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Connecting with nature is so important as it improves your mental health and connection to place.

Trees are nature’s privacy screen. These living fences are a great way to keep your place cool, break up wind corridors, and add value to your home.

Shade from plants and trees reduces summer temperatures, glare, and UV radiation. It improves comfort and can help you save on energy.

Learn tree care tips that support the benefits of greening, helping communities nurture healthy trees, boost canopy cover and enhance urban resilience.

Creating shade with trees and vegetation for heat-absorbing materials like concrete, bitumen and bricks is a simple way to cool our homes and communities.

Explore how urban greening supports wildlife by creating habitats, boosting biodiversity and helping native species thrive in cities.

The Sapphire Passive House is an example of designing for thermal performance and drought, hail and bushfire resilience. It is a project home design available from Blue Eco Homes.

The properties within Davistown are at risk of coastal inundation, flooding by overland flows and tidal inundation exacerbated by sea level rise.

Prior to 2008, 2 adjoining lots in Newport in the Northern Beaches local government area were affected by regular flooding of the creek that ran through the northern-most lot.

In the summer of 2019-20, the suburb of Mogo in the Eurobodalla local government area was severely impacted by intense bushfires, resulting in the loss of 11 commercial properties.