My presentation at NACIS 2023 has been uploaded to youTube:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-NJbU1vusU In retrospect, I’d emphasize the contrast between the nostalgia invoked by the vintage

Petrofuture Oregon….Gas station road maps are one of my favorite bits of ephemeral Americana. As a kid, I would often spend hours tracing out imagined

Paris and Île-de-France … the Retrofuture map. Après moi, le déluge … mixing up 66m of sea level rise with this 1740 map… Environs De

San Francisco Bay Petrofuture…the Chevron map.Chevron has a huge presence in and around the SF Bay, so it’s a pleasure to base this on their

Petrofuture map for the Mid-Atlantic states… This shows 66m of sea level rise with a vintage Shell Oil gas station map base. 1956 map of

 New England Petrofuture…The New England states become a literal island unto themselves as the ocean rises into the Hudson River Valley. This shows 66m of

How many billions of dollars have oil corporations spent on greenwashing? In my own small way, I’m using parody to counter that, and associate their

If the burning of fossil fuels ultimately leads to all the ice caps melting, 66 meters of sea level rise would be the result. Let’s see what oil corporations are causing, using their own maps.

Introducing the Petrofuture map series. These are similar to the Retrofuture series, but I’m adding 66 meters of sea level rise to vintage oil corporation

Here is the Napa Valley edition of the Retrofuture Series maps. Say goodbye to your jammy Zinfandels and structured Cabernets. This is the restored 1902

California Retrofuture…a 1879 Department of the Interior map with 218’ of sea level rise—if all the world’s ice caps melted. I’ve added modern shaded terrain