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Sydney Is Going Greener—Here's How Visitors Can Get in on the Action
12.10.2023 - 22:19 / cntraveler.com
In the waters beneath Sydney’s iconic opera house, an artificial reef is thriving. The five-year-old addition, which now hosts the endangered White’s seahorse, is joined by newly-planted seagrass meadows, kelp forests, and hundreds of living sea walls, all of which are helping to bring biodiversity back to Sydney Harbor. Both below and above the water's surface, the city—the country’s most populous and most-visited—is taking big steps toward sustainability.
Since the early aughts, Sydney has been working to up its eco cred (including hosting the “green” Olympic Games in 2000), cutting carbon emissions, investing in urban tree cover, and reducing waste. The city’s business district, an urban core known as the City of Sydney, went carbon-neutral in 2007, and for the past three years its businesses have operated entirely on 100 percent renewable energy. Of course, its journey towards sustainability hasn't been an entirely smooth one; the city’s urban sprawl makes car-free transit nearly impossible, and gaps in the bike infrastructure make it hard to navigate on two wheels (though the city government is building 30 “strategic cycling corridors”). Not to mention, the issue of climate responsibility remains deeply divisive in Australia, which is one of the world’s highest contributors to greenhouse gasses.
The Sydney Opera House supports an artificial reef that's helping to support marine life in the city's harbor.
Despite this misalignment, Sydney offers tourists the chance to eat ethically procured (and produced) food, engage with the native outdoors, and even get involved directly through beach cleanups and eco tourism. When I visited the city for the first time this year, I set out to discover some of its environmental efforts for myself. Though my stay was short, at just three days total, in that time I was able to drink, learn, and explore with the environment in mind; here's how you can, too.
My first stop was a pop-up from Canopy Café at The Rocks Market, a weekend purveyor located in a historic district of the same name at the foot of Sydney’s Harbor Bridge. The café, as well as its parent bar Daintree Sydney, donates 50 percent of its profits to the Daintree rain forest through HalfCut, a nonprofit that partners with the Kuku Yalanji people to rewild the forest before restoring traditional custodianship of the land. Bonus: The cafe uses locally roasted organic coffee beans, while the bar specializes in cocktails made with native ingredients and locally sourced spirits, where possible. The Rosella Tropic, made with Australian vodka, highlights the country's rosella flower, and the bar's daiquiri is made with quandong, a desert fruit tree known as the native peach.
In Sydney, the restaurant Nomad
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