Barbara Pyle

The series first season was released on DVD on April 19, 2011 and a feature film has been announced by Cartoon Network, which, as of November 2019 and despite further attempts in 2013 and 2016, has not yet come to any results. Despite this, the series came back on TV in 2017, via a crossover episode of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes entitled "The Power Is Yours", after one of Captain Planet's catchphrases. Many of the voice actors reprised their roles from the show.

In honor of Captain Planet's 20th anniversary, in 2010 the Planeteer team built a website and created a social media presence for fans of the series. The team aimed to blend fan service with environmental innovation and give fans around the world the chance to tell their Planeteer story, connect with others, and promote their environmental service projects and experiences that intend to lead to a sustainable future.

Fans would self identify as Planeteers to Pyle, relating their personal tales of the series' effect on their lives. Inspired and humbled by the global impact of the show, in 2009 Pyle began investigating how she could connect the large number of fans with each other through the Internet. In two years of seeking out social media experts and serving on various panels, Barbara constructed a team that began work on what would become the Planeteer Movement.

In 2009, in association with Photographers Against Hunger, Pyle donated two of her rarely seen photos of Springsteen and the band to benefit the New Jersey Food Bank, a pet cause of the iconic singer. Pyle donated Dawn Rehearsal, a rarely seen black and white portrait of the exhausted band after a 3-day recording session before embarking on the Born to Run tour. The second donated photo, My Home Town, was taken in 1975 after leaving Pyle's childhood home in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.

After leaving CNN/TBS, Pyle concentrated on running the Barbara Pyle Foundation (BPF) which she established in 1997 with the financial portion of her Sasakawa Prize.

Pyle served as the CPF's chairman of the board from 1991 to 2001. She currently has a seat on the board of directors and chairs its media committee.

The series launched in September 1990 and ran for six seasons with a total of 113 episodes. Featuring celebrity voices such as Whoopi Goldberg, LeVar Burton, Meg Ryan, Jeff Goldblum, Tim Curry, Ed Asner, John Ratzenberger, Martin Sheen, and Dean Stockwell, the series was met with critical acclaim and became massively popular amongst youth. The series was No. 1 in Nielsen ratings for five consecutive years, was syndicated in 220 U.S. markets and aired in over 100 countries. Pyle required that the series' merchandising was made sustainably.

In 1989, Pyle and Ted Turner together conceived the series Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Pyle and her team, which consisted of Nick Boxer and Thom Beers, intended to produce an animated series that could yield a generation of environmentally-literate youth. The characters on the show became the world's first eco-superheroes. Pyle based the five Planeteers on real-life people who inspired her during the show's pre-production, in 1989.

While at CNN/TBS, Pyle introduced and oversaw environmental coverage, including Earth Matters, a daily environmental news show which premiered on CNN in 1981 and launched "CNN's World Report", which featured international journalists presenting breaking news from their countries vis-à-vis their local perspective. With Jane Fonda serving as host, Pyle executive produced the award-winning show People Count which put a face on global issues addressed by a series of United Nations summits.

Barbara Pyle first met Ted Turner in 1980 when she was photographing the America's Cup for Time magazine and the media mogul was helming the Courageous for the last time. Turner, impressed with Pyle's media savvy and commitment to environmental issues, hired her as Vice President of Environmental Policy at TBS. Pyle served over two decades in this role and was responsible for creation of the Turner Environment Division and setting the company's environmental broadcast agenda.

In 1980, after she read The Global 2000 Report to the President commissioned by Jimmy Carter's presidential administration, Pyle committed herself to bring global concerns to the forefront of public attention. Pyle has worked with and built collaborative relationships between major environmental groups such as the United Nations Environment Programme, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, and Natural Resources Defense Council.

In July 1971, Pyle and Dr. Horace Hale Harvey III opened the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health in New York City. The clinic was, at the time, the largest free-standing abortion facility in the world and the opening was scheduled to coincide with the first day that abortion up to 24 weeks became legal under a newly enacted New York State law. Pyle served as the clinic's first administrator.

Barbara Y. E. Pyle (born August 22, 1947) is an American executive producer, filmmaker and environmental activist. She co-created and served as the executive producer on the animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers and is the founder of the Captain Planet Foundation. She is currently a supporter and driving force for the Planeteer Movement, a worldwide effort of fans of the series to raise environmental awareness, based on the values of its main character, Captain Planet.

Barbara continues to attend high-level conferences, host meetups and introduce real-life Planeteers to each other to sustain the movement's growth. With half a million fans and dozens of Planeteer Networks worldwide, Pyle sees the movement as a force for positive change in the 21st century.