The Poverty Trap

The Poverty Trap

Seeing the Forest and the Trees

If Collaboration and Mutual Support Work in a Forest, Can It Also Work to Temper Inequality?

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Joan DeMartin
Sep 15, 2021
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Olive Trees in Tuscany

  Trees communicate. And in an old-growth forest, their communication extends to helping other trees and plants thrive through the connection of the trees’ underground root system to a broad and deep web of fungi. Dr. Suzanne Simard, forest ecologist, author of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, and de…

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