I am doing everything I can because I want the footprint that I leave behind to be my feet in the sand on a beach and not a carbon one.

This is just the beginning. It’s the accrual of little seeds of change that will lead to the tree of revolution.

I know I need to write this to you, and I don’t want to because it makes me so sad. I have been desperately avoiding my feelings about climate change, for many years, but especially and with greater intensity every year since you were born.

Lucie, I love you more than you could ever know and I hope that my promises help contribute to a better world for you and inspire you to take action as well as you grow into the amazing adult I know you will be.

Last week I took you to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.

One day ten or twenty years from now, when you look back from the future, you will be able to clearly see the entire path.

Don’t stop looking for adventures.

Tenho muito orgulho da minha função (agente de fiscalização ambiental do Acre) pois é através dela que posso dar um pouco do meu suor, para que no futuro ambos possam ter um lugar melhor para viver.

Maya, my love, I promise to be courageous. I promise that when I face a decision, I will think of how it will impact you and your future. I promise that I’ll also step outside my individual decisions and add my weight to the forces that shift culture and systems.

A message from co-founder Jill Kubit:
Writing letters to our kids about climate change is hard. It should be.

If we work together to spread the awareness of what is occurring today, we will be able to prevent it from continuing into the tomorrow.