Shubhendu Sharma: An engineer's vision for tiny forests, everywhere
Shubhendu Sharma: Comment pousser un petit forêt n'importe où.
Shubhendu Sharma creates afforestation methods that make it easy to plant maintenance-free, wild and biodiverse forests. Full bio
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Dr. Akira Miyawaki.
pour faire un forêt
d'apprendre cette méthodologie
à récolter des fruits de saison
qu'on fabrique les voitures
ou n'importe quelle entreprise.
indigènes et naturels
en une entreprise
la fabrication de forêts
reside dans Heijunka
des modèles différents
des forêts à plusieurs niveaux
tout de l'espace vertical et ils
un forêt de 300 arbres
les places de parking de 6 voitures.
utiliser de la biomasse local
et l'empreinte carbone
des coques de noix de coco
qu'on mélange avec le fumier organique.
de l'herbe ou riz de la balle
on utilise pour l'irrigation
dans les maisons
sur une plate-forme en ligne
donner étape par étape des instructions
la croissance de ce foret
bring back our native forests.
nos forêts indigènes.
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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