David Mossop and Sherpas Cinemas are transforming ski flicks, turning the usual plot-less, context-less jumble of skiing images into a message about environmental destruction, mass consumption and climate change.

Building a glacier in the desert. It seems impossible, but artist Ap Verheggen, together with experts from Cofely Refrigeration, has successfully conducted the first tests to prove otherwise.

Street artist Moose wields scrub brushes, old socks, cleaning fluid, and, when he's living large, a high-pressure hose to creates images by cleaning shapes into filthy urban surfaces such as retaining walls, signs, and tunnels.

Lisa Gross, artist and urban food activist, heads up a coalition called the Boston Tree Party. The group organizes the planting of pairs of heirloom apple trees around the city of Boston to form a patchwork of free fruit and community involvement.

Great upheavals demand great art. And now humanity faces the gravest of threats: climate change.

Named one of the top 40 most influential designers, new media artist Natalie Jeremijenko brings a background of biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering to her work. She explores “sociotechnical change” with a mixture of environmental art and science.

To aspire to be a member of ILCP, you really have to be at the top of your game as a professional, and also must have a sustained relationship and dedication to conservation. You must also have a certain standard of integrity and ethics and abide by the highest standards of photojournalism.