Shubhendu Sharma: An engineer's vision for tiny forests, everywhere
Shubhendu Sharma: Hur en liten skog kan planteras var som helst
Shubhendu Sharma creates afforestation methods that make it easy to plant maintenance-free, wild and biodiverse forests. Full bio
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och med allt färre resurser.
för att plantera en skog där,
fabriken koldioxidneutral.
lära mig denna metod
biologisk mångfald.
som jag kunde se i området
frukter som var i säsong
fler skogar av detta slag.
att jag ville plantera dessa skogar
eller driver vanliga verksamheter,
till en vanlig verksamhet eller industri
själva processen för skogsplantering.
sin kvalitet och effektivitet,
ligger i heijunka,
skogar med flera skikt.
ett 100 procent vertikalt utrymme.
inte ens kan gå i dem.
en skog med 300 träd
som sex parkeringsplatser.
och våra egna koldioxidutsläpp
kokosnötsskal som krossats
som blandats med organisk gödsel.
som skogen planteras på.
använder vi gräs- eller rishalm
som används vid bevattning
som kostnaden för en iPhone.
tillsammans med företagen.
en internetbaserad plattform
dela med oss av vår metod
alla inhemska arter där de bor.
ett litet mätinstrument på plats
bring back our native forests.
kan vi återskapa våra skogar.
en potentiell skog.
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