Shubhendu Sharma: How to grow a forest in your backyard
休汉度.莎玛: 如何在后院种出一片森林
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.
of my own house.
of these forests professionally.
where animals live together.
只有动物住在一起的孤立的地方
of our urban existence.
that you just can't walk into it.
how big or small they are.
we live in today was forest.
大部分地方都曾经是森林
on those forests,
to nature as well,
也跟地球上的其他840万物种一样,
other species on the planet.
our natural habitat.
大自然栖息地
these forests professionally --
natural resources into products.
out of a rubber tree,
become a natural resource again.
变成自然资源了
into an irreversible state.
works in a totally opposite way.
by bringing elements together,
原子的聚集,来创造物质
become a natural resource again.
都能再变成自然资源
种出一片森林的时候
in the backyard of my own house.
I worked with nature,
in 25 cities across the world.
种植了75片森林
needed to make a forest
these elements together
it becomes compact --
它就会紧凑
available around,
当地能找到的生物质
the capacity to hold water,
like peat or bigas,
这样的吸水物质
and it stays moist.
sunlight and nutrition.
any nutrition in it?
directly to the soil.
in the soil naturally.
we have mixed in the soil,
is eat and multiply.
tree species of the place.
before human intervention is native.
就是当地的物种
of a natural forest.
existing there a long time ago.
或者种子是什么
poems and literature from the place,
诗歌和文学作品中寻找痕迹
belonging there.
tree layer and canopy layer.
of each tree species in the mix.
在总体中所占的比例
of fruit-bearing trees.
a lot of birds or bees,
wild evergreen forest.
本地野生常绿林
and germinate saplings out of them.
让它们长成幼苗
belonging to the same layer
vertical space when they grow tall.
同一个高度上的空间
a thick layer of mulch,
复盖上厚厚一层护盖物
the soil stays moist.
土壤也能保持湿润
while it's freezing outside.
土壤仍能透气
can penetrate into it easily,
seem like it's growing,
throughout this network of roots.
错综複杂的根部网路中
in the vicinity of a tree,
the nutrition to the tree.
has a healthy fungal network.
we water the forest.
主要任务就是灌溉
and soil nutrition only for our trees,
得到所有的养料和水分
growing on the ground.
it blocks the sunlight.
the ground anymore.
because they need sunlight as well.
that falls into the forest
into the atmosphere.
stop watering the forest.
最终停止浇灌
and sometimes even dark.
甚至肥沃
falls on this forest floor,
can grow still bigger.
growing exponentially.
themselves again and again --
a 100-year-old forest
种出一片百岁森林的办法
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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