ENV Environment and Nature

Zines about environmental issues, alternative energy, alternative building techniques, environmental activism, environmental education. Also zines about the natural sciences. But if the zine focuses on animals, file in ANM Animals.

The True Cost of Coal: A Companion Rhyming Book

Colour illustration depicting cars, homes, and electronics plugged into a central city grid
The True Cost of Coal is a rhyming storybook from the Beehive Design Collective. It features lessons and activities related to the story’s themes of ecology, colonial history, workers rights, extreme extraction, community organizing, and regenerative futures alongside Beehive Collective graphics designed specifically for colouring on.

This is the first book adaptation of our collective’s art. We are excited for educators and parents to use this book as a tool to teach complex social and ecological issues to young minds.

Alongside intricately detailed art there is a rhyming and simplified narrative, guiding readers through a winding timeline. The story explores important history often left out of classroom curriculum, inspires the reader to question present-day decision-making systems, and encourages us all to envision our own role in moving towards a sustainable and regenerative future.

A Century of Moon Phases: 2001-2100

The cover has a black and white illustration.  There is a moon with a face and clouds in the sky.  The foreground has a city scape and a person on a balcony looking out.  The title of the zine and author are written vertically on the right side of the cover.
"Remember the moons of the past and predict the moons of the future. This enchanting little book is full of easy to read charts of the moon, and includes quotes, facts, and illustrations about the historic, scientific, symbolic, and mythological qualities of the moon. It's the only book of moon phases that you'll need for a century!" - microcosmpublishing.com

"we wanted to have a conversation with Mother Moon and Father Time"