At EarthX 2025, Lawrence Ford, Founder & CEO of Conscious Capital Foundation, explores how restoration can be both scientific and deeply human with Julie Ann Fineman and Corrin Breeding. In this highlight, Julie shares how learning the land—eco-regions, geology, and native systems—helped her face a “natural disaster” next door: invasive privet overtaking a historic cemetery. What happened next is the kind of regeneration we need more of—neighbors on hands and knees clearing invasives, dormant seed banks reawakening into waves of wildflowers, and a bigger realization that cultural history and natural history belong together if we’re going to reconnect people to place.

Link to Full Story | https://consciouscapital.org/blog/stories-on-purpose/storyteller-hub-at-earthx-julie-ann-fineman/