Shubhendu Sharma: An engineer's vision for tiny forests, everywhere
Shubhendu Sharma: Cómo plantar un pequeño bosque donde sea.
Shubhendu Sharma creates afforestation methods that make it easy to plant maintenance-free, wild and biodiverse forests. Full bio
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siempre ha sido hacer
de tiempo y de recursos.
un bosque dentro de ella
neutral de carbono.
plantaciones convencionales,
este bosque en mi patio trasero,
se había duplicado.
frutas de temporada
de nuestra propia casa.
que quería crear estos bosques
con la que hacía autos,
un negocio importante
necesitamos estandarizar
de producción de Toyota,
se basa en heijunka,
crear bosques de varias capas.
el 100% del espacio vertical.
un bosque de 300 árboles
un estacionamiento de 6 autos.
propia marca de carbón,
trituradas en una máquina
con estiércol orgánico
usamos pasto o paja de arroz
el costo de un iPhone
bosques en casas,
fábricas empresariales.
con sus propias manos.
en una plataforma de internet
dar instrucciones paso a paso
bring back our native forests.
recuperar nuestros bosques.
un bosque en potencia.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Shubhendu Sharma - Eco-entrepreneurShubhendu Sharma creates afforestation methods that make it easy to plant maintenance-free, wild and biodiverse forests.
Why you should listen
Industrial engineer Shubhendu Sharma was working at Toyota in India when he met Japanese forest expert Akira Miyawaki, who'd arrived to plant a forest at the factory, using a methodology he'd developed to make a forest grow ten times faster that normal. Fascinated, Sharma interned with Miyawaki, and grew his first successful forest on a small plot behind a house.
Today, his company Afforestt promotes a standardized method for seeding dense, fast-growing, native forests in barren lands, using his car-manufacturing acumen to create a system allowing a multilayer forest of 300 trees to grow on an area as small as the parking spaces of six cars -- for less than the price of an iPhone. Afforestt has helped grow forests at homes, schools and factories. Sharma seen improvement in air quality, an increase in biodiversity -- and the forests even generate fresh fruit. Afforestt is at work on a platform that will offer hardware probes to analyze soil quality, allowing the company to offer step-by-step instructions for anyone who wants to grow a native forest anywhere in the world.
Shubhendu Sharma | Speaker | TED.com