Sea-level rise and coastal hazards
Find research on how climate change is affecting sea-level rise and coastal hazards in NSW.
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 move towards a fairer, net-zero future. Through its Virtual Energy Network and regional partnerships, WinZero is proving that when communities lead, adaptation accelerates.
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 wellbeing, the organisation is building agility and climate resilience while reducing reliance on government funding.
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-owned mutual bank is evolving into a social-enterprise group – strengthening the social fabric and building regional climate resilience.
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 local growers to overcome climate volatility and market fragmentation. By pooling supply and sharing logistics, it is building a reliable, regenerative food system for NSW’s changing conditions.
The ripple effect: How regional businesses multiply value across communities
Weaving resilience: Collaboration as the fabric of transformational adaptation
This thought leadership piece draws on Regen Labs’ research for the NSW Government to explore how connection, trust and shared purpose enable communities and businesses to move from reactive resilience to regenerative transformation. It highlights five forms of ‘soft infrastructure’ that help regions coordinate action and sustain momentum, and shows why investing in relationships is as essential to climate adaptation as investing in roads, energy or data networks.
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 surfacing hidden projects and strengthening cross-sector trust, the process demonstrated how communities can design regenerative economies that create resilience, jobs, and shared value in a changing climate.