Thought it'd be nice to share this with you friends and have your views on the same It was a talk that changed a life. In December 2008, Dr Akira Miyawaki came to speak to the staff of Toyota in Bangalore. The 87-year-old is a name to reckon with for his expertise in creating natural forests in degraded environments around the world. According to estimates, Miyawaki has planted four crore trees in his lifetime. In the audience was a young industrial engineer named Shubhendu Sharma. So inspired was he by Miyawaki’s speech that he decided to follow in his footsteps. “I realised that this is something which has to be done all over India,” he says. It took Sharma two-and-a-half years to take the plunge, abandoning a brilliant career with the car-maker. His company Afforestt Environmental Conservation Services follows the Miyawaki method with some minor modifications, to suit the Indian environment. So when Sharma comes across barren land, one of the first things he does is to take samples of the top soil from one metre deep. Article continued... http://newindianexpress.com/magazine/An ... 622920.ece
I love the fact that someone is so passionate about making our planet a more livable place with greenery and trees. Living in a region where I have to treat tree seedlings as weeds and pull several up on a daily basis it seems quite alien to me that there are such barren parts of the world. Seattle has a park (7 acres) that is created as a food forest http://www.fastcoexist.com/1682269/seattles-urban-food-forest-is-open-for-foraging. People are doing amazing things. Even our newly created community garden (we have at least 3 in our neighborhood including another at the elementary school) has dedicated a significant portion to a food forest with a variety of berries and fruit trees. What a wonderful way to help the community and provide food for all.
