Plants, conservation and maintaining and restoring the natural environment is at the heart of our existence at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney. As a botanical organisation we understand only too well the risks the planet needs to address urgently in the face of climate change. To make progress we need urgent, bottom-up action where everyone is empowered to participate and cause change. The only way we can achieve that is through widespread collaboration, including through our interactions with our visitors, employees and the children we can educate, as well as through the direct actions we take as an organisation. Through this community I hope to learn from other organisations and also to share ideas and initiatives we have embarked on and to share learnings from those.