Shubhendu Sharma: How to grow a forest in your backyard
Shubhendu Sharma: Jak si vypěstovat les na své zahradě
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.
jsou dva roky staré.
of my own house.
of these forests professionally.
takovýchto lesů.
where animals live together.
kde žijí zvířata.
of our urban existence.
našich životů ve městech.
that you just can't walk into it.
že nedokážete jen tak projít skrz.
how big or small they are.
we live in today was forest.
byla dříve les.
on those forests,
namísto těchto lesů,
to nature as well,
také součástí přírody,
other species on the planet.
dalších druhů na planetě.
our natural habitat.
přestalo být přirozeným.
these forests professionally --
vytvářením těchto lesů --
natural resources into products.
přírodní zdroj na produkt.
out of a rubber tree,
mízu z kaučukovníku,
become a natural resource again.
znovu nestane přírodním zdrojem.
into an irreversible state.
že je to nevratné.
works in a totally opposite way.
funguje úplně obráceně.
by bringing elements together,
become a natural resource again.
se stávají opět přírodními zdroji.
in the backyard of my own house.
na své zahradě.
I worked with nature,
spolupracoval s přírodou,
in 25 cities across the world.
v 25 městech po celém světě.
needed to make a forest
abychom vypěstovali les,
these elements together
je spojit jednotlivé prvky
it becomes compact --
stává se pevnou --
nemůže vsáknout voda.
available around,
kterou najdeme kolem,
the capacity to hold water,
kapacitu na udržení vody,
like peat or bigas,
jako třeba rašelinu nebo rýži,
and it stays moist.
udržet a zůstala vlhká.
sunlight and nutrition.
sluneční světlo a živiny.
any nutrition in it?
directly to the soil.
živiny přímo do země.
in the soil naturally.
we have mixed in the soil,
jsme do půdy přidali,
is eat and multiply.
je jíst a množit se.
tree species of the place.
stromy jsou původní.
before human intervention is native.
člověka, je původní.
of a natural forest.
části původního lesa.
existing there a long time ago.
které tam byly před dávnými dobami.
poems and literature from the place,
a literaturu z daného místa,
belonging there.
stromů, které tam patří.
tree layer and canopy layer.
stromové a klenbové patro.
of each tree species in the mix.
jednotlivé druhy stromů.
of fruit-bearing trees.
nesoucích ovoce.
a lot of birds or bees,
ptáky a včely,
wild evergreen forest.
původní neudržovaný jehličnatý les.
and germinate saplings out of them.
a klíčíme z nich sazenice.
belonging to the same layer
patřící do stejné vrstvy
vertical space when they grow tall.
mezi sebou o místo, až vyrostou.
a thick layer of mulch,
tlustou vrstvu mulče,
the soil stays moist.
půda zůstává vlhká.
while it's freezing outside.
i když venku mrzne.
can penetrate into it easily,
zavrtávají jednoduše
seem like it's growing,
že by les rostl,
throughout this network of roots.
žijí mikroby a houby
in the vicinity of a tree,
není dostupná nějaká živina,
the nutrition to the tree.
has a healthy fungal network.
má zdravou houbovou síť.
we water the forest.
and soil nutrition only for our trees,
a živiny zůstaly jen stromům,
growing on the ground.
it blocks the sunlight.
zastiňuje slunce.
the ground anymore.
because they need sunlight as well.
protože také potřebuje sluneční svit.
that falls into the forest
into the atmosphere.
stop watering the forest.
and sometimes even dark.
falls on this forest floor,
can grow still bigger.
takže les se stále zvětšuje.
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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