People planting trees on a planting day

Greater Wellington would like to recognise and reward some of the extraordinary work that people are doing in partnership with us to improve the health of the environment throughout the Wellington region.  

The GW Environmental Awards are four awards that recognise the three main groups of people that we work with to fulfil our goal of a sustainable future.

Two of the awards target schools with the  Meridian Environmental School Leadership Award and the Meridian School Sustainable Project Award.  The first will recognise one key person’s leadership on a school-wide environmental project.  The second will go to a school that is working with us on one of our programmes such as Take Action, or Trees for Survival, or on a project in our regional parks or with a community group. 

We would also like to recognise the work a wide rage of community groups do with us with the Rata Community Partnership Award.  We work with and support many community groups through our Take Care programme, projects in our regional parks, sustainable transport initiatives, and our flood protection responsibilities and land management programmes. 

The Nikau Compliance Award will acknowledge how consent holders can have a huge impact on our environment and some develop incredibly innovative and inspiring solutions to reduce the impact of their activities on the environment. This award will recognise a consent holder for going above and beyond the conditions of their consent to minimise its environmental effects as well as managing any associated environmental impacts that are not specifically covered by the consent. 

The winners of the 2007 awards were:

• Kahikatea School Leadership Award - Stephen Eames, Muritai School
• Miro School Sustainable Project Award - Muritai School
• Rata Community Partnership Award - Nga Uruora-Kapiti Project
• Nikau Compliance Award - Wellington Inner City Bypass project team – Transit New Zealand, Opus International Consultants, Fulton Hogan, Wellington City Council

Merit awards were given to:

• Titahi Bay School - Miro School Sustainable Project Award
• Capacity and Wellington Pipelines Ltd - Nikau Compliance Award

For full details on the winners from 2007 read the media release.