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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Co-FounderZuyá Entertainment & Eagle Heart Collective

Mary Annaïse Heglar

she/her/hers
Climate Justice Writer

Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.

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President & CEOHip Hop Caucus

Dr. Peter Kalmus

he/him/his
Climate ScientistNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Dr. Kate Marvel

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Climate ScientistNASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Dr. Britt Wray

she/her/hers
Climate Mental Health ExpertStanford Medicine

Amy Westervelt

she/her/hers
Climate JournalistDrilled Media

Favianna Rodriguez

she/her/hers
Artist, Storyteller and Cultural StrategistCenter for Cultural Power

Abigail Dillen

she/her/hers
PresidentEarthjustice

Mike McHargue

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Writer, Science Advisor, World BuilderQuantum Spin Studios

Quinn Emmett

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Founder, Writer and HostImportant, Not Important

Thimali Kodikara

she/her/hers
Series Producer & Co-HostMothers Of Invention at DOC SOCIETY

Sarah Eagle Heart

she/her
Co-FounderZuyá Entertainment & Eagle Heart Collective

Mary Annaïse Heglar

she/her/hers
Climate Justice Writer

Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.

he/him/his
President & CEOHip Hop Caucus

Dr. Peter Kalmus

he/him/his
Climate ScientistNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Our 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

Bloomberg Philanthropies logo
Walton Family Foundation logo
Sierra Club Logo
Pop Culture Collab logo
Quadrivium logo
1Earth Fund logo
Doc Society logo
Rainin Foundation Logo
Climate Emergency Fund logo

Interested in Working Together? Book a Consultation

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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.