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Published on: 19 Nov 2025
How a regional food retailer is building community resilience - despite floods and a changing climate
Santos Organics is redefining what a retail food business can be. As a not-for-profit organic food retailer, community hub and incubator for First Nat...
Santos Organics inside conversation
Santos Organics: customer and owner having conversation inside the shop.
Credit: Sam Clarke Photo
Published on: 19 Nov 2025
WinZero: A community and solutions led response to climate impacts
WinZero is a volunteer-led climate action backbone organisation helping the Southern Highlands community to reduce emissions, lower energy bills and m...
A collage of people participating in WinZero activities
Collage of various people WinZero activities.
Credit: WinZero
Published on: 19 Nov 2025
Challenge Southern Highlands: Adapting care, work and community for a changing climate
Challenge Southern Highlands re-imagines disability employment and community care. Through social enterprise, local supply chains and integrated wellb...
Two males wearing hi vis clothing working in the field
Maintenance crew out in the field.
Credit: Challenge Southern Highlands
Published on: 19 Nov 2025
As climate pressures increase, can a mutual bank be a flourishing community hub?
The BDCU Group is redefining what a bank can be. Through essential-worker housing, community grants, scholarships and face-to-face care, this member-o...
House used by essential workers of The Collective Impact
Essential Worker Housing.
Credit: The Collective Impact
Published on: 19 Nov 2025
Southern Highlands - Gundungurra Country builds economic vitality through collaboration
The Highlands Homegrown Economy project brought together 50 local leaders to map 20 catalytic initiatives and collaboration opportunities. By surfacin...
Jeff Aston sitting at a table in discussion with others at the Highlands Homegrown Economy Workshop
Jeff Aston discusses the Food Logistics Hub at the Highlands Homegrown Economy Workshop.
Credit: John Swainston
Published on: 19 Nov 2025
Southern Highlands Food Logistics Hub: Collaboration as climate infrastructure
Emerging from the Highlands Homegrown Economy: Opportunity Mapping and Collaboration Workshop, the Southern Highlands Food Logistics Hub is uniting lo...
Image of growing, distributing and making food
Southern Highlands Food Logistics Hub banner image of growing, distributing and making food.
Credit: Trong Nguyen (left), JackF (middle), Regen Labs (right)
Published on: 10 Oct 2025
Climate-ready: Planting seeds of resilience in Yass Valley
The Yass Area Network of Landcare Groups is is using the Restore and Renew webtool to guide seed selection for their Climate Ready Revegetation Projec...
South East and Tablelands
NSW/ Statewide
Natural environment
Biodiversity loss
Land and water management
Communities
Restore & Renew
Yass High School students help to plant climate-ready tubestock in the Yass Valley
Yass High School students help to plant climate-ready tubestock in the Yass Valley.
Credit: Sonya Duus
Published on: 10 Oct 2025
Growing stronger: How new science is restoring the River Red Gum
The Restore and Renew webtool provides simple, science-backed guidance to improve restoration projects across New South Wales. In the Hunter Valley, i...
Hunter
NSW/ Statewide
Biodiversity loss
Natural environment
Land and water management
Communities
Restore & Renew
Broke Bulga Landcare members standing in a line for Euc camaldulensis restoration project
Broke Bulga Landcare members standing a line for Euc camaldulensis restoration project.
Credit: Tricia Hogbin
Published on: 12 Sep 2025
Tracing the past, shaping the future
A community-led exhibition in Lismore challenged human-centred worldviews and revealed how Indigenous Knowledges can guide climate adaptation in profo...
North Coast
NSW/ Statewide
Biodiversity loss
Natural environment
Aboriginal cultural values
Land and water management
Communities
People gather around at map at an exhibition