Before my escape from the rat race I worked as a Sustainability consultant and Building Services Engineer for nearly 5 years. Since my escape I’ve only deepened my interest in environmental and climate change issues, and I’ve worked on environmental cartoons for UECNA (an organisation against aircraft noise), Ecolo (the French-speaking Green Party in Belgium), and the Ontgroie Degrowth conference in Utrecht in June 2019.
Please email me: lescapeartiste@gmail.com if you’d like me to collaborate with you on an environmental cartoon.
Below are the previous environmental pieces I’ve written along with accompanying cartoons:
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Don’t burn where we breathe site launched!
http://www.dontburnwherewebreathe.com is live! Click to find out more information about the dangers of wood-fire burners, and a collection of images I’m creating to raise awareness about wood-fire burners in my area of Brussels, Watermael-Boitsfort. Read more
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Don’t burn where we breathe
I’ve been dreading spending another winter in our new house. Not because it’s not warm inside – the house was completed in 2024 and is very well insulated with an air source heat pump and underfloor heating so we can heat it to a comfortable temperature without worrying about our heating bills, but because the Read more
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No flying summer holiday
We had another summer of no flying, and so we did a round trip in the car from Brussels to the south of England to Jersey to France and back home again using the Eurotunnel and two ferries to cross the English Channel. We had a really nice time on our trip (even if Isabel Read more
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Let it grow..
I WANT THE GARDEN TO GROW!!! I’m so impatient for everything to be greener, it’s the only thing I’m looking forward to about the future, everything else seems somewhat bleak or actively terrible and the kids are at such nice ages at the moment (6 and 10) so I don’t really want them to grow Read more
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Carbon Footprint
I last attempted to calculate the carbon footprint of myself and my immediate family back in 2021 when we were living in our old house. I used a free Henkel carbon calculator tool which unfortunately no longer exists, so I couldn’t use it to update my results now that we’ve moved house. I also couldn’t Read more
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Under a flight path (French version)
A translation of the cartoon I did about life under the Piste 01 flight path. *If anyone can help me with the French please let me know! Read more
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