Professor Lauren Rickards is a leading thinker, advisor and researcher on the social dimensions of climate change adaptation, and former Chair of Regen Melbourne's Research Advisory Council. Sarah Smith speaks to Lauren about Australia’s rollercoaster climate change adaptation journey and why now is the time for radical and urgent collaboration.

Regen Melbourne’s Collaboration and Investment Lead Joshua Devine shares how his experience in the world of impact finance – from attending COP29 to time spent in the Indigenous business sector – helps inform his work developing new approaches to systemic investment.

What could Greater Melbourne look like in 2055 if Regen Melbourne and Infrastructure Victoria put our heads together? Our Director of Systems Lab Alison Whitten slips on her Doughnut-shaped glasses to submit a formal response to ‘Infrastructure Victoria’s Draft 30-year Strategy’. 

Over the course of 2025, Regen Melbourne will publish a series of reports that summarise our initial work in New Urban Governance. In the first of this series, RM’s Collaboration and Investment Lead, Joshua Devine, reports back on our experiments with the participatory grant-making app Hum.

What are we learning from the likes of Amsterdam and Cornwall about how to put Doughnut Economics and the City Portrait into practice here in Melbourne? Regen Melbourne City Portrait Analyst Lokesh Sangarya reflects on how international practice continues to inform and evolve the Melbourne Doughnut.

This month, we welcome Dr. Dominique Hes to the Regen Melbourne board, where she will take on a very special role: to represent nature. Here, Dominique reflects on the opportunities and responsibilities ahead - including what nature can teach us about purposeful governance within our organisations.  

With the successful launch of the City Portrait for Greater Melbourne at the tail end of 2023, Regen Melbourne’s Research Lead, Alison Whitten, explains how we’re using research to take systemic action in 2024 and beyond.

The City Portrait is a result of epic collaboration, but what did that actually entail - read about the people involved in bringing the doughnut to life.