My desire is for clean air, clean water, rich soil, and healthy nutritious food for you and all children always everywhere.

But being truthful, I know we are not yet on the path that will lead to the change that is needed; but it is visible.

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

So it’s 2050. If the good people are winning the greater struggle, fossil fuels are a shamefully long chapter of the past, and there has been a full scale awakening to the need for only renewable, clean energy.

I promise you to keep trying, to keep educating, to keep pushing our elected officials to act and protect your health now and in the future.

I want to sculpt a world for you where you can play outside without gas masks, an ocean to swim in without toxins, and a thick lively forest for you to wander.

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

I am often faced with the question: why do I care so much about this pale blue dot that we inhabit?

I am grateful for your soul, for your creativity, for your empathy. All these are precious treasures that you have to offer the world. They will help. I thank you for being in this world right now, so that you can offer these gifts at a time of transition.

Our future is being made now, and I promise to do everything in my power to make yours safe.

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – The Lorax