SUPERLOCALSTUDIO

SWEET NATURE PLANTING PROJECT

Sweet Nature is a project designed to contribute to and help nurture a healthy, creative, social, livable and environmentally sustainable city. 

By creating a beneficial native garden on a once barren nature strip, the Sweet Nature project contributes by bringing beauty and providing an inspiring, creative and educational space that engages local community and visitors and provides a beneficial place for local birds, bees and butterflies. Sweet Nature contributes to a valuable natural stepping stone between existing wildlife corridors, as well as providing ecological and health benefits and visually enhancing the urban landscape. The project is also part of the Habitat Stepping Stones program, 202020Vision and the Waverley Council Creative Streets project, and contributes to the sustainability and carbon neutral objectives of Superlocalstudio.

PLANT LIFE BALANCE:
WHEN THERE’S BEES ON THE BLOSSOMS

Artist, designer, curator and creative advisor Liane Rossler opens up her Bondi Junction garden and shows off the birds & bees.

OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT & HERITAGE:
Communities for nature

Sydney is becoming more urbanised. Greening the city and its suburbs and promoting biodiversity are important to creating a sustainable city for the future.

WILDING THE CITY

While the majority of the population in Australia are coastal dwellers - we mostly view ourselves as living in the ‘bush’ or with the ‘bush’. However, what characterises the Australian landscape in the present and for the past half of a millennium is what Watson calls ‘deadscape.’ 

HOW URBAN GREEN SPACES DELIVER MULTIPLE HEALTH BENEFITS

A new WHO report summarizing evidence on the health effects of green space in urban areas shows that green spaces offer numerous public health benefits, including psychological relaxation and stress reduction, enhanced physical activity and a potential reduction in exposure to – among other harmful urban factors – air pollution, noise and excessive heat.