When the days of Industrialism began, the values of man began to falter, and the hurry of the masses to "have it now, have it quick" began to slowly stifle the very breath of our existence.  Our Earth, the soil from which we came, the elements that make us who we are, we began to exploit, and in the most irresponsible ways.  At first our brave and nurturing land seemed so vast that we never contemplated the possibility that one day the trash and pollution would out weigh  what she could absorb or produce.  Then in the 1960's, as the balance started to shift, some began to take notice.  In the 70's more started to say " where will our grand children and their children play?"   By the 90's, we were being told by scientists that if we didn't change our habits NOW there would be no hope for our children.  But we were still saying "I don't want to live in a tee-pee or a dirt hut in the woods with no TV".  Technology had advanced, but we made responsible living look silly, so that we didn't have to suffer the thing humans hate the most, change!  When the new millennium began the world of mankind was scared. "Would it all really crash and all the cool gadgets fail?  Would the lights go out and stay out?"  We made a New Year's resolution to be better about how we lived and how we treated our surroundings.   
   Our children are now in high school.  They are recycling fervently.  They take classes for growing gardens, saving water and calculating solar power.  When they were in elementary school they brought us home pictures they had drawn and we placed those "save the planet colorings" on the refrigerator.   We still have them in the drawer by our bed today.  The question is, do we love them enough to change? To support what we knew was right and what we didn't do?  Instead we paid our school systems to alter their thinking so they could implement the change.  Now we say  "hat have we done? We wanted them to do it, not us. "  There is no growing old and happy for them unless we finish what we have started!  Come to CERI and see how we are your partners for a promise well kept and together we will build the stewards of our earth we wanted to be but never where.