Environmental transport illustration.
The illustration shows a three-seater bicycle or tandem as an image of sustainable, zero-carbon transport.
A cartoon about environmentally sustainable holidays.
Drawn: July 2022
Cartoon reference number: a956
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Environmental holiday illustration
Environmental holiday illustration.
The illustration shows a girl making sand castles on a beach and adding toy windmills to them to convert them into wind turbines.
A cartoon about environmentally sustainable holidays.
Drawn: July 2022
Cartoon reference number: a955
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Banksy exhibition
Banksy exhibition disrupted by Just Stop Oil protester – cartoon.
The cartoon shows a Just Stop Oil protester disrupting the Banksy exhibition in the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Glasgow.
The Banksy exhibition is titled Cut and Run. 18 June – 28 Aug 2023.
Drawn: July 2023
Cartoon reference number: a949
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Just Stop Oil cartoon
A cartoon about the Just Stop Oil campaign.
The cartoon shows a Just Stop Oil protester in an art gallery being removed by a person wearing a ‘Just Stop Just Stop Oil’ T-shirt
The cartoon is a comment on the fact that, despite the worthiness of the cause, some of the campaigners’ chosen modes of protest – such as the throwing of tomato soup over valuable artworks in art galleries – can have an alienating effect on the public.
Drawn: 21st October 2022
Cartoon reference number: a931
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Environmental approaches to domestic heating cartoon
Environmental approaches to domestic heating cartoon.
A cartoon about two alternative ways to keep warm in the winter.
Either install (and run) an expensive central heating system or put on a few more clothes.
This cartoon has relevance for the fuel crisis of 2022, when fuel prices and the price of gas and electricity rose hugely.Drawn: December 11th 2020
Cartoon reference number: a882
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Electric cars cartoon
Electric cars cartoon
Sustainable energy cartoonA cartoon showing electrically powered cars filling with fuel at a filling station. Instead of filling at petrol pumps they are filling at a small electricity pylon
This cartoon doesn’t actually make a comment on the usefulness of electricity to power vehicles, I suspect that electric vehicles won’t turn out to be as viable and sustainable as their advocates claim. How is all that electricity going to be generated for instance?
A cartoon about the environment, ecology, transport systems, hybrid cars, oil-free economy, battery power, fossil fuel dependency, power supply, energy sources.Drawn: 2011
Cartoon reference number: env061
You can find a colour version of this cartoon here.
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Environment cartoon book
The Beast That Ate the Earth
Environment cartoon bookVersions of many of the environmental cartoons on this site can be found in my book, The Beast That Ate the Earth.
I’ve been drawing cartoons on environmental matters since the early 1970s.
The book was published in 2004 and contains about a hundred cartoons in black and white.The book is available through Amazon.
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Climate change cartoon – net zero carbon dioxide emissions
A climate change cartoon about the need to reach net zero carbon emissions targets.
The cartoon shows the fact that if we don’t take measures to reduce our CO2 emissions we will reach a state in which the emissions will drop anyway.
A cartoon about climate change, zero carbon emissions, carbon footprints, global warming.
Cartoon drawn: 2015
Cartoon reference number: a711
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Sustainable energy and transport cartoon – a wind powered car
Sustainable energy and transport.
A wind powered car with a wind turbine on its roof.A cartoon about the environment, sustainability, transport, alternative energy.
Original version created: 2010
Cartoon reference number: a704
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We are depleting the earth’s mineral resources at our peril
A cartoon showing people mining the earth’s mineral resources to an irresponsible extent.
The cartoon about the depletion of the earth’s resources – and the possible dire consequences.
The image shows the earth represented by a boat, with the people in the boat digging out so much of the earth’s minerals that they have made a hole in the bottom of the boat, meaning that it will sink. A cautionary image.
Original version created: 1991
Cartoon reference number: a465
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Environmental clothes drying technology
Ecological clothes drier – cartoon
Drying clothes on a washing line is the environment-friendly way to dry clothes
Ref: a653
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Sundial cartoon. A sundial is a solar powered clock
Sundial cartoon. A sundial is a solar powered clock
In the cartoon a person is looking at a sundial and is saying “It’s incredible that all those years ago they’d developed solar-powered clocks.”
The cartoon illustrated how in the modern world we assume everything has to be powered by a relatively modern form of power, such as electricity in the form of batteries or mains electricity. In the past everything was powered by “sustainable” or “natural” resources, such as solar power, the wind or water.A cartoon about the history of clocks, horology
Cartoon reference number: a544
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Pollution cartoon – the earth choking to death on car exhaust fumes
Atmospheric pollution cartoon
A cartoon showing the earth or globe inside a car, with a tube connecting the car’s exhaust pipe to the inside of the car. The implication of the cartoon is that the earth is committing suicide by poisoning itself on vehicle exhaust fumes.
The wider implication of the image is that the world is suffocating due to the effects of multiple toxic emissions, pollutants and contaminants that are a by-product of the modern industrial societyCartoon reference number: a463
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Wind turbine cartoon
Wind power cartoon
Are wind turbines a blot on the landscape?A motorist on a crowded motorway complaining that wind turbines are eyesores.
A cartoon about renewable energy, electricity generation, road policy, sustainable development and sustainability.Cartoon reference number: env052a
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Cartoon – questioning whether wind turbines are a blot on the landscape
A windmill/wind turbine – blot on landscape
A cartoon about the debate about wind power, and the argument that wind turbines are a blot on the landscape and a blight on the countryside
The cartoon uses the comparison between modern wind turbines and ‘picturesque’ Dutch windmills (or strictly speaking, wind powered pumps) to question whether wind turbines are a blot on the landscape.
The illustration is in a style that resembles a 17th century Dutch landscape painting, as a way to imply that people’s attitudes don’t change.
A cartoon about nimbys, nimbyism, alternative technology, sustainable energy, green power, environmentalism, natural energyCartoon reference number: a430
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False perspective in the garden cartoon – after M C Escher
Gardening cartoon and self-sufficient power generation cartoon
Cartoon about sustainable power generation, featuring an Escher type use of false perspective to make water flow up hill in a garden pond or ‘water feature’.
Cartoon of a woman mowing a lawn with an electric lawn mower powered by a generator harnessing the power of flowing water in her garden pond.
She is saying “It’s amazing how much electricity you can generate with a small generator and a little bit of false perspective”This is a recently redrawn version of a cartoon that I first drew about thirty years ago in the 1980s. It’s one of a series of cartoons that I drew at the time about sustainable technology – mostly employing absurdist ideas such as the impossible structure here that allows water to flow uphill (borrowed from the work of M C Escher). Other ideas in the series included perpetual motion machines and Heath Robinson devices.
A cartoon about sustainable energy, lawnmowers, garden ponds, garden water features, environmental gardening.Cartoon reference number: a263
See my book of gardening cartoons here.
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Environmental washing machines cartoon
Cartoon about ecological clothes washing
To save energy and the environment it’s best not to wash clothes too hot
A humorous illustration about energy conservation
Ref: a652
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Solar power cartoon – solar panels on an artificial sunflower
Solar energy cartoon -solar panels on an artificial sunflower
Showing a plant harnessing energy from the sun. The plant in the cartoon is artificial (a sunflower) and the energy it is obtaining is being used to drive a speaker which is producing the sound of birdsong.
A humorous illustration about alternative energy, sustainable energy, renewable energy sources, electricity generation.
Drawn: Aug 2011
Cartoon reference number: a184
See my book of gardening cartoons here.
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Wind power cartoon – reduce carbon emissions by attaching a wind turbine to a barbecue
Environmental cartoon showing a barbecue powered by wind power instead of using charcoal – as a way of reducing carbon emissions.
Bbq cartoon- how to reduce your barbecue’s carbon footprint.
A cartoon encouraging people to reduce their carbon emissions and carbon footprint by using a wind turbine attached to a barbie.
Cartoon reference number: a046
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Saving energy cartoon. Use energy efficient light bulbs and use the OFF switch
Environmental cartoon or illustration showing how to save energy by using energy efficient light bulbs and most importantly by using the OFF switch.
A cartoon encouraging people to save energy by turning lights off (rather than just by using low energy light bulbs).
Cartoon reference number: a043
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Fracking cartoon. What’s this fracking cartoon about?
A cartoon about fracking and the protests against fracking in the UK in 2011
Fracking is short for hydraulic fracturing – a process in which water and sand are pumped at high pressure into rock strata, where the pressure fractures the rock, allowing the extraction of natural gas.
The gas that is extracted by fracking is gas that is otherwise trapped in the rock and is difficult to extract. The rock is often shale – therefore the gas trapped in it is known as shale gas.
The franking process is sometimes blamed for contamination of the water supply and for minor earthquakes in the vicinity of franking work.The cartoon about fracking draws attention to the unfortunate sound of the word franking, which is not only harsh and sounds like the process that it represents (onomatopoeia), but it also sounds like an expletive and can easily be appropriated by its critics (such as in banners proclaiming “Stop this fracking business”). The word fracking becomes an F word.
Cartoon drawn: 2011Cartoon reference number: fra112
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Sustainable transport cartoon. Wind-powered cars being refuelled at wind turbines
Environmental cartoons
Sustainable transport cartoon
Wind-powered cars being refuelled at wind turbines rather than petrol pumps
Fuel and energy cartoons
A cartoon about energy consumption, green energy, wind power, electricity generation, fossil fuels, alternative fuel supplies, transport, electric cars, battery powered vehicles.
Drawn: July 2010
Cartoon reference number: car710
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Energy saving poster in the style of a World War II poster
Environmental cartoons
Energy saving poster in the style of a World War II poster, with a message saying “Put That Light Out!”
A poster design showing a house with lots of lights on and a message to turn the lights off. A pastiche of a WWII poster, where a similar message would be used to avoid buildings being visible to enemy bombers. Hence the connection between war and fighting to save the environment
A cartoon about energy consumption, insulation, green architecture, energy conservation, environmental degradation, unnecessary electricity use, excessive power use, green energy
Cartoon reference number: env250
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Illustration. Carbon footprints of the west and the developing world compared
Environment illustration
Carbon footprint cartoonThe carbon footprint of the west compared to the carbon footprint of the developing world. The west’s is much bigger.
The carbon footprint of the developed world is shown as a huge boot print, while the carbon foot print of the developing world is shown as a tiny foot print (a bare footprint in fact). This is to illustrate the fact that the west has a much larger impact on carbon levels than the developing world.
Cartoon reference number: env002
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Environment cartoon. Cut down a tree with a chainsaw that uses biofuel?
Environment cartoon
Biofuel cartoon
Chainsaw cartoon
A lumberjack with a chainsaw cutting down a tree, explaining that it’s okay because the chainsaw runs on biofuel. A cartoon that illustrates the way that biofuel is promoted and packaged as eco-friendly or environmentally friendly, when in fact it isn’t
A cartoon about tree felling, deforestation, chainsaws, biodiesel,alternative fuel sources,ecology, ecological sustainability, environmentally sustainable energy use.
Cartoon reference number: env055
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Wind power cartoon. Are wind turbines a blot on the landscape?
Environment cartoon
Wind power cartoon
Energy supply cartoon
A motorist on a crowded motorway complaining that wind turbines are a blot on the landscape or are eyesores.
A cartoon about renewable energy, wind power, electricity generation, road policy,sustainable development, sustainability
Cartoon reference number: env052
There’s a colour version of this cartoon here.
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Climate change cartoons. Fossil fuel use causes flooding
Environmental cartoons
Anthropogenic climate change cartoon or global warming cartoonCartoon illustrating the consequences of the fact that fossil fuel use may be responsible for flooding.
The cartoon shows a car stranded in a floodA cartoon about sustainability, the environment, floods, transport
Cartoon drawn: 2011
Cartoon reference number: env077
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Biofuel cartoon. A fuel pump that resembles a bottle of cooking oil
Environment cartoons
Biofuel illustration
Recycling cooking oil as engine fuel
A fuel pump such as a petrol pump that resembles a cooking oil bottle
A cartoon about bio ethynol, ethanol, biodiesel, fossil fuel dependency, sustainability
Cartoon reference number: env054
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Wind power cartoon. Battersea coal fired power station converted to wind power
Environment cartoons
Wind power cartoon
Sustainable energy cartoon
Cartoon or illustration showing Battersea coal fired power station converted to wind power generation by adding wind turbines to the chimneys
A cartoon or illustration about alternative energy supplies, fossil fuel dependency, natural energy, electricity supply, power generation, sustainability.
A black and white version of this cartoon first appeared in the Guardian newspaper in about 1985.
Cartoon reference number: env062
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Alternative energy cartoons – electric cars cartoon
Electric cars cartoon
Sustainable energy cartoon
Electric cars filling with fuel at a filling station. Instead of a petrol pump there’s a small electricity pylon
A cartoon about the environment, ecology, transport systems, hybrid cars, oil-free economy, fossil fuel dependency, power supply, energy sources.
Drawn: 2011
Cartoon reference number: env061c