259) Shubhendu Sharma: Using cultural and historical knowledge to support regenerative reforestation
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Shubhendu Sharma is an industrial engineer turned reforestation expert. He's the founder of Afforestt, which is a social enterprise based in New Delhi and Bangalore, India that is committed to bringing back maintenance-free, native forests using the renowned Miyawaki method of reforestation.
In this podcast episode, Shubhendu sheds light on the intricacies that go into regenerative reforestation efforts, which go beyond just planting trees and consider various contexts, such as the history and culture of a region; how scarcity is a human construct because when our ecosystems are functioning as they should, they inherently hold regenerative capacities to recreate abundance; and more.
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| 1:49.0 | A hundred years ago in the desert state of India and Rajasthan, the Maharaja of that place, the king, he was exposed to a plant which could grow in desert and he took loads and loads of seeds of this plant in an aircraft and he used to fly |
| 2:04.7 | so he just sprinkled these seeds all over the deserted state of rajasthan and this tree has taken over this tree is from south america |
| 2:14.6 | and it has taken over as an invasive species now because this tree is thor America and it has taken over as an invasive species. Now, because this tree is thorny |
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