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.
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 Nations enterprises, Santos Organics strengthens local food security, supports local food producers, and activates rapid, community-led resilience during climate shocks.
Climate-adapted coastal management
Learn to integrate climate adaptation into coastal management to help build the resilience of NSW coastal ecosystems.
Basics of climate change
Climate change is the long-term change in climate patterns. It is largely driven by more greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere.
Delivering Resilience: Evaluating public buildings to provide cleaner indoor air shelters
The case study outlines research led by the University of Tasmania with NSW Government agencies assessing air quality improvements in the Port Macquarie public library during smoke from the 2019–2020 fires. It compared central air conditioning with portable HEPA cleaners to evaluate the library’s potential to operate as a community clean‑air shelter.
Bringing the voice of Country into the emergency control room
On the New South Wales South Coast, a project bringing Aboriginal cultural custodians into the bushfire emergency control room is reshaping how decisions are made under pressure.
Climate change impacts on conservation
Understand how climate change is impacting conservation in NSW and the actions needed to protect biodiversity, strengthen ecosystems and adapt to change.
