Shubhendu Sharma: An engineer's vision for tiny forests, everywhere
Shubhendu Sharma: Come piantare una piccola foresta ovunque
Shubhendu Sharma creates afforestation methods that make it easy to plant maintenance-free, wild and biodiverse forests. Full bio
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è sempre stato creare
e con minime risorse.
era realizzare auto,
il Dr. Akira Miyawaki,
per piantarci una foresta
a impatto zero.
come volontario.
è 100 volte superiore.
cresceva nel giardino sul retro
che notavo in quell'area
a raccogliere frutta di stagione
della nostra casa.
con cui realizzavo le automobili
qualsiasi altra attività convenzionale,
di foreste naturali autoctone.
un trend diffuso
dovevo standardizzare
di forestazione.
è l'"heijunka",
con gli alberi
foreste stratificate.
lo spazio verticale al 100 per cento.
una foresta di 300 alberi
per sei macchine.
e la nostra impronta ambientale,
la biomassa locale
di noci di cocco schiacciati
con concime biologico
nel suolo dove
o la paglia di riso
per l'irrigazione
con i dipendenti.
su una piattaforma online
passo per passo
la crescita della foresta
bring back our native forests.
le foreste originali.
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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