Despite the rain delaying our projects by a few hours, Keep Austin Beautiful Day was a success, thanks to the unwavering dedication of the Austin community. 53 sites across Austin 921 volunteers beautified our green spaces and cleaned our water ways 8,800 pounds of trash removed from our parks, creeks, and waterways 855 pounds of…
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In partnership with the City of Austin Watershed Protection Department, Keep Austin Beautiful organizes large-scale cleanups every other month, volunteer trainings, and a Rapid Rain Responder initiative to tackle trash from 25 locations along the shoreline and from watercrafts on and along Lady Bird Lake.
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After many weeks of rain, the sun broke through just in time for our Resource Giveaway Day on October 27th. Keep Austin Beautiful’s Resource Giveaway Day is a free resource day that we host annually. This year we provided more than 200 tools, 900 native plants, and 150 lbs of native seed to the Austin…
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We are thrilled to announce the 2018 Keep Austin Beautiful Annual Award Winners. This year’s awardees include students, individuals, community groups, and local businesses who have inspired friends, neighbors, and community members to improve Austin’s quality of life through environmental stewardship. Join us in celebrating them at Beautify Bash.
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Keep Austin Beautiful is proud to announce Baty Elementary School as the 2018 Zero Waste Champions. This annual award recognizes Austin-area schools for outstanding efforts to reduce waste and is made possible through a Keep Austin Beautiful partnership with Longhorn IMG Sports Marketing and the Bleed Orange, Live Green initiative. This year, we were excited…
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Join Keep Austin Beautiful at LBJ High School for Resource Giveaway Day, where we will be offering free plants, soil, mulch, compost, and gardening supplies to the community.
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Keep Austin Beautiful is striving to engage more volunteers than ever in projects that serve areas in need. For the second year, Facebook Austin has answered the call to volunteer in our county-wide day of service, Keep Austin Beautiful Day.
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By Rodney Ahart, Keep Austin Beautiful Executive Director
As Austin’s population continues to grow at a record rate, we face new challenges—and new opportunities—for protecting open spaces and engaging the communities who call Austin home. That’s why Keep Austin Beautiful is naming 2018 our “Year of Service,” with the goal of connecting diverse residents through community service projects that span the city.
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Planting native trees is a gift that will keep giving to future generations, and Keep Austin Beautiful’s Adopt-a-Creek groups have planted more than 9,000 through Ready, Set, Plant!
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Susie Shockley has been an outstanding community leader and environmental steward for the past 15 years. We are proud to honor her with this year’s Texas Disposal Systems Dennis Hobbs Individual Achievement Award.
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