Their departure, first reported by Publicola, comes amid criticisms from homeless service providers and from advocates that the agency has mishandled its takeover of the homeless contract system, leaving some nonprofit providers operating without pay. And the authority has its own staff of frontline homeless outreach workers.ĭones was hired as the organization’s first leader in 2021. It serves as the region’s go-between on federal homelessness policy. It takes the lead on homelessness policy decisions. The authority manages contracts for the nonprofit service providers providing outreach, shelter and housing. The Regional Homelessness Authority was created in 2019 by the city of Seattle and King County to consolidate oversight and management of the homelessness response system. Deputy CEO Helen Howell will take over as interim CEO. King County Regional Homelessness Authority CEO Marc Dones announced today that they will step down in June. Millions of dollars from Washington’s Climate Commitment Act, the state’s new cap and invest system, is devoted to natural climate solutions that protect older forests that heavily remove carbon. There are biodiversity wins happening in Washington state. Restoring natural ecosystems to their best, most biodiverse selves can be a result of climate action, Sweeden said.That lack of awareness can make it hard to push policy changes. Biodiversity is threatened by many things - including our own individual actions. For Sweeden, one of the biggest factors is that people aren’t usually very good at connecting how our individual and communal decisions affect biodiversity loss.Stein noted that biodiversity is also about genetic variation, which helps species and ecosystems adapt. To save species, we need to think even the most common ones before they’re in harm’s way. “When a species starts to go extinct, it’s usually going to take something else with it,” Sweeden said. Biodiversity loss is about way more than saving the whales. It also involves the malfunction of a system of interconnected species at varying levels of individual vulnerability.Here are three takeaways from the session, which featured author and magazine editor Michelle Nijhuis Paula Sweeden, who works on wildlife and natural resource management policy for Conservation Northwest and Bruce Stein, who works on species extinction and biodiversity for the National Wildlife Federation: How to increase the public’s understanding of the biodiversity crisis - and how people can act on both that challenge and on climate change - were the two main topics of a Crosscut Ideas Festival panel on Thursday about the biodiversity crisis. Experts say biodiversity loss is a trend just as threatening as climate change to keeping the Earth habitable. species are imperiled or at elevated risk of going extinct, and more than 150 species already have.
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