69 local Walmart Volunteers showed their community spirit and great work ethics on April 17th.  They spent 5 hours on two clean-up/spruce-up projects at Pocahontas State Park and Powhatan State Park.  They cleared over 5 acres, spread nearly 40 yards of mulch, and placed a ton of straw over 2,500lbs of new grass seed.  On behalf [...]

2013 GRANT SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN! KVB is proud to bring back our very successful and highly anticipated “30 Grants in 30 Days” program.  We would like to thank our generous sponsor for 2013; Lowe’s Home Improvement.  Without them, these grants would not be possible! The 2013 “30 Grants in 30 Days” program  is once again [...]

Are you ready for Eart h Day?  Our home base is in Richmond, and there are two great events right across the river from each other.  There are other Earth Day festivities just outside of town, and we’ve heard of celebrations in Northern Virginia, Tidewater, the Shenandoah Valley, the Mountains… It would seem that Virginia is excited about [...]

We’re like many of you and gearing up for Earth Day.  What started as an environmental movement has become an organized day of celebration and awareness of all that is great and good about our Earth.  Did you ever wonder how it all got started? Water. Our environmental movement isn’t really a new idea.  It’s been [...]

KVB TURNS 60!  How did we get here…

There are a number of signature events that we really like to get behind.  We are proud to help many each year with our 30 Grants in Thirty Days program .  We got to spearhead an initiative last year at the Richmond Folk Festival that turned it into a green bonanza, with recycling, cigarette litter prevention and thousands [...]

You’ve no doubt heard the stories of debris from the Japanese Tsunami washing up on the shores of the United States.  It’s kind of a fascinating study of ocean currents.  Small bits of plastic and wood are mixing with larger bits and pieces and ending up on the coastline from Alaska to California.  A soccer ball [...]

It’s not every year that you get to celebrate something like 60 years, and we’re starting ours out in style! You may have heard about our Give 60 program, or Get Caught in a Beautiful Act . You may have even heard that we’re throwing a shindig in October to cut some cake and blow out some candles. So [...]

We do what we do as Keep Virginia Beautiful because it’s the right thing to do.  We don’t do it for money or fortune or recognition. Still, it’s nice to hear someone say “Thanks” once in a while.  Virginia House Delegate Alfonso Lopez did just that yesterday.  He introduced House Joint Resolution No. 777, and it was [...]

We told you that we had some great things planned for 2013, and those plans have started to come together: We’d like for you to visit our new partner site, KVB60.org.  This will be with us as we coordinate events, actions and news across the Commonwealth throughout our Anniversary year. When we started out in 1953 we [...]

We’ve accomplished a great deal over the past Sixty years.  And yes, it has been six decades since the Virginia Anti-Litterbug Council became the Keep Virginia Beautiful that you know and love today.  We’ve awarded grants, recognized greatness in areas like recycling, litter prevention and beautification, and seen a whole bunch of Virginians grow up to [...]

Many people worry about their environmental impact around the holidays…not to worry there are many things you can do to lessen your load on the planet! 10 things you can do to make your holidays green : 1. Consider making a donation to an organization in your friend or family’s name…it shows that you care about others and [...]

A couple of interesting news tidbits from the past few days: Forbes Magazine published a list of America’s Dirtiest Cities. Virginia is losing an Icon. The Clean Water Act is turning 40. These news stories are all somewhat different, but all completely related.   First on the list is the Forbes ranking .  It was a list of 20 cities in [...]

A California travel writer made a list of what he considered the top 5 prettiest states in America.   Guess what?  We made the list! “What stunning scenery, backwoods horse country, dense woods and green, green green pasture land as far as the eye can see.” It may be our State Parks.  As you may know, Keep Virginia [...]

Do you have plans this weekend?  In case you missed the news, we’ll be busy tomorrow with America Recycles Day , distributing new recycling bins in three of our State Parks.  It’s part of a broader program to install new recycling bins in all of our Parks.  But our work won’t be done. It would be great to continue [...]

So, the election is over and everyone can get back to their lives. But we’ve been busy.  On Thursday, November 15 th, we will be joining thousands of folks across the country to celebrate America Recycles Day .  To do our part, we will be partnering with Dominion Virginia Power and Virginia Green to institute a program that we’ve been working [...]

What did you do yesterday?  How about the day before that?  For that matter, do you remember what you had for breakfast this morning?  Memory can be a pretty tricky thing, don’t you think? Do you remember last weekend?  Felix Baumgartner dropped from outer space and landed safely on earth.  Watch baseball?  Cal Ripken played in [...]

Virginia has a pretty wide and varied number of public festivals and events every year.  There are wine festivals, Earth Day events, and music events like Floyd Fest .  Sometimes they promote Virginia products or regions, and sometimes they benefit a specific group, like our friends at Earth Korps and their Belgravia Beer and Wine Festival.  One thing that [...]

We had a visit from a friend from across the country.  She has actually been living half way across the world in Alaska.  We took a stroll around downtown Richmond, and she found it shocking that we didn’t have lids on the trashcans.  What did we need lids for?  To keep the trash in the cans? [...]

I’ll freely admit it:  I like to vacation in North Carolina.  I once lived in Asheville, in the lovely mountains at the far western edge of the state, and I found the town beautiful, the people friendly, and I miss it.  It reminded me of visiting my family in the mountains and hollers of Southwestern Virginia [...]