Good Energy Playbook

Climate change is the biggest story of our time. And yet the vast majority of shows and films don’t reflect this reality on-screen.

Including climate in your work doesn't mean it has to be boring, forced or despairing. Instead, it a reveal complexities in characters and settings, add conflict, and unlock touching, funny, and surprising storylines. The result is rich, authentic, relevant stories that touch on something we're all seeing and feeling.

The Good Energy Playbook is a is a digital guide to weaving the climate crisis into any and every storyline, across every genre.

Created for writers, by writers, the playbook is for all creators—those who are steeped in the climate crisis and those who are learning about it. Whether you’re writing a screenplay, outlining a pilot, or working as an EP or assistant on the twenty-third season of a show, this Playbook will help you bring your climate stories to life.

The more climate stories there are—the more diversity of storytellers and genres—the better climate stories will become. It’s not any one person’s story to tell. — Dorothy Fortenberry, Writer and Producer, The Handmaid's Tale

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About Good Energy

Good Energy is a US-based nonprofit story consultancy that supports 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. Named “Hollywood’s climate advisor” by the New York Times, their mission is to make it as easy as possible to portray the climate emergency on-screen in entertaining and artful ways.