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

TED

An Engineer’s Vision for Tiny Forests, Everywhere

CNBC

Urban Forests and the Transformation of Cities

SUGi

India’s Lost Desert Forests

AgriTalk By Abhinav Roy

Engineer to Forest Maker

Afforestt

Non-native Problem Plants

Maisons du Monde Foundation

Les mini-forêts

Afforestt

Maruvan: Forest of the Desert

Natuur Educatie

Handbook: Tiny Forest Planting Method

DW

रेतीले जोधपुर में जंगल उगाने की कोशिश

Afforestt

Indigenous Plant Nursery visit in Central India

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

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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