Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s awards are New Zealand’s longest-running sustainability awards, providing a benchmark for environmental excellence. Covid-19 has shifted the global landscape, and its long-term effects remain unclear. The need to recognise and celebrate environmental excellence remains as strong as ever. A link will be provided on the Keep...

The Environmental Defence Society’s conference Redefining Our Future  will explore the extent to which businesses, policy-makers, and civil society have seized the opportunity to transform the future. Among other things, it will consider: the flow of government funding toward recovery projects the impact of recent policy and legislative changes international...

What’s the one goal the new Government should achieve in the next three years to make Aotearoa even better?  Aotearoa, and the rest of the world, is facing two substantial challenges. We need an effective economic stimulus. And we also need to slash our climate pollution. These challenges will not...

This year, the WCMB will be fully virtual because of uncertainties in participants ability to travel. To accommodate an expected increase in participants, there is a new deadline for submission of abstracts for e-posters of 1st October. There is sponsorship to cover the registration costs of over 100 participants from...

The inaugural Our Zero Waste World Summit aims to connect the international zero waste community, build our collective knowledge and celebrate the stories and people that make this space dynamic and innovative. There are three themes as a broad framework for the event: Zero waste people and culture; Practical zero...

This conference, hosted by the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, will bring together experts from around the Pacific region to exchange ideas and engage in activities focused on sustainable city-landscape interactions. By 2050, urban areas will account for nearly two thirds of the global population and create three-quarters of the...

The Civic Trust Auckland 2019 AGM will be held from 3pm on Sunday 24 November at Kinder House, 2 Ayr St, Parnell. The afternoon will include the presentation of prizes to the winners of the school students’ heritage photo competition, the CTA event in this year’s Auckland Heritage Festival. Refreshments...

The information below is from Auckland Council’s Spring Te Kahu heritage newsletter: A heritage funding seminar (co-presented by Auckland Council’s Heritage Unit, Heritage New Zealand and Foundation North) will be held on Thursday 14 November from 5-6pm at the Ellen Melville Centre (Betty Wark Room), High St, City Centre. Anyone...

From 5 October to 28 October Discover the generations of Aucklanders who have journeyed here by sea, air or land to create the city we share together. From Auckland’s most ancient trees to the games children played on board the earliest ships arriving here, to recognition of the courage and...