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Overloading Nature’s Inbox

Overloading Nature's Inbox: Why Businesses Must Stop Digging Up Earth's Hidden Troubles This sustainability cartoon is a stark metaphor for one of the core principles of true sustainability. Drawing from…

Alex MagninDecember 3, 2025

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The Race Against Inflation: Why Spending Often Outpaces Saving

The lack of options for savings creates an incentive for spending when inflation is around. Imagine two runners in a race: one trudges uphill, lugging a heavy bag with his…

Alex MagninSeptember 9, 2025

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Petroleum & curious decisions: Episode 3/3 (true story)

Petroleum & curious decisions: Episode 3/3 (true story) This third and last episode of this series tells the true story of the climate change denial strategy led by the petroleum…

Alex MagninJanuary 31, 2020

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Human power is best! (cartoon #26)

Human power is best! (cartoon #26) OK, I admit it... I hate leaf blowers... And snow blowers... And all those power tools that shove things to the neighbours' and are…

Alex MagninApril 23, 2019

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Pollution of our oceans: paradox? (cartoon #25)

Pollution of our oceans: paradox (cartoon #25) The laws ruling our oceans are definitely not ideal to avoid pollution. The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL)…

Alex MagninApril 9, 2019

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What if everything grew indefinitely like the economy?

What if everything grew indefinitely like the economy? (cartoon #24) There is a good reason why nature make things start small, grow and stop growing when they have reached maturity.…

Alex MagninMarch 26, 2019

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Petroleum & curious decisions: Episode 2/3 (true story)

Petroleum & curious decisions: Episode 2/3 (true story) This second episode tells the true story of the secret research done on carbon dioxide and climate by the petroleum industry (companies such…

Alex MagninMarch 12, 2019

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Petroleum & curious decisions: Episode 1/3 (true story)

Petroleum & curious decisions: Episode 1/3 (true story) How long has the oil industry understood climate risks? The American Petroleum Industry has been around for a long time now and…

Alex MagninFebruary 26, 2019

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Did you have a look upstream? (cartoon #21)

Did you have a look upstream? (cartoon #21) 🛖 The residents who live in the village Downstream 🛶 had built their community beside a river. Many years ago, they began…

Alex MagninFebruary 12, 2019

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The economy is just a means to an end… (cartoon #20)

The economy is just a means to an end... (cartoon #20) Although it seems like we always want the "economy to grow" and to make more money, it is good…

Alex MagninJanuary 29, 2019

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IPCC report 2018 (cartoon #19)

IPCC report 2018 (cartoon #19) One of the main lessons of 2018 was the special IPCC report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) published in October: we have 12 years to limit…

Alex MagninJanuary 15, 2019

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Deforestation: The Barber of Brazil (cartoon #18)

Deforestation: The Barber of Brazil (cartoon #18) Deforestation reached a decade high in Brazil as the country lost 7,900 square kilometres of forest between August 2017 and July 2018. That is…

Alex MagninDecember 4, 2018