The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) shapes narratives about the Canadian mining industry through its involvement in Canadian education and school curricula. In response to pro-mining visual culture, Beyond Extraction has developed What it Takes: an all-ages colouring book. As a counter-pedagogical intervention, What It Takes seeks to promote critical energy literacy while disrupting the grip that Canadian mining has on culture and education.

New! In addition to versions in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, the colouring book is now also available in Eastern Ojibwe, Inuktitut, and Plains Cree Nēhiyawēwin. This translation project was supported by the University of Colorado Boulder RIO Arts and Humanities Grant and the Faculty of Architecture in Planning at Dalhousie University. We are very grateful to the language keepers, trusted colleagues, and allies for their translation work over the years. We hope these books will expand the reach of this educational and design-based intervention, promoting research-backed knowledge about the environmental and social harms of extraction while inviting vibrant images of liberation.