One Planet Pictures was set up in 2005 by Robert Lamb, founder director of the Television Trust for Environment (TVE) and editor for 400 programmes of Earth Report, the longest-running environment series on global TV.

Our first commission was from the BBC for the Shell-sponsored World Challenge. BBC World viewers and Newsweek readers are given a chance to nominate a business that is an exemplar of best green practice. Last year nearly 1500 nominations were received.

Robert Lamb maintains his links with the non-profit world via dev.tv. Many of the films listed here are our co-productions with the Swiss Foundation.

Bernard Robert-Charrue, Dev TV's founder, explains "together we have 50 years experience in development film-making but as, for instance, with our broadband channel and podcasts we keep up with the You Tube/My Space media environment; Dev TV has strong links into the Francophone world and One Planet in the English speaking countries."

One Planet Pictures with Dev TV co-produced State of the Planet timed to coincide with the release of the UN's GEO4 assessment of the health of the Planet. "The documentaries were the tip of an electronic pyramid", says Lamb. "The output included a video news release, a DVD presentation, a version for podcast and for the first time the full interviews were posted on the web at www.stateoftheplanet.org.uk". It set the pattern for us to position documentaries as a core of a multi-platform output.

The organising principle of One Planet/dev tv’s newest series, Nature Inc., is putting a price on ecosystem services. Stories from pollinating bees to keeping watersheds intact make the controversial case that nature’s annual contribution to the global economy is bigger than everything human beings contribute. “A new breed of economists is pressing for a wholescale overhal of how gross national product is assessed”, says Lamb. “The problem according to a new UN report is that we are squandering about US$4 trillions’ worth of services every year.”