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Category Archives: Environment

2030 is the new 2050 …

This week’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

Mangroves and much, much more …

A panorama representing the mangroves north of Port Adelaide for Green Adelaide as an educational resource. The creatures, plants and other objects are separate illustrations that can be placed on the background.

The panorama above shows the scene at high tide. The low tide scene is below…

Don’t leave home …

Future shareholders, zoom, zoom …

‘18-year-old Ashjayeen Sharif is an arts student, a climate activist and now a contender for a seat on the board of AGL, Australia’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter.‘ He is preparing to address AGL’s annual general meeting (AGM) next month. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

Haven exhibition …

Haven is an exhibition at Gallery M, in Marion, South Australia, of etchings and lino prints, drawings, paintings & ceramics by Pirie Martin, Maryanne Martin & John Martin, and Simon Kneebone. The exhibition is open from the 11th of June. Here are some of my ink and watercolour paintings.

Wallowing in expediency …

Um …

It’s a bird, it’s a plane …it’s a life saver

Brian Lim and his small team at Wise Networking have been innovating an air-deployable mobile cell network solution – a miniature mobile phone tower that can be air dropped into a disaster area to quickly restore mobile coverage. Each miniature tower sits within its ‘Gyrochute’ which gently drops the tower to the ground. Read the full story featured in this month’s International Fire Fighter Magazine, pages 84-86, and watch the prototype Gyrochute in action here. These are some of the drawings to help explain the concept and its potential.

Future gassed ….

Zero sum emissions targets?! Pfffft….

Libraries smashed and trashed …

Mining company Rio Tinto’s destruction of the Juukan Caves in the Hamersley Range, Western Australia, provoked Parry Agius of Linking Futures to develop a series of images targeting investors in mining companies. The aim is to encourage investors to consider indigenous heritage sites as libraries of knowledge, history and humanity spanning thousands of years and appeal to their moral judgement in reassessing their investment. The Juukan Caves site showed evidence of 47,000 years of human occupation. Other sites across the country show evidence of up to 60,000 years. Here are some of the images: