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Shubhendu Sharma    

Reforestation Expert & Director, Afforestt; Known for his TED Talk "How to Grow a Tiny Forest Anywhere"

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 Afforest 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. Afforest has helped grow forests at homes, schools and factories. He’s seen improvement in air quality, an increase in biodiversity — and the forests even generate fresh fruit. Afforest 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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The Savviest Tree-Hugger in India | Rising Stars | OZY
Following His Karma - At a time when 36 football fields' worth of forest are destroyed every minute, industrial engineer Shubhendu Sharma followed his calling ...
The man who plants trees: Shubhendu Sharma is reforesting the world, one patch at a time
Swept up in a wave of ideas at TED in Vancouver - The Globe and ...
Reforestation expert Shubhendu Sharma creates dense, but tiny forests – as small as the area six cars take up in a typical parking lot – that improve air quality,  ...
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For a young industrial engineer, Shubhendu Sharma couldn't have landed a gig much sweeter than Toyota. As the originator of “just-in-time production,” Toyota ...

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