RESTORATION ECONOMY

View the original article published in High Country News magazine on August 29, 2022. 📊 Editor Luna Anna Archey added some infographics to complement my illustrations. ✍️ Writing by Jonathan Thompson.

I rendered these scenes in Adobe Illustrator to describe what a restoration economy could look like. Jobs could be created to clean up and restore the landscape around: (a) abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells, (b) uranium and hardrock mines, and (c) coal mines.