- Chris Jordan went to the middle of the Pacific ocean to photograph the Pacific Gyre. That island of floating garbage that we have all read about but have never seen. It turns out we have not seen it because it defies the camera. The waste is in small pieces, and spread widely enough that it cannot be seen by a person or a camera. It can however be seen in the stomachs of sea birds dying on Midway island. Check out the trailer for Chris Jordan's new project Midway.
- Louie Psihoyos went to Japan to see dophins slaughtered and their mercury laden meat fed to school children. His creation, The Cove, won an Academy Award and cut the dolphin death rate in half.
- Chris Paine took on both Detroit and Washington with his 2 movie series: Who Killed the Electric Car and The Revenge of the Electric Car. Now he has created a web site to counter the spin about the environment in the media. It is called CounterSpill and there you can see a living archive of 100 years of environmental events.
- James Balog installed 31 cameras to capture the slow motion death of glaciers in "Chasing Ice". He also has published an excellent string of books.
- Peter Byck created Carbon Nation, the movie billed as "the climate change solutions movie that doesn't even care if you believe in climate change.