Shubhendu Sharma: How to grow a forest in your backyard
Shubhendu Sharma: Hvordan dyrke en skog i hagen din
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,
hektar på hektar med jord,
is just two years old.
bare to år gammel.
of my own house.
of these forests professionally.
profesjonelt skape disse skogene.
where animals live together.
dyr lever sammen.
of our urban existence.
urbane eksistens.
that you just can't walk into it.
bare ikke kan gå inn i det.
how big or small they are.
hvor store eller små de er.
we live in today was forest.
vi lever i i dag var skog.
on those forests,
to nature as well,
other species on the planet.
være vårt naturlige habitat.
our natural habitat.
disse skogene
these forests professionally --
natural resources into products.
om til produkter.
out of a rubber tree,
become a natural resource again.
bli en naturressurs.
into an irreversible state.
til en irreversibel tilstand.
works in a totally opposite way.
jobber på totalt motsatt måte.
by bringing elements together,
bringe elementer sammen,
become a natural resource again.
en naturressurs igjen.
in the backyard of my own house.
I worked with nature,
jeg jobbet med naturen,
in 25 cities across the world.
over hele verden.
needed to make a forest
trengs for å lage en skog
these elements together
elementene sammen
til og med smaker på det
mangler.
it becomes compact --
den veldig kompakt --
available around,
som er lett tilgjengelig,
jord til å bli mer porøs.
the capacity to hold water,
å holde på vann,
like peat or bigas,
and it stays moist.
på vannet og forbli fuktig.
sunlight and nutrition.
og næringsstoffer.
any nutrition in it?
har noen næringsstoffer? Vi legger -
directly to the soil.
direkte til jorden.
industrielle måten.
vi til mikroorganismer.
in the soil naturally.
i jorden på naturlig vis.
we have mixed in the soil,
vi har blandet inn i jorden,
is eat and multiply.
å spise og formere seg.
tree species of the place.
before human intervention is native.
menneskelige inngrep er innfødt.
of a natural forest.
en naturlig skog.
existing there a long time ago.
som eksisterte der for lenge siden.
poems and literature from the place,
og litteratur fra området,
belonging there.
hører hjemme der. Når
tree layer and canopy layer.
of each tree species in the mix.
treart i blandingen.
of fruit-bearing trees.
a lot of birds or bees,
fugler eller bier,
wild evergreen forest.
innfødt, vill eviggrønn skog.
and germinate saplings out of them.
belonging to the same layer
hører til samme lag ikke
vertical space when they grow tall.
vertikale plass når de vokser seg høye.
a thick layer of mulch,
the soil stays moist.
fuktig når det er varmt ute.
while it's freezing outside.
er kjempekaldt ute.
can penetrate into it easily,
seem like it's growing,
som at skogen vokser,
throughout this network of roots.
over hele rotnettverket.
in the vicinity of a tree,
i nærheten av et tre,
the nutrition to the tree.
få tak i næring til treet.
has a healthy fungal network.
har et sunt nettverk.
vokser fortsetter vi å vanne det -
we water the forest.
vi å vanne skogen.
and soil nutrition only for our trees,
skal gå til trærne,
growing on the ground.
it blocks the sunlight.
stenger den sollyset ute.
the ground anymore.
because they need sunlight as well.
trenger sollys.
that falls into the forest
som faller inn i skogen som
into the atmosphere.
kondenserer den fuktige luften.
stop watering the forest.
gir oss med å vanne skogen.
and sometimes even dark.
ganger til og med mørk.
falls on this forest floor,
can grow still bigger.
fortsette å vokse seg større.
growing exponentially.
fortsetter å vokse eksponensielt.
themselves again and again --
seg igjen og igjen --
a 100-year-old forest
en 100 år gammel 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.
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