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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Climate Change and Individual Action
The IPCC report last year stated that we need to cut carbon emissions in half in the next 12 years to have any chance of keeping under 1.5 degrees of warming. We’re at about 1.1 degrees of warming now and there is currently a record heatwave in Australia with temperatures nearing 50 degrees. There are… Read more
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Trying (and failing) to cut down on meat
One of my new years resolutions was to only order vegetarian food in restaurants and to learn more vegetarian food recipes so I could cut down at home too. I lasted about 3 months ordering only vegetarian food at restaurants, then 3 months of ordering vegetarian/fish dishes and then after that I gave up and… Read more
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Individual vs Collective Action
View at Medium.com Julia Steinberger wrote a great article about the individual actions that you can take to counter climate breakdown: An Audacious Toolkit:Actions Against Climate Breakdown . Before I read the article I had been working on these two cartoons about the same subject. I think the first one helps to illustrate her article,… Read more
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The Apocalypse?
A cartoon I drew on my cartooning course, the assignment being that you drew something using flashbacks. Roll on quieter roads and quieter skies. Living through hotter summers while trying to use minimal energy for cooling I’m not looking forward to so much, but afternoon siestas and staying up late can’t be so bad! Read more
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House people
I’ve read quite a few books about work whilst I have been technically unemployed over the past five years, but none of them get so entirely to the heart of the matter as to why we make the distinction between work and play in the first place by allowing women control of the home and… Read more
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Your dream holiday…..
I’ve been feeling a bit low on ideas and inspiration and general ability to sit myself down and actually do any art of any kind for the past couple of months. I kept thinking I should really be trying to go back to work and use my qualifications in engineering and sustainability instead of wasting… Read more
