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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A day under a flight path..
I’ve written about this many times before, but we used to live under a so-called emergency flight path that should have only been used when there was a North wind above a certain strength. Unfortunately, it was often in use much more than that, and the only way to describe how it felt when it Read more
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Woluwe Magazine
One of my drawings is in this months Woluwe magazine that goes out to all the inhabitants of Woluwe St Pierre! I’m very excited and happy about it, although of course I am very annoyed at the news in the article that it is illustrating, that the airport has been issued a new environmental permit Read more
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Me in 15 years time.. (part 2)
Some days I am more positive than others. This was not one of those days. How are my children going to judge me in the future? Are they just going to have vague memories of me nagging them to turn off the lights and not use so much paper for their art projects and wonder Read more
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7 bins
He’s already done worse stuff since (Rosebank, backtracking on 20mph zones, declaring war on 15 minute neighbourhoods etc), but Sunak’s speech about cancelling a non-existent 7 bin policy was pretty stupid. 7 bins is in no way a burden if you have a garden with space for a home composter! And there SHOULD be a Read more
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Zero Waste…?
Last February I joined a local zero waste group and as part of that I weighed my rubbish for a whole year. Here in Brussels they collect general rubbish, paper and cardboard for recycling, certain plastic waste for recycling (the types of plastic they collect expanded in September 2022) and food waste (which they burn Read more
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Individual action
Your actions matter and every fraction of a degree and every reduction in pollution matters. Read more
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