The e2 series debuted in 2006 with its first season of design, introducing viewers to the burgeoning sustainability movement among architects and designers worldwide. Narrated by Brad Pitt and filmed in HD, e2 Design, Season 1 covers: the rise of sustainable skyscrapers and apartment towers in New York; community-based sustainable construction in Sonora, Mexico and Austin, Texas; the promotion of green building practices by Chicago's city government; recycling construction waste from Boston's "Big Dig" project; China's determination to improve its building practices and the ecological risks it poses if it does not; and the environmental leadership of three extraordinary architects - Kenneth Yeang, William MccDonough, and Werner Sobek.