Shubhendu Sharma: An engineer's vision for tiny forests, everywhere
Shubhendu Sharma: Como fazer crescer uma pequena floresta em qualquer local
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 de recursos.
para criar nela uma floresta,
esta floresta no nosso quintal,
que eu detetava nesta área
com estes resultados
com que fazemos carros
ou fazemos quaisquer negócios,
nativas naturais.
o processo de fazer florestas.
o Sistema de Produção Toyota [SPT]
florestas de várias camadas.
100% de espaço vertical.
uma floresta de 300 árvores
o estacionamento de 6 automóveis.
a nossa pegada de carbono,
trituradas numa máquina
misturadas com estrume orgânico
ervas ou palha de arroz
como o custo de um iPhone.
florestas em casas,
em conjunto com as empresas.
pelas suas próprias mãos.
numa plataforma com base na Internet
nativas do seu local.
"hardware" de controlo no local,
o crescimento dessa floresta
bring back our native forests.
as nossas florestas nativas.
uma floresta potencial.
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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