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Planting trees, rebuilding trust
Mark Sappenfield
As we wrap up our Rebuilding Trust project, I wanted to point you all toward Jingnan Peng’s story today. It shows what a powerful lens trust is to understanding the world today.
I hardly would have thought urban tree planting was a matter of trust. But that’s what Jing found, and it reminds us of a universal fact: Almost any time something is breaking down, rebuilding trust is inevitably one of the essential steps to setting it right.
