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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Signs I need as a pedestrian
Being a pedestrian in Brussels is infuriating. The combination of constantly having to dodge dog poo and dangerously driven tax free company cars makes me feel that instead of mouthing swear words at SUV drivers I need actual signs in multiple languages! And yes, it is a systemic problem that we have designed our cities Read more
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The Carcycle
I was cycling with my 6 year old the other day, and this is the invention she came up with! (I am always telling her that when she grows up there will be no cars, and she is cool with it.) Read more
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Lifestyle carbon emissions
To recap this is our current situation: we now have approximately 420 parts per million of CO2 in our atmosphere which has lead to an average global temperature rise of just over1 degree Celsius from pre-industrial temperatures: At 1 degree of warming we are already experiencing increased heat waves, wildfires, droughts, flooding and other natural Read more
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Staying out of the sky
I started reducing my flights in 2016 to only one per year and I’ve been completely flightfree since August 2018. It’s obviously been easier to stick to since the coronavirus pandemic, but I’m looking forward to staying out of the sky next year too and hopefully being able to go on a night train adventure Read more
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