Shubhendu Sharma: How to grow a tiny forest anywhere

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A forest planted by humans, then left to nature’s own devices, typically takes at least 100 years to mature. But what if we could make the process happen ten times faster? In this short talk, eco-entrepreneur (and TED Fellow) Shubhendu Sharma explains how to create a mini-forest ecosystem anywhere.
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  • @bananabreadyum9663
    @bananabreadyum96633 жыл бұрын

    I am 16 and I will try to make a forrest in my city. Together we can save the planet. Dream big guys!

  • @letstalkfriends2635

    @letstalkfriends2635

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you I am 17 ! I have the same dream !

  • @orange4867

    @orange4867

    2 жыл бұрын

    sorry to burst your bubble kid but the planet isn't dying

  • @pearljantjies2562

    @pearljantjies2562

    2 жыл бұрын

    Love it. Me too. I. M gonna grow a forest

  • @stefanotonelli5190

    @stefanotonelli5190

    2 жыл бұрын

    you can do it!

  • @sumitgpatil

    @sumitgpatil

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@orange4867 Lol...

  • @madmady8278
    @madmady82784 жыл бұрын

    New life goal: buy a large property that was used for animal farming and build a Forrest instead. Swap out cruelty for kindness. Help heal the planet.

  • @sarthakjoshi9824

    @sarthakjoshi9824

    3 жыл бұрын

    Go vegan

  • @madmady8278

    @madmady8278

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sarthakjoshi9824 Already am, 3 years strong!

  • @Anglofilia

    @Anglofilia

    3 жыл бұрын

    My plan for next year :-)

  • @s3nyukt3

    @s3nyukt3

    2 жыл бұрын

    hope you succes

  • @ac4185

    @ac4185

    Ай бұрын

    Vegan won’t do a thing. If humans are increasing in population, it is bigger cities, more social justice warriors on the internet, more processed vegan food using tons of chemicals.

  • @taijifitness
    @taijifitness6 жыл бұрын

    I love the emotion of this guy when he speak about the project feeling the benefit for humanity, here is the difference with Steve jobs that was cold as a machine feeling the benefit for his pockets

  • @upresins

    @upresins

    4 жыл бұрын

    True- he seemed to be restraining himself, checking his emotion, lest it burst.

  • @harishgokul3549

    @harishgokul3549

    3 жыл бұрын

    And now, Apple is sponsoring 3000 acres of forest to offset their carbon footprint. How's that?

  • @srimansrini
    @srimansrini9 жыл бұрын

    Shubendu Sharma gives excellent solution to solve the problem of deforestation. Planting trees and making forests should be made as mass movement. I hope these kind of ideas are very much necessary for everyone to take part in this noble mission. Kudos to Sharma and his team. Highly recommended.

  • @alonespirit_1Q84

    @alonespirit_1Q84

    6 жыл бұрын

    Open School Completely Agreed!!

  • @CitiesoftheFuture

    @CitiesoftheFuture

    6 жыл бұрын

    that was 2014... Who knows what is he doing now? 2018

  • @claudiazacarias3063

    @claudiazacarias3063

    6 жыл бұрын

    Open School im so happy some people care about deforestation. And im willing to make mass movements of forest making.

  • @claudiazacarias3063

    @claudiazacarias3063

    6 жыл бұрын

    RapistAndFalse ProphetMuhammed 100% right

  • @joji5422
    @joji54222 жыл бұрын

    Amazing project to help Mother Earth and us. Thank you so much for all this ideas. I am also starting my own little forest , I already planted 250 seedlings for a biodiverse forest . Different Philippine Native Tree Species.

  • @LMKTinyForest
    @LMKTinyForest3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks to your knowledge, I have planted my tiny forest accordingly. Some of the trees in my 3 year old forest are higher than the one close by which the owner planted only teakwood 10 years ago. Thank you so much.

  • @naveenahsn
    @naveenahsn9 жыл бұрын

    AMAZING. This is what I was searching for, Thanks TED and Thank you Shubhendu Sharma

  • @Sams_Uncle
    @Sams_Uncle4 жыл бұрын

    Small and crisp with real world application, really good job.

  • @seededsoul
    @seededsoul9 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Shubhendu for taking a real and unselfish step towards a sustainable world!

  • @ShirishJadav162
    @ShirishJadav1629 жыл бұрын

    i want a job in your company...:) i love this work

  • @justgivemethetruth

    @justgivemethetruth

    9 жыл бұрын

    Me too ... this is really fantastic.

  • @edstar83

    @edstar83

    9 жыл бұрын

    Me three.

  • @justgivemethetruth

    @justgivemethetruth

    9 жыл бұрын

    ***** I could do Australia ... no way I would live in Saudi Arabia.

  • @edstar83

    @edstar83

    9 жыл бұрын

    They should force logging companies to do this every time they murder a tree to make toilet paper.

  • @chrisgreen8539

    @chrisgreen8539

    9 жыл бұрын

    edstar83 They do. It's called tree planting.

  • @mopjetc
    @mopjetc7 ай бұрын

    We need this around the world, Regardless of whether there is a climate problem or not, this adds so much value for everyone!

  • @brackenresponse9527
    @brackenresponse95277 жыл бұрын

    Amazing. Thank you for this.

  • @alekseyalexej9665
    @alekseyalexej96655 жыл бұрын

    Well done! This is a worthwhile noble and useful thing !!

  • @abduahmed4518
    @abduahmed45188 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. Am really thinking about doing exactly this.

  • @OttoVonGarfield
    @OttoVonGarfield9 жыл бұрын

    Truely amazing what we can do if we just put some time and determination in to our goal, I hope nothing but the best will come for this

  • @nik3932
    @nik39327 жыл бұрын

    Bhaiya u r awesome.. I have similar ideas of business model n I was thinking always that only I had such ideas..but vvv nice to see u who is actually making it happen...thank you ur my inspiration...I hope I get a chance to meet u

  • @docsan1721
    @docsan17216 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much sir ..for the honest initiative

  • @Red0100
    @Red01009 жыл бұрын

    I have worked in the Swedish forestry industry (I've planted many forests myself!) and even in the cold and low nutrition soil of northern Sweden the trees I planted will be ready for harvest in "only" 50 - 70 years.

  • @Style-gy5wq
    @Style-gy5wq9 ай бұрын

    Amazing Initiative….this will solve the problem of deforestation. It is important to create a sustainable environment for the future generation…

  • @karthik2k2
    @karthik2k29 жыл бұрын

    Very impressive..keep up the good work !

  • @Katyayanibetha
    @Katyayanibetha9 жыл бұрын

    Love it!

  • @billygoatideas
    @billygoatideas9 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing

  • @xi3063
    @xi30633 жыл бұрын

    Beautifully explained

  • @hassaanvault
    @hassaanvault6 жыл бұрын

    What an inspiration !

  • @ChillTheFuckOutMeditations
    @ChillTheFuckOutMeditations9 жыл бұрын

    loved this ted talk!

  • @Vchos05
    @Vchos056 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic & do-able even in Cities like Mumbai

  • @ashleyashleym2969
    @ashleyashleym29699 жыл бұрын

    Amazing Ted Talk! :)

  • @vincentroberto7357
    @vincentroberto73579 жыл бұрын

    love this!

  • @jaykc7802
    @jaykc78029 жыл бұрын

    This is good for all of us...

  • @prasanthsasidharan7481
    @prasanthsasidharan74816 жыл бұрын

    amazing vedio! .wish everyone did this.

  • @findingnimo4707
    @findingnimo47074 жыл бұрын

    Wowww... I was looking for u sir... Searching for ur website

  • @BenevolentXMachine
    @BenevolentXMachine9 жыл бұрын

    This is absolutely beautiful.

  • @Karma8Kami
    @Karma8Kami9 жыл бұрын

    This is brilliant, making this process into an easily copied, cheap and profitable process is the only way it's going to catch on in the west. And with the limited space this requires it could drastically decrease big cities co2 emissions provided the shrubs can survive that amount of polution. This has been needed for the last 70 years and I pray it will catch on.

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth9 жыл бұрын

    This kind of reforestation is half the puzzle to overcoming global warming and species loss. Humanity needs to keep its processes separate from nature so that we do not destroy it and we have nature to appreciate and learn from. Virtually every invention we have comes from nature, and we usually push it too far until it is a problem. There is another guy, Allan Savory, who did a talk similar to this to which he added vegetative eating animas, cows, horses, buffalo, etc to speed the process up by their natural composting abilities. The whole face of the planet could be changed, and the climate as well.

  • @whatilearnttoday5295

    @whatilearnttoday5295

    9 жыл бұрын

    I'd say the opposite. We have to integrate our processes into nature and work with ecosystems to produce more volume and diversity of products by using natural processes. "Nature" as something to lock-up and appreciate from a road-side lookout is damaging to our immersion and engagement..... I do like Allan Savory, and I do like "weeds", and I do believe intensive grazing can help *some* habitats, however it should be noted his work has largely been debunked.

  • @whatilearnttoday5295

    @whatilearnttoday5295

    9 жыл бұрын

    Checkout "Gunter Pauli: The Blue Economy" lecture on ABC Australia, or his shorter less detailed TED talk.

  • @Law19157

    @Law19157

    7 жыл бұрын

    @What I learnt today You're right, forcing the human population to condense into small areas does more harm than good, it worsens pollution. Appreciating from the road side is stupid.

  • @shankysays
    @shankysays4 жыл бұрын

    Now this is a kinda sales pitch masquerading as ted talk I don't hate. He's doing a phenomenal job.

  • @angelareis2941
    @angelareis29419 жыл бұрын

    EXEMPLO A SER SEGUIDO POR TODOS NÓS. OBRIGADA. ABRAÇOS..ANGELA REIS

  • @raaviramesh3
    @raaviramesh39 жыл бұрын

    It is a wonderful experience to grow dense forest in 100 sq. meters in 10 years. Nice thought. It is the need of the time in Bharat.

  • @peter.knupffer
    @peter.knupffer3 жыл бұрын

    Yes!

  • @bhavanadhyani9191
    @bhavanadhyani91916 жыл бұрын

    Excellent work

  • @saiphaniutkarshkethana6044
    @saiphaniutkarshkethana60447 жыл бұрын

    Inspiring!! Kepp up the great work Mr. Shubhendu Sharma.

  • @medman36
    @medman369 жыл бұрын

    Impressive!

  • @Freeagent-4-life
    @Freeagent-4-life7 жыл бұрын

    Well done good Sir.

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth9 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic!

  • @LeonidasGGG
    @LeonidasGGG9 жыл бұрын

    Trully an idea worth...growing. :)

  • @onepiece740
    @onepiece7403 ай бұрын

    Hey iam from Mannheim-Germay we, a local group planted this Tiny Forest like 3 weeks ago

  • @princemintu6933
    @princemintu69334 жыл бұрын

    I loved it....

  • @mopjetc
    @mopjetc7 ай бұрын

    Why arent we doing this a lot more over the world? We need this!!

  • @pawanjindal4286
    @pawanjindal42864 жыл бұрын

    I proud you.you are great.i meet you.op.jindal.haryana.

  • @MrFelixFB
    @MrFelixFB9 жыл бұрын

    This is great

  • @522Dusty
    @522Dusty9 жыл бұрын

    he needs to come to the desert of Arizona and plant some of these. The cost would be astronomic

  • @curiosity55
    @curiosity559 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @patelhind18
    @patelhind187 жыл бұрын

    sir can u please tell what type of plants we should grow for dense forest n how much space need for it . thanks

  • @Zoza15
    @Zoza159 жыл бұрын

    Good!, more green :D

  • @bhakti9183
    @bhakti91836 жыл бұрын

    Awesome

  • @user-nc2uo7ky4h
    @user-nc2uo7ky4h9 жыл бұрын

    Wow, the project is so excited and inspiring!!! Really want to join you!!! And wish this program could set up in China!! Just have one question, do your program consider the bioscurity issues while it dicied what speciese to plant? For example, people from New Zealand or Madagascar, or other isolatated island which has very special flora and fauna want some advise. As their ecosystem is unique and fragile, will your program evaluate the unique ecosystem while giving advise? because those plants are growing very fast, just wonder if they might be protaitially invasisve to the ecosystem if they escaple from the gardens?

  • @muditjain1571
    @muditjain15717 жыл бұрын

    Shubhendu! I am keen to work as a volunteer.. Seeking support! Rgds

  • @vicdoom4223
    @vicdoom42239 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting

  • @Toastmaster_5000
    @Toastmaster_50009 жыл бұрын

    I'm curious about the long-term effects. What happens to the soil? Will there be enough water and sunlight? What do you do if the plants die (since they're so densely packed you can walk up to them)? Great idea overall, especially for countries like China and India, but I'm not sure how long something like this will last.

  • @pranjalpatil6655
    @pranjalpatil66554 жыл бұрын

    Nice🙌🙏

  • @sudeepsharma9893
    @sudeepsharma98939 ай бұрын

    🎉WILL GROW

  • @juliagarcia3452
    @juliagarcia34523 жыл бұрын

    Please,would you write subtitles in spanish? Or even in english? Thanks a lot.

  • @MostlyLoveOfMusic
    @MostlyLoveOfMusic9 жыл бұрын

    so long as roots don't weaken the foundations of nearby buildings, then I advocate this as a scheme which should be implemented as widely as time will allow

  • @Eschen_

    @Eschen_

    9 жыл бұрын

    as far as I know roots strengthen ground rather than weakening it

  • @Arahvhel

    @Arahvhel

    9 жыл бұрын

    kingmensch Foundation =/= Ground, he is talking about roots "breaking" the foundation, which is the concrete supporting the buildings/houses

  • @MostlyLoveOfMusic

    @MostlyLoveOfMusic

    9 жыл бұрын

    Yes, exactly. It is the reason why it is not recommended to plant large trees near to buildings, or to construct near to trees which are still growing

  • @Eschen_

    @Eschen_

    9 жыл бұрын

    Arahvhel Whoops. I'm not a native english speaker^^

  • @novahina

    @novahina

    6 жыл бұрын

    MostlyLoveOfMusic Some species of trees do not disturb the ground next to.buildings and some trees does especially the agressive roots ones and the most tallest of all

  • @BhairavVani
    @BhairavVani4 жыл бұрын

    please provide your online link

  • @motherbrainsunshine3082
    @motherbrainsunshine30829 жыл бұрын

    Neat.

  • @krishnanarwade2894
    @krishnanarwade28944 жыл бұрын

    How you can help me to creat such innovative work in my native place near Nanded Maharashtra. Lot of hilly area is available and in that area rain fall is very limited.

  • @Hiphop101ize
    @Hiphop101ize9 жыл бұрын

    We're gonna need this to replant all the rainforest we've deforested

  • @dimplesharma
    @dimplesharma9 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Sharma Can I have the link to your website?

  • @user-ft9ev9ed8u
    @user-ft9ev9ed8u4 жыл бұрын

    👏👏

  • @pktank1
    @pktank19 жыл бұрын

    this is cool

  • @CarswithB
    @CarswithB7 жыл бұрын

    I want to help my country to do the same one day

  • @Exceltrainingvideos
    @Exceltrainingvideos9 жыл бұрын

    Interesting. How can we contact you?

  • @lukes5461

    @lukes5461

    9 жыл бұрын

    Try www.afforestt.com/

  • @alaskaflounderbasket
    @alaskaflounderbasket9 жыл бұрын

    nice

  • @v_d_key6241
    @v_d_key62413 жыл бұрын

    I want to work with your company and want to do this kind of thing

  • @uXgotXmerked
    @uXgotXmerked9 жыл бұрын

    I'd like to grow one on my face please. Puberty has not been so kind

  • @seenivasaneee759

    @seenivasaneee759

    6 жыл бұрын

    You can plant onion and garlic on the wasteland... You will not able to harvest it.

  • @health8861
    @health88616 жыл бұрын

    How can i learn ?

  • @MrMovieclip123
    @MrMovieclip1236 жыл бұрын

    I m from Delhi & I want to work with you this great project. please reply

  • @VieuxBat
    @VieuxBat9 жыл бұрын

    Wow ou ! Permaculture is finally expending rapidly !

  • @girishsule1551
    @girishsule15513 жыл бұрын

    I am from pune. Guide me how to join your movement.

  • @notjustadentist2037
    @notjustadentist20375 жыл бұрын

    I want to do this....

  • @kokofan50
    @kokofan509 жыл бұрын

    Cool, I kind of wish it could be used around where I live, but we have a grassland ecosystem.

  • @k.s.k.7721

    @k.s.k.7721

    9 жыл бұрын

    Grasslands are the first step in natural succession - nature uses grasses to hold soil. Then the first small, tough shrubs and herbs, then things like wild blackberries and small trees, and finally forest. You can absolutely do the succession faster, and start your own forest! Videos by Geoff Lawton, or google "food forest" for ideas.

  • @chrisgreen8539

    @chrisgreen8539

    9 жыл бұрын

    I second K.S.K.'s advice to check out Geoff Lawton's Permaculture videos and permaculture website(s).

  • @kokofan50

    @kokofan50

    9 жыл бұрын

    Chris Green You don't get it. Forests aren't what should be around where I live. My point was that the native ecosystem is grassland, see as I live on the southern edge of the great-planes, and the trying to create a hyper-dense mini-forest would be destroying the local ecosystem.

  • @chrisgreen8539

    @chrisgreen8539

    9 жыл бұрын

    I'm not saying this is an end-all solution, but it can be a site-specific tool worth investigating. Also, this method does oversaturate the very local environment it is created, I think. It might appear to have great initialresults in the 5 or 10 year initial period, but fall to pieces in 15 or 20 years... we shall see. Each location would have it's own proper permaculture path to follow: the prairies grasslands were the end result of thousands tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of years of post-glacial or near-glacial adaption, and would be the best route for that range of grassland environments. Personally, I would take my cues from people like Mark Shephard, author of Restoration Agriculture and owner of New Forest Farm, Geoff Lawton, the late Masanobu Fukuoka, and others with more experience and insight in this field: www.newforestfarm.net/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka www.geofflawton.com/sq/15449-geoff-lawton

  • @chrisgreen8539

    @chrisgreen8539

    9 жыл бұрын

    As for the TED talk video, and the proposals within it, I do think this approach is a bit over the top and is still quite unproven. But it might have some short term benefits that should be followed by longer term approaches. We shall see. At least people are actively looking for solutions rather than meekly accepting the status quo. :-)

  • @liamoneill8971
    @liamoneill89718 жыл бұрын

    where is his website?

  • @drholidayinn5810

    @drholidayinn5810

    6 жыл бұрын

    www.dropbox.com/sh/4l3sqwd3b9j3pmq/AADUQKKg-QSBCTVcTLKf4u0Ca/English?dl=0

  • @VashtiPerry

    @VashtiPerry

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ninu S. It’s there now ❤️

  • @upresins

    @upresins

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@drholidayinn5810 Thanks!

  • @alonsosepulveda616
    @alonsosepulveda6166 жыл бұрын

    does someone know the name of his company...???

  • @aamirali7341
    @aamirali73416 жыл бұрын

    I have many acres land... But shortage of water we don't grow crops... I want to grow forest there... Is there any possibility?

  • @gunugantiadithya1
    @gunugantiadithya19 жыл бұрын

    What is that website

  • @priyanshnigam5706
    @priyanshnigam57065 жыл бұрын

    How can I join u shubhendu sir

  • @quisno11
    @quisno119 жыл бұрын

    Joyce Kilmer said it best:" I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. we all can plant and maintain healthy small forests as they introduce more oxygen into the air and all they need is a little water a little care and CO2 which peoipole freek out about the world having in over abundance.

  • @harshfire234
    @harshfire2344 жыл бұрын

    I am interested to create amino forest at my backyard can you help me

  • @IPleadTheSecond
    @IPleadTheSecond9 жыл бұрын

    COOL STORY, how do i help?

  • @taakki8802
    @taakki88023 жыл бұрын

    Link of open source knowledge base?

  • @tb6303

    @tb6303

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's what I want to know, too.

  • @floyd7835
    @floyd78357 жыл бұрын

    I love u I m nature person who loves only green my room is also of green colour

  • @nico_rico3185
    @nico_rico31859 жыл бұрын

    Does anyway have the website he is talking about?

  • @nazeeb.davidattenborough4721

    @nazeeb.davidattenborough4721

    24 күн бұрын

    Forrest

  • @lrgroene
    @lrgroene5 жыл бұрын

    I will be petitioning officials and citizens in Indiana to begin using these techniques, especially on abandoned or fallow farmland and around rivers and streams

  • @bahadurchauhan4755
    @bahadurchauhan47556 жыл бұрын

    I like plants and i wont to grow

  • @Sesshyru
    @Sesshyru9 жыл бұрын

    Does it stress the nutrients out of the soil that it grows on? If not can we use this to terraform the mid-west into not-desert?

  • @aspiresk8boarding

    @aspiresk8boarding

    9 жыл бұрын

    There are projects going on to rebuild the desert with permaculture gardening. It rebuilds the soil because it composts itself. Some plants add nutrients to the soil or bring it to the surface with its roots. This can be done everywhere in a perfect system

  • @candyazz28

    @candyazz28

    9 жыл бұрын

    And it's native species. So no it won't stress the soil as much as the native plants would.

  • @justgivemethetruth

    @justgivemethetruth

    9 жыл бұрын

    Ultimately the inputs are water, minerals and sunlight. If you get the right mix of plants you have certain plants that have super deep roots that pull the minerals up from under the soil, or even out of pretty much solid rock ( we've all seen trees and plants growing in cracks of cliffs and mountains ) and then when they die the minerals are added to the soil layer for the other plants in the cycle of nature.

  • @whatilearnttoday5295

    @whatilearnttoday5295

    9 жыл бұрын

    Desert is a bio-diverse ecosystem evolved to it's climatic reality. Attempting to green a desert is broken thinking.

  • @creamofbotulismsoup9900

    @creamofbotulismsoup9900

    9 жыл бұрын

    What I learnt today Perhaps with massive amounts of desalination we could irrigate the desert. But that would require massive amounts of energy, hopefully from nuclear power, or maybe even fusion one day.

  • @kazimkhan1515
    @kazimkhan15153 жыл бұрын

    I want to make tiny forest like this Backyard of my house help me please

  • @sushantnandwana
    @sushantnandwana3 жыл бұрын

    Really inspiring work but the prices quoted by them for these services are too too much. He must intend to help but not with subtle pricing. But great initiative.

  • @sushantnandwana

    @sushantnandwana

    3 жыл бұрын

    I also checked their website and as of now open source do it youself tools are not as empowered as presented in the video.for example which native species you select if you want to do it yourself.

  • @asthbasagr9486
    @asthbasagr94865 жыл бұрын

    Can anyone please give me link of his website or contact details

  • @Chamelionroses
    @Chamelionroses9 жыл бұрын

    Wishes and dreams are nice but work and actions better in making them real.

  • @BallyBoy95
    @BallyBoy959 жыл бұрын

    Love this guy man, this could totally reduce the world's carbon footprint, we got to do all we can to adopt this methodology, and fast. Before global warming ends us. xD

  • @justnoticed2316
    @justnoticed23166 жыл бұрын

    I want to grow this forest but I have less space actually space req for 1 or 2 cars only

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