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Storytelling for Today’s Climate
Story support for the age of climate change
Our Offerings
Consulting
Explore Climate in Any Story
Uncover how climate change can show up authentically in any contemporary story, regardless of genre—from brief mentions to a climate-driven plot. Our team of working Hollywood writers and rock-star climate experts is excited to support you.
Workshops
Experience the Climate Lens™
Book a one-hour workshop to learn how to hold up the Climate Lens™ to your current projects, or walk away with new story ideas—through case studies, a mock writers’ room, and more.
Playbook
Find Story Inspiration and Climate Expertise
Our Playbook for Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change is an open-source digital resource for portraying climate change on-screen—from character profiles to climate psychology to the latest science.
Research
Audiences Want More Climate Acknowledgments
People want to see climate change on-screen—and we have the data to prove it. Read our groundbreaking research with USC Annenberg’s Norman Lear Center and find out how we can change the narrative together.
Our Clients
We work with writers, showrunners, studios, streamers, and industry organizations on shows and films.
Meet Our Experts
You want your climate portrayals to be as accurate and authentic as possible; we work with 100+ leading climate experts who will help you with that. From scientists to futurists to psychologists, from activists to adventurers, these experts have insider info and are passionate about making it available to storytellers like you.
Sarah Eagle Heart
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.
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Dr. Peter Kalmus
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Dr. Kate Marvel
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Dr. Britt Wray
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Amy Westervelt
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Favianna Rodriguez
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Abigail Dillen
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Mike McHargue
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Quinn Emmett
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Thimali Kodikara
she/her/hersSarah Eagle Heart
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she/her/hersRev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.
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he/him/hisOur Mission
The most important thing is to do what you do best: tell a damn good story. We’ll help with the rest.
Anna Jane Joyner
Founder, Good Energy
Good Energy is a nonprofit story consultancy for the age of climate change.
We support TV and film creators in telling wildly entertaining stories that honestly reflect the world we live in now—a world that’s in a climate crisis. We aim to make it as easy as possible to portray the climate crisis on-screen in entertaining and artful ways, in any storyline, across every genre.
The only thing we know for sure about the future is that we are all going there together — and we’re taking with us our hopes, our fears, our appetites, our creativity, our capacity for love and our predilection to cause pain. These are the same tools that storytellers have been using since the beginning of time.
Scott Z. Burns
Writer, Director, Producer
Funding Partners
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Land Acknowledgement
This was written in what is present-day Los Angeles, the ancestral land of the Tongva, Chumash, and Kizh tribes; in Joshua Tree, the ancestral land of the Serrano, Cahuilla, and the Chemehuevi; and on the Gulf Coast of Alabama, the ancestral home of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. We honor the estimated 350,000 Indigenous individuals whose land was stolen to become what is now California, and the estimated 125,000 removed from their home in the Southeast. Storytelling is an opportunity to speak truth to the history and current reality of colonization and violence that define this country. It is a chance to imagine—to create—a different story for the future, in which this stolen land is returned to Native stewardship. The more we tell this story, the more it becomes real.
