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

Sue Chehrenegar, Freelance Writer

To my granddaughter and all those who are members of her generation: I still remember the time that I talked about celebrating the first Earth Day back in 1970. That was on the day that you had turned four, and …Read more

Mony Shohadaee, Retired Professional Educator & Writer

Walking each morning on
a pasture sprinkled with tiny drops of dawn,
I could barely feel on my bareRead more

Olivia James, Healer and Bookkeeper

I believe that those who can read this letter and have survived the Great Anger will be few. NOT because there will be so few people: those who live will feel rich, feel abundance and have a new world to …Read more

Kate Warner, Architect, Baker, Environmentalist

Dear Future Children of this Earth, As I write this letter to you, the world is on a collision course because of Climate Change. Leaders, corporations and people are so busy thinking of their short term interests and most seem …Read more

Carol Davis, Sustainability Manager

It took all we had, but in the end we won. Do you remember our names? Each one of us was born into a world where we had a hopeful future - and we felt at the very least we …Read more

Jamie Hays-Welsh, Retired Teacher

Dear Little One, I hope this letter finds you happy, healthy and wise. I hope you are happy because you live on a beautiful planet that was not always this way. I hope you are out running in sunshine that …Read more

Stuart Pettygrove, Retired Soil Scientist

I was born in California 70 years ago and am a retired agricultural scientist and educator. The progress made at the Paris climate conference in 2015 was too little and too late to keep the planet from warming by 2 …Read more

John Wienert

I dearly hope we have managed to sufficiently address climate change to limit temperature change to 2 degrees C., but if not, at least to keep from reaching a 'tipping point' beyond which the climate is not salvageable (at least …Read more

Gifford Pinchot III

Dear Granddaughter, I love you and want you to have a happy life. When you are 73, as I am today, and have a granddaughter of your own, you will care about her. I know that you would be quite …Read more

Beverly Naidus, Artist, Author, Activist, Professor

Dearest ones, I write this with a heart full of both grief and gratitude. It may be difficult to imagine that there were ancestors who really cared about your future, but there are many of us now who do, and …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

J.D. Gibaurd, Agent Provacateur

Can truth be told? The past, if it exists, is an algorithm you can’t decode. But there are things you should know. Understand: Numbers are. Before we learned to count ten fingers, Pi was, doing what it does, carving a …Read more

Beth Esser, Stay-At-Home Mom

Dear future family, As I write this I picture my two young children at a time in their own lives when they are older than I am now. They are enjoying life with their children and grandchildren (& maybe even …Read more

Micaela Unda, Student, Duke University, Environmental Science and Policy Major

Dear those filled with wonder, those filled with awe, Oh my dear how I hope that you, as a child of the future, are able to read this letter amongst the towering ponderosa pines that call for endless sky towards …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

Rev. Gail Collins-Ranadive, Author and Activist

If you are reading this, dear ones, it means that humanity matured in time to not go the way of the dinosaurs. Please know this did not come to pass without massive effort on the part of people you may …Read more

David Ehrenfeld, Rutgers Professor of Biology, Author

To Our Descendants, I'll make this short, because you are probably busy getting ready for the winter. I live in what you may call The Age of Wasted Cheap Energy, although I'm sure you have nastier terms to describe our …Read more

Rob Swigart, Writer

Dear Ari, I wanted to tell you a little bit about my world, because yours is going to be very different. For one thing, I was born into a world where we communicated over long distances by physical letters, or …Read more

Karleen Koen, Writer

Hope
There's always hope
I send you hopeRead more

Maureen McGarry, Director, Volunteer Center of the Redwoods

Dear Family of the Future, Since I did not have children, this is for all who came after me. I loved and cared for many children and saw them as future guardians of the planet, and of all that is …Read more

Alexis Bonogofsky, Goat Rancher and Anti-coal Activist

Dear Future Montanans, I have asked that you not open this note until 2115. There is a place I want you to go to read this letter, the place where I wrote it. It is a river valley in southeast …Read more

Annie Leonard, Creator of the Story of Stuff and Executive Director, Greenpeace USA

It’s hard to imagine writing to the granddaughter of my own daughter, but if you’re anything like her - strong, smart, occasionally a little stubborn - then I have no doubt the world is in good hands. By now your …Read more