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Queenscliff Neighbourhood Batteries
In November 2022 the Victorian government committed to funding 100 community/neighbourhood batteries across the state over the next four years. Following years of campaigning and support from Alison Marchant, MP for Bellarine, The Borough of Queenscliffe was successfully awarded four of the 100 batteries. Check out the project here:https://www.queenscliffeclimateaction.org/neighbourhood-batteries
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K’gari Climate Adaptation Plan
The Butchulla people, custodians of K’gari, a World Heritage listed sand island of south-eastern Queensland, partnered with the Climate Systems Hub and the Queensland Government Department of Environment, Science and Innovation to pilot the development of a climate change adaptation plan. Check out the case study here:https://nesp2climate.com.au/resource/an-indigenous-co-designed-adaptation-plan-for-the-kgari-world-heritage-area/
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Resilient Australia awards
The Resilient Australia Awards recognise projects that build stronger and safer communities. Managed by the National Emergency Management Agency and the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience, the awards recognise collaboration and innovative thinking across a broad range of sectors and initiatives that strengthen disaster resilience with communities, institutions, and the private sector. They endorse a…
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Community Trauma toolkit
The Community Trauma Toolkit contains resources to help and support adults and children before, during and after a disaster or traumatic event. It will help you understand some of the impacts of disaster and how you can help lessen these impacts. Emergencies and disasters are extremely stressful and it is normal to feel overwhelmed. Children,…
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Monash Green Lab Adaptation Roundtables
Following COP29, Monash Green Lab commenced hosting a roundtable series on the challenges of implementing strategies to live in a significantly warmer world. In cooperation with the US National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), the Monash roundtables are bringing together leading international and Australian thinkers from government, business and community sectors to provide insights from current…
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Resilient Urban Green Spaces
This research team are creating freely available guides for planning, planting, designing, and managing resilient green spaces to reduce the risks of extreme heat, flood, and fire. These guides are designed to support anyone engaged in creating and managing UGS, and help local governments establish targets to improve both existing and new urban green spaces,…
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Westmeadows Indigenous Community Garden
Westmeadows Indigenous Community Garden is one of Hume Council’s four community gardens, inviting enthusiastic community members to plant and harvest fresh, healthy, and seasonal produce. Members love to connect with other passionate gardeners and people interested in heritage fruit trees, bush tucker and real food. Check it out here:https://www.hume.vic.gov.au/Things-to-do/Community-Facilities/Community-Gardens/Westmeadows-Indigenous-Community-Garden
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Southside Resilience Collective
The Southside Resilience Collective (SRC) is a volunteer-led community group based in Naarm, St Kilda and the surrounding districts. They believe that community‑led collaboration is essential for building climate resilience, that care and inclusion must anchor all adaptation work, and that practical action and ongoing capacity‑building are vital for living in a changing climate. SRC…
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Lessons in Resilience
Lessons in Resilience examines how community service and health organisations (CSHOs) in Melbourne’s west adapted to climate‑related shocks and the COVID‑19 pandemic between 2019 and 2025. The report consolidates lessons from a period marked by extreme weather events, flooding, heatwaves, and prolonged health emergencies. Drawing on six in‑depth case studies, it identifies what enabled effective…
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CSIRO Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance
The Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance is an international network of researchers and practitioners dedicated to the development and implementation of novel approaches to transformative adaptation to global change. Check them out here:https://research.csiro.au/tara/
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La Trobe Uni Climate Change Adaptation Lab
The Climate Change Adaptation Lab is made up of a team of researchers taking a collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and reflexive approach to understanding the complex, more-than-climatic character of impacts, as they affect our daily lives. Their research explores the intersections of climate change and work, notably the myriad ways in which climate change is impacting and…
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Mount Alexander Local Exchange Trading Scheme (MALETS)
MALETS is a grass roots community of more than 580 account holders based in the Mount Alexander Shire. Members can exchange goods using the group’s own local currency, the “pod”. The group runs weekly trading days, every Saturday morning of the year in Castlemaine, where you can find a wide range of seasonal products from…
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Peninsula Climate Alliance (PCA)
The PCA is an alliance of 24 community organisations on the Mornington Peninsula, who have come together to present a joint voice on reducing climate emissions and adapting to the climate change that has already occurred and will continue for decades yet. Get in contact and find out more here: https://www.peninsulaclimatealliance.org/
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CREST- Citizens Radio Emergency Services Teams
CREST is a voluntary emergency organisation. The initial role of CREST was to monitor the emergency frequencies on the Citizens Band Radio Service (CBRS), relaying calls for assistance from the public to the relevant emergency service. This role has since grown to include many forms of specialist communications support for other emergency service and community…
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C40 Knowledge Hub- Adapting to Climate Change Library
The C40 Knowledge Hub is a public online library and resource platform collating practical, tried-and-tested information and tools for climate action and adaptation. It provides resources like research, case studies, implementation guides, policy briefs, and data insights on various urban climate sectors, including climate adaptation planning. The C40 Knowledge Hub rounds up what cities should…
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Global Center on Adaptation – Stories of Resilience
The Global Center on Adaptation’s report ‘Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice’ redefines true progress as a measure of the systems transformed over outputs delivered. The annual publication draws on global examples and lessons on inclusive funding, philanthropy, and justice, it underscores how aligning local priorities with national governance and finance can drive…
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Monash Disaster Initiative’s Compendium
Since our inception, Monash University Disaster Resilience Initiative’s (MUDRI) strong interest in community resilience triggered the creation of this Compendium of Victorian Community-based Resilience Building Case Studies, the first of its kind in Australia, to feature resilience-building case studies, shared learnings, insights, challenges and solutions in this context. Free access to the Compendium provides a…
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Nillumbik Climate Action Team
Nillumbik Climate Action Team (NCAT) is a volunteer group of people in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, who are committed to promoting and leading more effective action to ensure a safer climate for us all. They advocate, educate and collaborate with the local community, and seek to influence decision makers at all levels, to…
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Port Phillip EcoCentre
The EcoCentre is a not-for-profit, community-managed environment group located in the corner of St Kilda Gardens. For 25 years, it has provided a base for affiliate groups involved in activities that promote environmental sustainability and community action. The EcoCentre vision is to provide education and inspiration to the wider community. Its collective impact since 1999…
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Earthworker Cooperative
Earthworker strives to create democratic, just and sustainable economies that enable us to deal with the challenges of economic injustice and ecological crisis. Earthworker are actively committed to creating dignified, safe and sustainable livelihoods in a network of unionised worker-owned cooperatives – supporting and enabling social ownership of the Australian economy. Cooperatives are people-centred enterprises…
