Angela Glore, Parent/Non-profit Director

My sweet girl, When you were born, we decided you would be our only. This decision was born from the same place as our vegetarianism -- we want to live lightly on the Earth. I think about your future all …Read more

Christine Colasurdo, Writer

Dear Children of the Future: Are you alive and well on a healthy planet? This is the question that worries many in my generation: have we Homo sapiens destroyed future viability for ourselves and other species? Have we gone too …Read more

Jeff vonKaenel, Alternative Weekly Publisher

My hope is that a hundred years from now we not only have a wonderful climate on our beautiful planet, but also that it will be filled with people like my long time friend and associate, Melinda Welsh, who inspired …Read more

Debra Chase, Personal Chef/Farmer/Blogger/Writer

Dear Future Great Great Grand Daughter/Son, Food and memory overlaps as it usually does for me on Thanksgiving morning. I wake early to get a head start on the traditional family meal pondering the meals we had when I was …Read more

Carol Maillard, Member of the Grammy Award-Winning Troupe Sweet Honey in the Rock

My blessings to future generations.
To life.
In all forms.Read more

Nitanju Bolade Casel, Member of the Grammy Award-Winning Troupe Sweet Honey in the Rock

As we move toward the 2015 U.N. climate talks in Paris, my prayers are for you, your children and your children's children's children. May the outcome be in your favor; for your future. I pray that you will be blessed …Read more

K O

We thought we could buy life and sell ourselves; we thought that made us owners of what we didn't understand; we thought, we thought... We thought so much we stopped going outside, or even looking outside. Our understanding of the …Read more

Daco Auffenorde, Author/Attorney

Dear Butterfly, My hope is that when the seasons change, you have wondrous moments in your life, and that the seasons do change, so that your arms may rise in unfettered joy, that your step skips so lightly you believe …Read more

William Eaton, Writer

This is my letter to the future,
That cannot write to me,—
The simple news that Nature told,Read more

David Sweet, Retired History Professor

Dear Ones, Here’s hoping that you and other 23rd-century people will read these letters, and know that many in the 20th and 21st came finally to understand that our relationship to the rest of nature is wrongly conceived, intrinsically destructive, …Read more

J. Phoenix Smith, MSW, Ecotherapist, Oricha Priest, Ecofeminist

Alafia and Peace to you my Relations: Are you still living in the light? How is your vision? 500 years ago the world went dark, but I remember that great proverb “Without darkness there can be no light.” I pray …Read more

Howard Johnson

In response to your letter about your "8 lb creature made mostly of water", could you believe the challenge is staring you right in the face and you can't even see it? 26 years ago I looked at these same …Read more

Joey Garcia, Author, Advice Columnist

Dear Ones, I am writing to ask for forgiveness and understanding. More accurately, I want to explain how our relationship with Earth went terribly, terribly wrong during my lifetime. At the 2015 Paris Climate Talks, the differences between Earth’s needs …Read more

Jersey Wilson

So what’s the big deal? It’s getting warmer. Do you still have snow, people of 2115? It’s fun to ski in but a drag to drive in. Hell, if I want to cool off there’s always the beach, and they …Read more