| Sam Warnock, August 2026
The River That Built a Town: Ramseur’s Past Shapes Future Conservation (Part Two)
This is the second installment in a two-part series on the Deep River restoration project in Ramseur, North Carolina. For this series, I sat down with Mayor Hampton Spivey and Town Clerk Carol Akers to hear how growing up alongside the Deep...
| Sam Warnock, August 2026
The River That Built a Town: Ramseur’s Past Shapes Future Conservation (Part One)
Conservation is often framed as a series of technical challenges: hydrology, engineering, biology, and even real estate. But if you strip away the wetland mapping, the habitat surveys and the land transactions, you'll find that conservation...
| Sam Warnock, August 2026
Why Invest in Natural Capital (Part Two)
In "Why Invest in Natural Capital", the first post in this series, we made the case that natural capital functions like nature's balance sheet, and that healthy ecosystems quietly generate the clean water, flood protection, and climate stab...
| Sam Warnock, July 2026
Why Invest in Natural Capital (Part One)
In 2025, Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 24. This is the date when global demand for natural resources exceeds what Earth can regenerate in a full year. Every year this date creeps earlier on the calendar, serving as a stark reminder of ho...