Shubhendu Sharma: An engineer's vision for tiny forests, everywhere
Shubhhendu Sharma: Ein kleiner Wald kann überall wachsen
Shubhendu Sharma creates afforestation methods that make it easy to plant maintenance-free, wild and biodiverse forests. Full bio
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in möglichst kurzer Zeit
damit sie kohlenstoffneutral wird,
diese Methode zu lernen,
seinem Team anschloss.
nach drei Jahren aus.
die ich zu sehen bekam,
wie wir Autos bauen,
Geschäfte machen, pflanzen wollte.
zum Mainstream-Geschäft zu machen
die Aufforstung standardisieren.
das Toyota-Produktionssystem,
im "Heijunka"-Konzept,
die Vielschichtigkeit des Waldes
nicht einmal spazieren gehen.
aus 300 Bäumen
6 parkenden Autos anlegen.
ökologischen Fußabdruck zu verringern,
Kokosnussschalen in einer Maschine
was zur Bewässerung verwendet wird,
Wälder in Häusern,
gemeinsam mit den Unternehmen an.
internetgestützten Plattform,
schrittweise Anweisungen
der einheimische Wald zurück.
bring back our native forests.
es ist ein potentieller Wald.
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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