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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Heatwave
On June 18th 2022 there was a heatwave in Brussels and temperatures reached 34 degrees Celsius (they were over 40 degrees in parts of France and Spain). This is our families version of the typical fun in the sun* front page news photograph VS the unphotographable night time heat stress made worse by plane noise:… Read more
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Future of dating
Inspired by that engineer who thought his AI chat bot had gained sentience and the amount of time and effort that online dating takes. Read more
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Change our relationship to TIME
In my last blog post I wrote about how I always feel like I don’t have enough time to act on the climate crisis because of the daily grind of our parenting routine. I think our whole relationship with time needs to change to tackle the problems we are facing, which in turn requires an… Read more
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Parenting in a climate crisis
I’ve just finished reading Britt Wray’s book ‘Generation Dread‘ on how to cope with the emotions that knowledge of the climate crisis stirs up, and how to channel them into action without burning out. I highly recommend reading it, especially as a follow on from Matt Winnings book Hot Mess which somehow manages to be… Read more
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The Home Edit
At the end of April I binged watched the entirety of The Home Edit on Netflix and reorganised the house. Which yes, was therapeutic, but also raised some questions about the things we need to keep: While I was doing this I was reading ‘Time for Things: Labour, Leisure and the rise of Mass Consumption’… Read more
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Imagine Brussels
I was going to enter this picture in Imagine Brussels’s art competition , but the competition only accepts entries that have an opensea.io nft certification link, and the prize money is in cryptocurrency, and after looking at the process of creating NFTs in a little more detail and hating the idea of having to get… Read more
