King County Executive Climate Office (ECO)

🚵♂️ Today Washington State Department of Transportation launched applications for WE-Bike, its new e-bike instant rebate program! Depending on the applicant's income eligibility, rebates are worth $300 or $1200. 🚲 Applications are open until April 23, then WSDOT will randomly draw recipients to issue rebates up to the amount of funding available. Click here to apply: https://lnkd.in/g6QHB-Xp 🚊 Choosing to walk, bike, roll, or take transit can help reduce your footprint! Give it a try, especially with sunny days ahead ☀️ Note: This is a WSDOT program, not King County -- we're just helping to get the word out! You can learn more about EV programs and resources on King County's website here: https://lnkd.in/gUk7vv_M

🏢 King County is searching for a Multifamily Decarbonization Program Administrator as part of its Climate Pollution Reduction Grant programming in collaboration with Kitsap County, Pierce County, and Snohomish County, WA. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $50 million Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) to King County in July 2024, part of a program meant to fund community-driven solutions that tackle the climate crisis and reduce air pollution.   💻 Learn more about how to apply here: https://lnkd.in/gC-mMD6f   Funding acknowledgement: This project has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreement 4101001 to King County of Washington. The contents of this document do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency, nor does the Environmental Protection Agency endorse trade names or recommend the use of commercial products mentioned in this document, as well as any images, video, text, or other content created by generative artificial intelligence tools, nor does any such content necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Upcoming Info Session: Applying for a Community Climate Resilience Grant through King County! Know an organization that's looking to start or expand existing climate resilience work for frontline communities? Share this with them! This morning's info session was rescheduled to *Thursday, April 3 at 9:30am,* so they still have a chance to tune in and ask questions! Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gesaaFUd If you can't make an info session, visit bit.ly/kingcountyccrgrants to learn everything you need to know to apply for the program!

We’re teaming up with the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency to help shape a Comprehensive Climate Action Plan, and *your* input is essential! Join a workshop to make sure your voice is heard. Sign up today: https://lnkd.in/dEmiWANF Join members of the King County ECO team at the King County session: 📅 Thursday, April 3, 2025 ⏲️ 5:30-7:30PM 📍 El Centro de la Raza

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"As climate crises become more frequent and more urgent, our unhoused neighbors and other vulnerable community members that have contributed the least to these crises often bear the brunt of them.” Get to know Real Change, one of our recent Community Climate Resilience Grantees, and their work with King County in the video below! Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gEHwbea2 and learn more about or support their work at realchangenews.org. -- King County Executive Climate Office (ECO) is now accepting applications for its next round of Community Climate Resilience Grant (CCRG) program recipients and celebrating the successes of the first grantee cohort. That cohort includes nonprofit Real Change, which used its funding to better prepare street newspaper vendors for harsh weather conditions.  “The grant we received from King County last year allowed us to do a number of things to protect our neighbors from extreme weather events, to increase climate preparedness, and to empower our vendors to be out in the community to do outreach,” said Cat Munsen, who manages policy and campaigns for Real Change. The CCRG program awards up to $30,000 per grantee to help frontline communities develop new or expand existing community-based climate resilience projects. ECO encourages applicants to tie projects to community health and emergency preparedness, energy justice and utilities, housing security and anti-displacement, food systems and food security, or another objective that aligns with the County’s commitment to support sustainable and resilient frontline communities, as laid out in the King County’s Strategic Climate Action Plan. 

Grant applications are open now for the 2025-2026 Community Climate Resilience (CCR) Grant Program! The program is meant to serve as a resource for frontline communities to develop new or expand on existing community-based climate resilience projects. Projects may center around community capacity development, community health and emergency preparedness, food systems and security, housing security and anti-displacement, energy justice and utilities or heat mitigation. Learn more, read about past recipients and apply here by April 16: https://lnkd.in/ehyfmCJx #climateresilience #climateequity #climatejustice #grantopportunity

Did you catch the latest news coverage of King County's climate action work? 🌲 The Seattle Times & KING 5 recently highlighted a trial helping to plan for the future of King County's forests. Follow the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks to learn more about the work of foresters in the days, months and years to come! And read the latest Seattle Times piece here: https://lnkd.in/gsn97y2z 🌲 "If these trees can survive the region’s wet, cold winters of today, they could be planted in parks and restoration projects across the county to withstand the droughts and heat domes of the future."

Workshop opportunity this week! Register here to attend Climate Justice 101, produced in partnership with King County's Climate Equity Community Task Force: https://lnkd.in/g-Dp9eHF Objectives: 🟣 Overview of Climate Justice movement in the U.S 🟣 Understand intersections of climate change with existing inequities for communities 🟣 Share examples of frontline communities taking climate action This is an entry level workshop! Note that this workshop is a slightly revised version from our previous Climate Justice 101 content, which we have offered since 2023. Please share with others in your organization or community who weren't able to attend the previous sessions.

Did you catch the latest news story about King County's Energize program? KING 5 Media Group featured our new work for adult family homes, funded through the Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates program, supported by the state's Climate Commitment Act! We're also accepting applications for heat pump installations in family home child cares. Learn more about that here: https://lnkd.in/g-TfJkFX 📺 Watch the story: https://lnkd.in/g4JPfz-M