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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...
South East and Tablelands
Health and wellbeing
Business
Bushfires
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...
South East and Tablelands
Economy
Business
Bushfires
House used by essential workers of The Collective Impact
Essential Worker Housing. 
Credit: The Collective Impact
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...
South East and Tablelands
Economy
Communities
Drought
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: 19 Nov 2025
The ripple effect: How regional businesses multiply value across communities
NSW/ Statewide
Economy
Business
Bushfires
(Left hand side) Mapping and collaboration workshop for the Regen Economy Activator Program. (Right hand side) Sarah Ansell from Second Nature Conservancy and Cate Cahill from Kaiyu Superfoods at the Regen Economy Activator Program event, 23 October 2025
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Credit: LHS: Nathan Baldwin, Regen Labs. RHS: Dimity Podger, Regen Labs
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...
North Coast
Economy
Communities
Flood
Santos Organics inside conversation
Santos Organics: customer and owner having conversation inside the shop. 
Credit: Sam Clarke Photo
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
Published on: 26 Jul 2024
From gold rush to green revival
Harnessing the collective strength of landholders and community champions, the Upper Deua Catchment Landcare Group is confronting a century-old enviro...
NSW/ Statewide
South East and Tablelands
Natural environment
Communities
Land and water management
Flood
Storms
Landcare volunteers planting along upper Deua catchment