All you can do is your best. You can encourage the same in others. You can admit your mistakes and those of your ancestors. You can learn from them, and help however you can. I’ll do the same. I promise.

I want the very best for you and for generations to come. There is only one planet earth. Your mommy and I will make a genuine effort to make an impact to protect it for you.

I have to tell you something: it is so hard to keep our life “green” for now, but we still keep trying.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you your actions don’t matter. Every single thing you do matters. You matter.

We want a safe and beautiful world for you, little Caleb, and for your children and grandchildren. We promise to do our part.

I hope this year is a real turning point and by the time you’re a teenager, your life is powered almost entirely by clean energy like solar and wind.

In the coming months, we plan to complete a full assessment of our environmental impact online. We hope to discover our biggest areas of resource consumption, learn what we can do better, and create an action plan to improve over the next year.

I hope that you start doing things that will help the world.

I hope that the fervor that is building continues to build and spread and that the world has made progress to minimize the effects of our past actions.

You are growing up in a time of immense change. In the last two years alone, we’ve learned so much about big and important issues including climate change and the systemic racism that runs through our institutions.