More Free Wireless Internet – In the Amazon!

“CNN reports today”:http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/03/30/amazon.internet.ap/index.html that Brazil is looking to use a satellite to project an internet signal to over 150 communities deep in the Amazon, many of which are accessible only by boat. Brazil intends to crack down on illegal logging in the Amazon by creating the opportunity for communities to report such activities via the internet. What a progressive way to address an environmental hazard that results in the “destruction of hundreds of square miles of rainforest”:http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html each year.