Shubhendu Sharma: An engineer's vision for tiny forests, everywhere
Shubhendu Sharma: Como cultivar uma pequena floresta em qualquer lugar
Shubhendu Sharma creates afforestation methods that make it easy to plant maintenance-free, wild and biodiverse forests. Full bio
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de tempo e recursos.
para plantar uma floresta lá dentro
com essa floresta em nosso quintal,
que eu via na área
mais florestas como essa.
com que criamos carros
ou fazemos qualquer negócio convencional.
naturais nativas.
um negócio convencional
nós tivemos que padronizar
o Sistema de Produção da Toyota,
está no heijunka,
florestas de várias camadas.
100% do espaço vertical.
uma floresta de 300 árvores
de seis vagas de carro.
e nossa própria pegada de carbono,
esmagadas numa máquina
misturado com adubo orgânico
usamos grama ou palha de arroz
em fábricas com as empresas.
numa plataforma na Internet
dar instruções passo a passo
o crescimento da floresta
recuperar nossas florestas nativas.
bring back our native forests.
para ser uma floresta.
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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