King County Green Globe Award Winners
King County announced the annual Green Globe award winners on Earth Day. We’d like to take a few moments to highlight a couple of award winners that KCD has proudly worked with over the years.
Greg Wingard’s work with several organizations over the years has helped KCD get native plants into many parts of King County, as well as helping KCD and cooperators work to improve water quality and riparian habitat in the Green-Duwamish watershed.
VanWieringen Organic Dairy Farm’s John VanWieringen has been working with KCD for many years to protect water quality along Boise Creek which runs through his farm. Boise Creek is critical habitat for salmon that navigate the Puyallup/White River watershed.
Harvest Against Hunger has been a partner with KCD in helping with food access in south King County. As a recipient of KCD Regional Food System Grant awards, they help not only get healthy food into the communities in need, but also support farmers producing that food.
Dirt Corps is another Green Globe recipient that has been a KCD partner over the years.
ECOSS is a recipient of multiple KCD Member Jurisdiction Grants. Their multilingual staff reach out to businesses informing communities about how to prevent pollution spills into local waterways, as well as connecting with residents about how to implement green home practices, thus improving the health of neighborhoods. KCD is currently partnering with ECOSS on two exciting pilot projects - working with Sound Transit and the City of Shoreline to restore forest canopy along the north light rail extension corridor, and working with King County to support septic owners to better maintain their systems.
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