Co-creating a regenerative future for Sydney
Regen Sydney is building vitally needed civic infrastructures of interdependence for a life-affirming economy.
We convene courageous collaboration across sectors and scales - using Doughnut Economics, downscaled to the city-scale and adapted to the Sydney context.
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Project Areas
Civic Neighbourhoods
Foster civic engagement amongst residents, anchor institutions, local businesses and councils, developing collective agency and resilience. Build participatory governance, map transition pathways, form Cornerstone Indicators and advise council strategy. First examples include Waverley and Inner West LGAs.
Food & Farming
Convene a community of practice on food system transformation: prioritising food security, resilience and food sovereignty. Work with Pocket City Farms and other leading experts to develop demonstrations of diversified localised food production, low food miles and supply chain resilience
Living Waters
Enable a whole of catchment approach to waterway health, bringing a bioregional lens to co-design, supporting collective governance and policy advocacy. Support precinct master planning to rewild blue-green infrastructure. Key contexts include Cooks River catchment and Sydney Harbour.
Convening Courageous Collaboration
To fulfill its role as a platform for collaboration, Regen Sydney plays the critical role of convenor, fostering the formation of unusual alliances through ambitious demonstrator projects.
We employ convening as a form of systems leadership to encourage strategic coherence - across silos and sectors, as well as over longer time horizons. The collaborative forums we curate are vital for innovative experimentation, sensemaking in complex systems, and for collective upskilling in regenerative approaches.
Through convening, we seek to uplift key changemakers across every level of the system, underpinning all our project areas.
Sketching a Sydney Doughnut
This report presents the first sketch of a Sydney Doughnut - a compass for regeneration in Greater Sydney.
We detail the findings from a series of community workshops and stakeholder roundtables held in late 2022, which form the foundation for this Sydney Doughnut sketch. Finally, this publication outlines opportunity areas for transformative action and presents Regen Sydney's strategy and upcoming streams of engagement.
Growing the Movement for a regenerative Sydney
This report showcases Regen Sydney’s formative journey, and communicates the exciting potential of growing the network.
The narrative and findings included in this report draw from public events, community workshops and desktop research conducted in 2021. Guided by the question, "what does good look like for Sydney?", we explore what initiatives are already underway - to see what else might be needed to shift towards a future that's inspiring for us all.
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Who is on the journey with us?
Working together for a regenerative Sydney.
“The challenge the Doughnut sets us is simple, yet formidable: to improve the lives of people everywhere, while radically reducing our impact on the world.”
— David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet