#1 End poverty
#2 Food security & improved nutrition
#2 Food security & improved nutrition
- Deliver high quality, safe, reliable and cost effective services that meet the needs of our clients and the broader community.
- Prioritise projects that focus on supporting community health and wellbeing.
- Prioritise partners and suppliers who focus on business integrity, diversity, inclusion and reconciliation.
- Petition government to create sound policy frameworks that support food security, and reduce exposure to climate-related events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters.
#2 Food security & improved nutrition
#2 Food security & improved nutrition
#2 Food security & improved nutrition
- Build garden beds with edible plants for disadvantaged communities.
- Where possible we utilise locally sourced, native and/ or edible plants, and sustainable materials.
- Prioritise partners and suppliers who focus on food security, improving soil quality and mitigating the effects of climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters.
- Provide free education for vulnerable communities on establishing and maintaining edible gardens.
#3 Healthy lives & well-being for all
#2 Food security & improved nutrition
#4 Inclusive & equitable quality education
- Actively support the physical, mental and emotional safety and wellbeing of our employees, partners and suppliers.
- Prioritise projects that support community exercise and recreation, such as shared pathways, cycleways and walkways, parks and play equipment.
- Prioritise projects that reduce urban cooling, and improve the physical and mental wellbeing of our communities, specifically projects that seek to improve water and soil quality.
#4 Inclusive & equitable quality education
#4 Inclusive & equitable quality education
#4 Inclusive & equitable quality education
- Building awareness of the traditional owners of the land on which we work, and educating our project teams on the importance and management of local sites.
- Create a culture of learning by prioritising the continuous improvement and education of our team, subcontractors and clients.
- Support vocational training and apprenticeship programs, especially for vulnerable people, women, indigenous workers, refugees and workers with disabilities.
- Improve horticultural literacy by supporting community education programs and the creation of digital education content.
#5 Gender equality & empowerment
#4 Inclusive & equitable quality education
#5 Gender equality & empowerment
- Demonstrated commitment to gender equality, with the inclusion of a female Director (50%) in our Executive Team.
- Prioritise partnerships with clients and suppliers who actively support all genders, i.e. male, female, transgender, gender neutral, non-binary, agender, pangender, genderqueer, two-spirit, third gender, and all or a combination of these.
- Actively develop an inclusive workplace culture, with a clear Diversity, Inclusion and Gender Equality Strategy, with provisions for flexible work and equal access to benefits such as pay, bonus payments and leave.
#6 Sustainable water management
#4 Inclusive & equitable quality education
#5 Gender equality & empowerment
- Prioritise the design and construction of water smart gardens through the use of native plants, mulch, effective planting plans and efficient irrigation.
- Partner with suppliers who utilise smart water methods in the development of their plants and materials.
- Manage water usage on project sites effectively to minimise waste.
- Petition government to deliver the Murray Basin Plan as it was intended, particularly in the lead up to the 2024 review.
- Petition governments to negotiate true water justice and water management with First Nations Peoples.
#7 Sustainable energy
#8 Decent work & economic growth
#8 Decent work & economic growth
- Prioritise the use of hybrid vehicles and battery (rather than petrol) operated tools, as well as those with high energy ratings.
- Avoid the use of heat generating materials, such as astro turf, and preference cooling materials such as native grasses and plants.
- Utilise solar energy to power landscape elements, such as water features.
- Petition governments to set and achieve more aggressive emissions reduction targets and clean energy programs.
#8 Decent work & economic growth
#8 Decent work & economic growth
#8 Decent work & economic growth
- Supplier policy and framework that shifts value exclusively from monetary benefit to considering social and environmental impacts.
- Inducting suppliers into our environmental and diversity and inclusion strategies, and focusing on ways to identify opportunities which deliver mutual value
- Support safe and fair workplaces in our supply chain through an emphasis on safe, secure and flexible employment for all workers.
#9 Innovation & infrastructure
#8 Decent work & economic growth
#9 Innovation & infrastructure
- Collaborating with our clients and stakeholders to explore the benefits of sustainable landscape design and construction.
- Driving efficiencies in process and technology to reduce emissions in our operations.
- Advance the circular economy through our commitment to utilising recycled and sustainable materials while ensuring affordability for our clients and the community.
#10 Reduced inequalities
#12 Sustainable production & consumption
#9 Innovation & infrastructure
- Providing training and employment opportunities to improve diversity and inclusion in our workforce and community.
- Actively seeking, wherever we can, to recognise and address barriers to employment.
- Up-skill our people to effectively respond and refer if they become aware that a colleague or client shares is experiencing family violence.
- Improve role flexibility to cater for the growing diversity of our workforce.
- Improve client and community outcomes through a deeper understanding of their needs.
#11 Sustainable cities & communities
#12 Sustainable production & consumption
#12 Sustainable production & consumption
- Utilising sustainable practices to build durable gardens and community spaces.
- Building a culture of continuous improvement that consistently seeks out new ways to reduce our carbon emissions.
- Preserve, protect and conserve local natural heritage, by prioritising Indigenous and endemic plant species, and supporting authorities to build and restore wetlands, drainage channels and park areas.
#12 Sustainable production & consumption
#12 Sustainable production & consumption
#12 Sustainable production & consumption
- Implement sustainable production and consumption practices to reduce future economic, environmental and social costs, and strengthen economic competitiveness.
- Reduce food waste and support sustainable food practices through designing and building practical kitchen gardens, and supporting community gardens.
- Ensuring environmentally sound management of chemicals and waste to reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimise their adverse impacts on human health and the environment.
- Reducing waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.
#13 Action to combat climate change
#15 Protect, restore & promote terrestrial ecosystems
#14 Conserve the oceans, seas & marine resources
- Use our platform to improve education and awareness of human and institutional capacity to mitigate, adapt and reduce climate change climate change.
- Promote and support climate focused organisations, such as Seed Mob, Australia’s first Indigenous youth climate network.
- Serve only plant based meals at Reclaimed Spaces events and functions.
#14 Conserve the oceans, seas & marine resources
#15 Protect, restore & promote terrestrial ecosystems
#14 Conserve the oceans, seas & marine resources
- Minimise the use of chemical sprays and pre-emergent on commercial sites, utilising only those approved by regulatory authorities.
- Implement a 'no chemicals' policy on residential sites.
- Ensure appropriate waste disposal and recycling to prevent rubbish ending up in waterways.
#15 Protect, restore & promote terrestrial ecosystems
#15 Protect, restore & promote terrestrial ecosystems
#15 Protect, restore & promote terrestrial ecosystems
- Prioritise projects that support the construction and restoration of wetlands, drainage channels and land regeneration.
- Prioritise the use of indigenous and endemic plant species on residential sites.
- Use our platform to educate and encourage the protection and restoration of terrestrial ecosystems.
#16 Promote peaceful & inclusive societies
#15 Protect, restore & promote terrestrial ecosystems
- Safeguard and support our people and their families through the creation of a Domestic and Family Violence policy.
- Supporting programs and charities, such as Polished Man, that focus on ending violence against women and children.
- Prioritising and promoting projects that meet our purpose of 'Strengthen[ing] the physiological, social and economic health of our community.'
#17 Partnerships for Sustainable Development
#17 Partnerships for Sustainable Development
- Collaborate with other local businesses, community groups, local councils and government departments to create recreation and education opportunities that strengthen the wellbeing of our community.