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Keep NZ Beautiful Week 2014 officially the biggest ever

Thursday, 25 September 2014, 5:32 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Keep New Zealand Beautiful want to congratulate all the volunteers, many of whom who braved wild weather last week to clean up their patch. The annual Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week concluded on Saturday 20th September and saw the biggest number of ... More >>

Winners of Best Towns And Cities Awards 2010 Announced

Friday, 10 December 2010, 1:27 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Winners of the 2010 New World/Four Square Best Towns and Cities Awards were announced at last night’s Awards Ceremony held at Parliament. The Best Towns and Cities Awards have been run annually by Keep New Zealand for over 20 years. This year twenty-four ... More >>

KNZB launches Butt-free Campaign in Dunedin

Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 4:39 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Keep New Zealand Beautiful (KNZB), in conjunction with the Dunedin City Council is proud to announce the launch of a new campaign to rid the Dunedin’s central city footpaths of cigarette butts. The first phase of the programme, designed to encourage ... More >>

Keep New Zealand Beautiful Chooses NZ's best Towns

Monday, 22 September 2008, 4:42 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

KNZB has chosen this year’s winners in its Beautiful Towns and Cities Awards and its Best Loo Competition. More >>

NZ's Beautiful Cities and Towns Decided soon

Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 4:50 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Civic spruce-ups are reaching their climax in many towns and cities across New Zealand as the Keep New Zealand Beautiful Society comes close to choosing its most beautiful city or town for 2008. The winner of this Coca Cola-sponsored initiative will be ... More >>

The Spring Clean Is On Again

Monday, 18 August 2008, 4:36 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

More than a million participants are expected to roll their sleeves up and spring clean their country when Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s Clean Up New Zealand Week happens in September. At the same time, Graffiti Free Week launches to tackle tagging. More >>

Keep New Zealand Beautiful Appoints its new CEO

Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 12:10 am | Keep NZ Beautiful

Keep New Zealand Beautiful (KNZB) today announced the appointment of Simon Johnston as the new Interim Chief Executive Officer of one of New Zealand's leading environmental charitable organisations. More >>

Clean Up NZ Week overcomes loss of govt help

Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 10:57 am | Keep NZ Beautiful

New Zealand’s biggest public participation event, Clean Up New Zealand Week, has been rescued by ten corporate sponsors who have stepped up to support it after the Ministry for the Environment declined to part-fund it. More >>

Westland Dist. Council wins Barnita Trust trophy

Monday, 3 March 2008, 9:24 am | Keep NZ Beautiful

Westland District Council’s “fantastic attitude and presentation” scooped all other New Zealand local bodies to take the Barnita Trust / Keep New Zealand Beautiful trophy at a Beehive function tonight. More >>

Environmentalist of the Year Named

Monday, 3 March 2008, 9:23 am | Keep NZ Beautiful

Keep New Zealand Beautiful and Fonterra have named Mosgiel’s Lester Harvey as their Environmentalist of the Year. More >>

Keep NZ Beautiful begins great graffiti cover up

Friday, 2 November 2007, 3:40 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

The first paint’s been applied to urban eyesores by Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s graffiti challenge. More >>

New Zealand’s best loos

Sunday, 23 September 2007, 3:25 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

New Zealand’s best loo for 2007 may be found in Te Awamutu, say Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s judges, and the next two, second equal, are but a comfort stop away in Whakatane and Taupo. More >>

Clean Up New Zealand Week

Sunday, 23 September 2007, 3:25 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Keep New Zealand Beautiful achieved its 1.3 million participants target in the just-completed Clean Up Week. Chief executive officer, Barry Lucinsky, says he’s confident the numbers turned out, because he personally sent rubbish bags to pick-up depots as ... More >>

New Zealand’s most beautiful towns named

Sunday, 23 September 2007, 3:23 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Kaiapoi and Gisborne have won Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s ‘Beautiful Towns’ award for 2007. Paeroa has been highly recommended More >>

Judging Begins For 2007 Beautiful Cities & Towns

Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 4:22 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Town and city pride is at stake when the Keep New Zealand Beautiful Society chooses its most beautiful city or town for 2007. The winner will be announced at the society’s annual meeting later next month. More >>

Who has best loo? KNZB busting to find out

Friday, 10 August 2007, 11:28 am | Keep NZ Beautiful

It’s not quite toilet brushes at fifty paces but local bodies and citizens around New Zealand are squaring up again this year for the Best Loo Competition. It’s one of the many projects the Keep New Zealand Beautiful Society runs to give a lead ... More >>

Are you one in 1.3 million?

Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 12:33 am | Keep NZ Beautiful

New Zealand’s annual spring clean starts in just 1 month and indications are that it will be the best-attended in Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s history. More >>

Clean Up NZ Week: 1.3 mil Participants Expected

Monday, 21 May 2007, 4:31 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

One of the greatest mass-participation events in New Zealand will happen this year when around 1.3 million people accept Keep New Zealand Beautiful's invitation to give the country its annual spring clean. More >>

Partnership aims to eliminate plastic bags

Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 4:38 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Keep New Zealand Beautiful and Bunnings Warehouse have formed a partnership to eliminate the use of plastic bags from all of the hardware chain's stores by the end of December this year. More >>

Keep New Zealand Beautiful pushes Pasifika pride

Friday, 9 March 2007, 10:33 am | Keep NZ Beautiful

Keep New Zealand Beautiful is going all out over the next few days to push Pacific pride into its campaign to encourage a clean, green New Zealand. It's sponsoring "Beautiful Villages", a competition between the 10 villages at Pasifika Festival, ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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