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Conservation Volunteers New Zealand (CVNZ) is hosting their sixth annual planting challenge on Friday 2 June, in conjunction with Christchurch City Council. There will be six teams challenged to successfully plant as many plants as they can in a two-hour period, competing against each other to see who will be crowned champion. CVNZ Christchurch Regional…
Seaweek Poetry Competition 2023 Celebrating connection with the sea | Toi Moana ~ Toi Tangata Seaweek 2023 runs from Saturday 4 March to Sunday 12 March. The theme for Seaweek highlights the holistic element of our relationship with the nature world: healthy seas – healthy people. We need healthy and sustainable seas to sustain the…
This Friday 12 March 2021, 13 of New Zealand’s up-and-coming landscaping superstars will compete in Christchurch for the coveted Registered Master Landscapers Young Landscaper of the Year 2021 title. The finalists were selected out of a group of high-quality applicants, having been judged on their attitude to work, health and safety practice, maturity, industry knowledge,…
WhÄnau MÄrama: New Zealand International Film Festival today announces the winners of the tenth annual New Zealand’s Best short film competition, with three talented wÄhine directors taking out its top accolades. The awards were announced live tonight following the screening of the films at The Embassy Theatre in Wellington. The Vista Group Award for Best…
While Delta’s full legacy on the office sector remains to be seen, there is plenty of cause for optimism in our major centres, according to JLL NZ’s latest (Q3) Vertical Vacancy Review. JLL NZ Head of Research, Gavin Read, says that changes to employee expectations and priorities, accelerated by 18 months of working through a…
UC proud to sponsor Kiwi Game Starter 2022 competition The University of Canterbury (UC) continues to respond to the needs of the digital screen industries with sponsorship of the NZGDA Kiwi Game Starter 2022, a business start-up competition supporting the best of Aotearoa New Zealand’s up-and-coming game development talent. DSC Programme Director, Professor Andrew Phelps…
The Ministry of Awesome and Canterbury electricity lines company Orion have launched a national competition calling for new ideas to reduce New Zealand’s carbon emissions. The Orion Energy Accelerator offers two Start-up Grants worth a combined $25,000 for people and start-up companies with ground-breaking energy innovations to be guided through a programme to validate and…
Methane gas remediation research takes out UC’s Thesis in Three competition A three-minute ‘elevator pitch’ on converting methane waste to bioplastics has taken out the top prize at UC’s Three Minute Thesis competition for Biological Sciences postgraduate student Flynn Adcock. Postgraduate biological sciences student Flynn Adcock’s three-minute ‘elevator pitch’ on converting methane waste to bioplastics…