I hope that my work helping to make your schools more sustainable will be something you carry on as you grow older.

Who knows what the future would look like? or what will happened in the future? No one knows right? That’s why it it’s scary because we don’t know what lies ahead. We couldn’t stop the future but we can always change it.

Don’t stop looking for adventures.

Pedimos que vocês procurem fazer como nós e continuem essa luta de colaborar com nosso planeta: evitando o consumo exagerado, usando a tecnologia para o bem, plantando árvores, economizando água e poluindo menos.

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.

Please don’t wait to see the adverse effects instead adopt that river, stream, lake or ocean to make the world a better place.

I hope, as your father, I’ve done enough to instill within you how science is a wonderful adventure.

Tonight at bedtime, you asked, seemingly out of nowhere, “why are the glaciers disappearing?”

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.

We know about this. If we don’t fix this for you, it’s our fault.

I’m doing this work because I see it as the best way to save and improve as many lives as possible. I’m doing it so you, 2050 Ryan, can look at yourself in the mirror. And so you can tell your kids and grandkids someday that you did everything you could.