Commit to your relationship with the Earth
Sign the Letter to Earth below to serve as a reminder of your pledge. At the end of Earth Month, we’ll celebrate your commitment by:
- Collecting a kilogram per signatory from our communities in the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, or Egypt, up to 10,000 kilograms.
- Sharing the letter with the United Nations Environmental Programme for consideration and support of recycling in coastal communities with high rates of ocean-bound plastic pollution and poverty.
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Help reach and rally more humans who want to be the change they seek
Together, let’s invest in leaving the Earth better than we found it for the ones we love.
We’re on a collective journey in our relationship with the Earth, one that takes each and every one of us.
It’s time we in invest in that relationship, and begin to live in harmony with all life on this planet. Let your pledge mark the beginning of a change in the way you approach, consume and help recycle plastic. Together, let’s invest in leaving the Earth better than we found it, for the ones we love.
A Letter to Earth
Dear Earth,
I don’t know if it’s the rain that helps forests grow, or is it the forests that call upon rain? I do not know if the seasons bring about the annual migration - from dragonflies to whales - across your hemispheres, or is it the migration that shepherds the change of seasons?
But I do understand the interrelatedness of it all, and through it, of my relationship with you.
If I look at the abundance you have provided humanity, the service you have offered to all life, and the fruits you continue to bear for generations to come, I see that you have only been giving and seeking nothing in return.
It is a right you didn't claim, and a responsibility I didn't realize.
It is time I confessed what I have unearthed, to you: you can live without me, but I cannot live without you.
I pledge to invest in my relationship with you. To care for you as you have cared for me and my loved ones. I may not be perfect. I might falter and misunderstand what I should do for you. But I will not stop trying. I will not give up on you, or take you for granted.
I pledge to become the much-awaited change that I seek. To change the way I approach, consume, and recycle your material resources. To reveal the value in all things, as the truth is that waste is an illusion of the human mind.
I pledge to gather us all together to see the beauty you are and create a future where no material is waste and no human is wasteful.
I pledge to raise a generation that fosters this relationship. A generation that finds pride and glory in living harmoniously with you and all living beings.
I pledge to return home, to you.
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