"Recycling Yard #6" by Chris Jordan

Sometimes the most effective mouthpiece for environmentalism isn’t the monotone, paternalistic adress of a slightly overweight technically-elected-but-never-took-office-Presidential candidate, but the more subtle and conceptually sophisticated work of contemporary artists. (Not that we don’t think there’s a certain art to Power Point presentations, of course.) TreeHugger has rounded up a listicle of their (but not necessarily our) Top 5 Environmental Artists. Our favorite is the trash photography of Chris Jordan (pictured at right).