Afforestt

The natural world has been dealt a heavy and almost irreversible blow by the industrial activity of the past few centuries. Many forest are mere fragments of what the grander landscape used to be and natural systems are failing us with each passing year. For decades engineers and architects have tried to substitute man-made systems for what humanity forfeited when much of the world was forest. The rate of decay is so great now that an resolve seems futile.

Hope still persist with smart thinkers like Shubhendu Sharma who formally had a career in the automotive industry but, shifted his practice 180 to engineer fast growing forest. As the founder of Afforestt he uses historical documents to mimic the mix of plant special native to an area to restore old growth forests. It comes down optimizing the mix plants from the canopy down to minimizing competition between the species, which allows to pants focus on upward growth. Low competition being the key to his operation, he says he can grow the equivalent of a 100-year growth forest in 10 years. Check out his team's mission at Afforestt.com.

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