Please know that I have tried very hard to be one of those people, to even make the smallest of changes in order to improve the world for you and your future.

Our planet is crazy. I pledge to be an innovator to make sustainable living real.

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.

I do wish to contribute as much as I can, maybe even start a ripple effect, where other people will start taking action too and inspire other people too.

You are young and have a rich future ahead of you. I am retired and aiming for a high quality of cultural life and comfort with whatever time remains to me. I do not want to see a world whose elders sacrifice your future for their short-term needs and personal gain. So it’s up to you and me to speak out.

Awareness is key. Learning about this issue can seem like a small effort compared to other actions, but it’s the most important.

A culture of consumption is the reason that my world faces such an ecological crisis, it is both necessary and proper to address the fundamental mindsets that have created such a destructive culture.

I know it’s long past time to wake up. You deserve a future in which drought, famine, and war are not all your children ever know; the choices my generation makes now will determine your future.

It’s scary, this is the stuff you see in movies about the end of the world.

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

The fact that you are reading this means that you would know the answer to a question that has kept me up at night more often than I would like to admit: Did I make you proud?