When I was twenty-five years old, I became a classroom teacher in an elementary school. I never planned to be a teacher. I never even went to college for it. Before that time, teaching was never a career I considered. 

But there I was - twenty-five, clueless, and staring at a group of 22 third graders looking to me for knowledge and guidance.

So, how did I end up teaching when it was never my plan?

Well, I was working as a business developer in a busy chiropractic office when some Teach for America candidates came in. Based on my conversations with them, I realized there were a lot of problems with public schools. I carried those problems around in my mind and while talking with my mom one day, I began to complain about the public schools "these days". (Keep in mind, I had zero children in a public school and zero time teaching in one.) 

Almost exactly nine months later, I had obtained my teaching certification and was staring at a classroom of 8-year-olds.

I don't tell that story to get you riled up about all the problems with our public education system (a topic that rivals environmentalism in levels of passion and complaints). I tell you the story because it mirrors exactly how I have come to develop this website, lead this community, and write this first of many blog posts. 

I have been very, very worried about the environment and our ecosystems for quite some time. I have felt guilty, helpless, hopeless, and angry about everything that I feel slipping away from me and the two generations that are now coming up behind me. 

I have talked to friends about it. I have complained. I have griped. 

But I haven't really done all that much to change it. 

And maybe you feel the same way too. 

I like to justify that I haven't done much about it because I haven't known what to do. I don't have a degree in environmentalism. I am not a scientist. As of a few months ago, I never even volunteered once to do anything nice for the planet. 

I just talked a lot and thought a lot and worried A LOT.

I don't want to do that anymore. I began a mission of 100 days - each day looking for something positive that someone else was doing for the planet and that I could possibly do as well. Some of these things were relatively minor. Some of these things were beyond my scope entirely. But every day I began to look for ways to help.

And lo and behold, I found some ways to help!

But I cannot do it alone. No one should have to. The planet is everyone's concern. Every Single Person on this planet and the ones that are yet to arrive DEPEND up on the climate reliably reproducing the temperatures, rainfall, diversity, and stability that humans have come to know over the last 10,000 years. 

So, that's why I'm here. To spread a message of hope and to bring regular people just like you from a position of eco-anxiety to eco-action.

Let's go.​