I’ve named Linda Quirk, the marathon-running founder of Run 7 On 7, as the first winner of the Diamond-Cut Carat Award, for making a change toward sustainability.
As her website illustrates, Ms. Quirk responded to a challenge to offset the carbon emissions created by her air travel to seven continents by donating to the Carbon Fund. Ms. Quirk has raised more than $270,000 through Run 7 On 7 for Caron alcohol and drug treatment centers in the course of running seven marathons on seven different continents. (Air travel creates large volumes of carbon emissions, the primary causes of global warming).
The Carbon Fund, like a number of organizations addressing climate change, encourages reducing carbon emissions whenever possible, and offsetting the rest by donating to carbon offset projects, which typically involve reforestation, renewable energy or energy conservation.
I’ve followed through on my part of my challenge to Ms. Quirk, by donating $100 to Run 7 On 7. As a former substance abuse counselor I deeply respect her mission, which she embraced after almost losing her stepdaughter to drug addiction, and then seeing her recover through a Caron treatment center.
I’ll be giving the Diamond-Cut Life Carat Award periodically to people or groups who make a change toward sustainability. I know from both personal and professional experience that change is difficult. It can also be joyful. In any event, it is what climate change and the earth’s dwindling resources require of us.
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