Talks

TED

हमारी नई सोच

IVN, Netherlands

Tiny Forest

Zindagi with Richa

एफॉरेस्ट की कहानी

TED

How to Grow a Forest in Your Backyard

Press

The Indian Express

Why Planting an Urban Forest is the Need of the Hour

National Geographic

Why ‘Tiny Forests’ are Popping Up in Big Cities

Earth Island Journal

Open-Source Green Space

UNESCO

Tiny Forest

BBC

A Forest Down Your Street

Linear Urban Forest

Meet the Linear Urban Forests Team

CNBC

An Indian Organization Wants to Grow urban Forests and Transform the Cities We Live and Work in

Times of India

Misconceptions about Miyawaki Methodology

Pluc.tv

How to Re-grow Gorests…Fast!

Scroll

Why Native Plant Species are More Reliable to Regenerate Forests

The Hindu BusinessLine

They Brought the Desert Back to Life

DW

Tiny Forests, Big Difference?

Bloomberg

The Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst List

Global Indian

How to Grow a 100-year Old Forest in 10 Years

Nautilus

Pocket Forests Are Coming to Town

Mongabay

Experiments with Native Trees, Seed Bank to Revive Rajasthan’s Desert Ecosystem

Discovery Channel

Planet Healers: A Path Leading to a Greener Tomorrow

Cited & Celebrated

EDITED BY PAUL HAWKEN

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

“Inspired by Miyawakis approach and drawing on Toyotas assembly line process, entrepreneur Shubhendu Sharma’s company Afforest is developing an open-source methodology to enable anyone to create forest ecosystems on any patch of land.” 

Hannah Lewis

Mini-Forest Revolution

“Lewis shares the stories of mini-forests that have sprung up across the globe and the people who are planting them — from a young forest along the concrete alley of the Beirut River in Lebanon, to a backyard forest planted by tiny-forest champion Shubhendu Sharma in India.” 

Landscape+Urbanism

Urban Forests

“A fast option is the technique pioneered by Akira Miyawaki, which can be accelerated to grow in much quicker ways, which is also described by this Ted Talk from Shubhendu Sharma.”

The Harvard Crimson

Creating a Breathable Boston

“Schwartz explains, ‘You can plant 300 trees in six parking spaces’…How will these 300 trees actually be planted? To answer this question the team turned to Shubhendu Sharma, founder of Afforestt.”

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