals interact with each other 11:58 Nature isn't some place we have to go to It's great for us to enjoy when nature overlaps with us. Wildlife is already part of our day to day lives and we may not notice them while they notice us. The only real conservation is local conservation. Top down approaches to conservation are still dependent on people who are on the ground committed to preservation. Conservation of the environment in your backyard may be more powerful than conservation efforts at the Government, State or Corporate level. Lives can also be enriched by deeper interaction with and conservation of local environments and neighbourhoods. 14:50 Break ...

Hub Culture presents: The Chronicle Discussions, Episode 81: Live from COP27 - New Narratives Stan Stalnaker of Hub Culture in conversation with J. Carl Ganter, Co-Founder and Director of Circle of Blue, and Topher White, Founder and Executive Chair of Rainforest Connection. Live from the Hub Culture Climate Pavilion at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Produced by: New Angel Productions

Guest:Topher White Founder Rainforest Connection Rainforest Connection (RFCx) builds and deploys scalable, open acoustic monitoring systems that can halt illegal logging and poaching and can enable biodiversity measurement and monitoring. Lester Kiewit speaks to Topher White, Founder of Rainforest connection.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sarah Collard reports on the issued that Indigenous Australians would like to see debated, Topher White explains how recycled phones are helping save rainforests and Ira Rutkow on the surprising history of surgery.

Conservation technologist Topher White is re-purposing old mobile phones to defend the world's rainforests from illegal logging and to monitor the sounds of important species of birds and animals.

In honor of Earth Day, host Barry Ross revisits conversations with innovative executives and individuals who are using technology as a tool to better our planet. Guests include Topher White, founder of Rainforest Connection, an organization dedicated to combating illegal logging and deforestation; Atmosic Technologies founder and CEO David Su, who explains how energy harvesting could reduce electronic waste; and Alaka'i Technologies co-founder Brian Morrison and BMW Group Designworks' Peter Falt, who are pioneering electronic vertical takeoff and landing (EVTOL) aircraft that could reduce carbon emissions and transform the way we travel.

What happens when a tree falls in a forest and no one is listening? The sound starts with truck engines and chainsaws and ends with a small piece of forest being silenced. Illegal logging is slowly thinning out the world's forests, paving the way for widespread deforestation. With limited resources and difficult terrain, it's a hard problem to tackle. National Geographic Explorer Topher White—who considers himself a war photographer for climate change—has found that by listening for the sounds of logging through hundreds of recycled cell phones nailed high in treetops from Indonesia to Eastern Europe, the stewards of the world's trees might have a chance to detect and prevent illegal logging. For more information on this episode, visit nationalgeographic.com/overheard. Want More: Check out this article to learn more about how illegal lumber makes its way into the global supply chain. National Geographic has detailed explanations of both gibbons and deforestation.  Take a look at this project to use waste from coffee production to help renew destroyed forests.  Also Explore: Take a look at the last known footage of a Tasmanian Tiger. To learn more about Topher White and the Rainforest Connection, take a look at their website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Accounting for roughly one-fifth of carbon emissions produced each year, deforestation in places like Africa, Asia and South America is one of the main contributors to climate change. On this episode of The Big REthink, Topher White, conservation technologist and founder of Rainforest Connection, joins host Brian Rowley to explain how his organization is using technology to stop illegal logging and poaching right at the site. He also details the challenges of designing devices that can withstand rainforest conditions, and the expanding role AI will play in future conservation efforts.

“This is an incredibly exciting time to be part of the field of bioacoustics,” our guest on this episode says, and she's so right: if you care about wildlife conservation, or really like technology and interesting solutions to big challenges, this episode is for you. Laurel Symes is assistant director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's bioacoustics lab, which was founded in the 1980s to study whale songs and elephant rumbles, and it just received a massive $24 million gift and changed its name to the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics.  The Cornell program is therefore about to expand this field in many ways, from technology development to implementation, so we discuss their plans and the implications with this repeat guest, who previously joined the show to discuss her own fascinating work on the soundscapes of rainforests (episode 86). Many bioacoustics researchers like her have been featured by this show, so after discussing Laurel's exciting news, we feature some of our most popular acoustic ecology segments: get ready for an absorbing crash course on what people are learning about animal behavior and ecosystem health with these increasingly affordable and ubiquitous listening devices! If you want to hear any of the episodes featured in full, look up the episode numbers listed here in your podcast app of choice, or click its link to hear it via the Mongabay website: Elephant Listening Project, episode 95 Indri lemur choruses, episode 107 Gibbon songs, episode 82 Humpback whales sharing songs, episode 77 Right whales discovered singing for the 1st time, episode 72 Rainforest frogs, episode 54 Please invite your friends to subscribe to the Mongabay Newscast wherever they get podcasts, or download our free app in the Apple App Store or in the Google Store to have access to our latest episodes at your fingertips. If you enjoy the Newscast, please visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep the show growing, Mongabay is a nonprofit media outlet and all support helps! See all our latest news from nature's frontline at Mongabay's homepage: news.mongabay.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching for @mongabay. Episode artwork: Topher White of Rainforest Connection installing a bioacoustics device in the forest canopy. Image by Ben Von Wong.   Please share your thoughts and ideas! submissions@mongabay.com.

I sit down with Topher White and to talk about his efforts to reduce and stop the illegal harvesting of trees in the rain forest. Topher is credited with inventing a device that uses old cell phones to listen for the sounds of chainsaws in protected rainforests around the world. You can follow Topher on twitter and be sure to check out his TED talk and website. links down below. Rainforest Connection https://www.rfcx.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAst2BBhDJARIsAGo2ldVnWOKrLBVjXzSfOs2mCSViyA7gYV_1AxgwTqg6KdGNQ5_pAB6K2AsaAlFqEALw_wcB TED Talk https://youtu.be/xPK2Ch90xWo --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/david-eubanks2/message

Topher White founded the nonprofit Rainforest Connection with the intent of creating a low-cost monitor that could help remote communities in their efforts to halt illegal logging, which is an enormous threat to tropical habitats. As it turns out, the best way to track people who are cutting down trees is sound. Using old cell phones linked to an artificial-intelligence platform in the cloud, White developed a system that can detect chainsaws in real time and send automated alerts to authorities. Today, Rainforest Connection is recording audio continuously from over a 1,000-square-miles of forest across 12 countries. That scale, along with rapid improvements in machine learning, have opened up tantalizing possibilities for understanding what the sounds of nature really mean.

How do we stop deforestation in remote areas of the world? Hear what Topher White, Founder and CEO of Rainforest Connection has to say. Deforestation accounts for 17% of all global carbon emissions and wreaks havoc throughout the entire planet’s ecosystem. Topher White has created a simple, yet incredibly effective way, of stopping the people responsible for illegal logging in their tracks. If you would like to donate, volunteer, or learn more, visit rfcx.org. If you enjoyed our episode please make sure to subscribe and leave us a review. If you want to nominate a social impact leader who is finding scalable sustainable solutions for world pressing problems, please reach out to us at guest@gettingtherepodcast.com. To access more stories, blog posts, videos, quizzes (and more!), highlighting leaders tackling humanity's biggest problems, follow us on: LinkedIn | Medium | Website | Facebook | Instagram --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gettingtherepodcast1/message

Topher White speaks about defending the rainforest and Derek Riedle speaks about changing the face of cannabis culture.

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On this episode we take a look at the role technology plays in conservation efforts. First we speak with Topher White of Rainforest Connection, which deploys used cell phones in tropical forests around the world to provide real-time monitoring of forests and wildlife. Its network alerts local communities when illegal logging activities are taking place and can then be stopped, for example. Then we speak with Matthew Putman, he's the CEO of Nanotronics and an applied physicist with a keen interest in conservation. We discuss some of the technologies that he sees making the biggest contributions to the way we approach conservation, and why he believes these advances can help turn the tide against environmental degradation. Plus we round up the past weeks' top news. Please help us improve the Mongabay Newscast by leaving a review on its page at Android, Google Play, iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, or wherever you subscribe to it. Thanks, and we also hope you will tell a friend about this podcast!

Topher White is an engineer with a background in physics and kinetic sculptor. Little did he know that visiting the rainforest as a tourist would spark an idea as to how to help save it. Since 2013 Topher has been working around the clock designing a device out of used cell phones to thwart deforestation in real time. This interview offers a TON of great tips for anyone in tech or science looking to contribute to real world problems and for entrepreneurs in general.

Minter Dialogue Episode #136 — This interview is with Topher White, founder and CEO of Rainforest Connection, a not-for-profit initiative that uses entrepreneurial flair and technological know-how to help stop deforestation. Topher recently made a rousing speech at TEDxCern and was a laureate at the Netexplo 2015 Forum. A man on a mission to track down illegal tree loggers, Topher has installed his system in rainforests across three continents. A fascinating story. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on myndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. And, if you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)