I don’t wish to go backwards, but I do wish we would slow down and design our brave new world with more care.

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.

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.

Everyone should be grow at least 100 trees in his lifetime.

It’s not enough to just recycle. I will sign petitions and call my local representatives. I will also engage in conversations about climate change – even with people with whom I don’t see eye-to-eye.

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

I hope that people are still enjoying the wonders that nature has to offer.

Climate change right now is really bad, I’m writing this during the COP26 conference in Glasgow (which is an hour away) and I’m listening to politicians talking about promises for the future. “If we fail, future generations will never forgive us.” -Boris Johnson

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