Shubhendu Sharma: How to grow a forest in your backyard
Shubhendu Sharma: Kako uzgojiti šumu u dvorištu
Shubhendu Sharma creates afforestation methods that make it easy to plant maintenance-free, wild and biodiverse forests. Full bio
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and acres of area,
is just two years old.
of my own house.
iz Disneyjevog crtića.
of these forests professionally.
drugima da zasade takve šume.
where animals live together.
gdje zajedno žive životinje.
of our urban existence.
sastavni dio gradskog života.
that you just can't walk into it.
da ne možete njime hodati.
how big or small they are.
we live in today was forest.
nekad je bio prekriven šumom.
umiješali ljudi.
on those forests,
sagradili gradove,
to nature as well,
da smo i mi dio prirode,
other species on the planet.
drugih vrsta na našem planetu.
our natural habitat.
u svom prirodnom staništu.
these forests professionally --
sadnjom ovakvih šuma profesionalno.
natural resources into products.
prirodne resurse u proizvode.
out of a rubber tree,
konačni proizvod.
become a natural resource again.
postati prirodni resurs.
into an irreversible state.
iz kojeg više nema povratka.
works in a totally opposite way.
by bringing elements together,
spaja elemente,
become a natural resource again.
opet postaje prirodni resurs.
in the backyard of my own house.
u dvorištu iza svoje kuće.
I worked with nature,
surađivao s prirodom,
in 25 cities across the world.
u 25 gradova diljem svijeta.
na nekom novom mjestu
needed to make a forest
koji su potrebni da nastane šuma
these elements together
sve te elemente
pa čak i kušamo
koja joj svojstva nedostaju.
it becomes compact --
postaje kompaktno,
available around,
koji je dostupan u tom kraju
the capacity to hold water,
like peat or bigas,
koji dobro upijaju vodu,
and it stays moist.
i ostati vlažno.
sunlight and nutrition.
Sunčeva svjetlost i hranjive tvari.
any nutrition in it?
directly to the soil.
in the soil naturally.
hranjive tvari u tlu.
we have mixed in the soil,
koji smo pomiješali sa zemljom,
is eat and multiply.
tree species of the place.
vrste drveća na tom području.
before human intervention is native.
prije ljudske intervencije.
of a natural forest.
existing there a long time ago.
drveća koje je ondje davno raslo.
poems and literature from the place,
i literaturu iz tog kraja
belonging there.
vrste drveća koje ondje rastu.
tree layer and canopy layer.
šumski sloj i izdignuti sloj.
pojedinog sloja
of each tree species in the mix.
svake vrste drveća.
prevladavati voćke,
of fruit-bearing trees.
a lot of birds or bees,
wild evergreen forest.
koja inače raste na tom području.
and germinate saplings out of them.
i iz njih dobivamo sadnice.
belonging to the same layer
koje pripada istom sloju
vertical space when they grow tall.
kad počnu rasti u visinu.
a thick layer of mulch,
debelim slojem malča
the soil stays moist.
kad je vani vruće.
while it's freezing outside.
iako je vani ispod nule.
can penetrate into it easily,
može lako probiti,
seem like it's growing,
od jednog metra.
throughout this network of roots.
tu mrežu korijenja.
in the vicinity of a tree,
neke hranjive tvari,
the nutrition to the tree.
da ih drvo dobije.
has a healthy fungal network.
čitava mreža gljiva.
we water the forest.
and soil nutrition only for our trees,
svu vodu i hranjive tvari,
growing on the ground.
it blocks the sunlight.
tako ona sve više zaklanja Sunce.
the ground anymore.
više prodrijeti do tla.
because they need sunlight as well.
jer i njemu treba Sunčeva svjetlost.
that falls into the forest
into the atmosphere.
stop watering the forest.
i na koncu je prestanemo navodnjavati.
and sometimes even dark.
postane i tamno.
falls on this forest floor,
can grow still bigger.
mogla napredovati.
growing exponentially.
themselves again and again --
a 100-year-old forest
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.
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