Sustainability Cartoons - Sustainability Illustrated

Thermodynamics’ Hidden Challenge to Sustainability

Maximum Entropy Production & Sustainability: Why the Drive to Maximize Energy Flow Explains Degrowth’s Struggle In his 2025 book Energy, the flip side of money, Pierre Noizat delivers a provocative…

Alex MagninMarch 25, 2026

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Embracing Social Sustainability For a Business

Embracing Social Sustainability: Avoiding Pitfalls That Erode Human Foundations in Business In the pursuit of true sustainability, social sustainability often takes center stage as the human-centric pillar that ensures businesses…

Alex MagninJanuary 6, 2026

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Halting the Degradation of Nature: How Businesses Can Align with Earth’s Regeneration

In today's corporate landscape, the degradation of nature poses one of the most pressing threats to long-term sustainability. From rampant deforestation to overfishing and soil erosion, these physical assaults on…

Alex MagninDecember 18, 2025

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Why Businesses Must Ditch Persistent Chemicals

This illustration is a powerful allegory for the second key pitfall in building a truly sustainable business: avoiding the creation and spread of society's "Frankenstein chemicals"—persistent chemical compounds like PCBs,…

Alex MagninDecember 17, 2025

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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