Shubhendu Sharma: An engineer's vision for tiny forests, everywhere
Šubendu Šarma: Kā jebkur izaudzēt nelielu mežiņu
Shubhendu Sharma creates afforestation methods that make it easy to plant maintenance-free, wild and biodiverse forests. Full bio
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lai tajā ierīkotu mežu,
kā brīvprātīgais.
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vai darām jebko citu biznesa vidē.
par īstu biznesu vai nozari,
kvalitāti un efektivitāti,
— Toyota ražošanas sistēmas —
lai veidotu vairākslāņu mežus.
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izveidot 300 koku lielu mežu
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un mūsu pašu oglekļa pēdu,
kokosriekstu čaumalas,
ar organiskajiem mēsliem
zāles vai rīsa salmus
apūdeņošanas sistēmas,
attālinātu augsnes pārbaudi,
no attāluma sniegt norādes
šī meža augšanai,
bring back our native forests.
mūsu dabiskos mežus.
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