A warming tale of geothermal efficiency

You save the earth; I’ll save money and we’ll both be good, we can sit out on the porch and you can have a latte, while I have a cold beverage.”

So says a climate-change denier after being won round by part of an environmentalist's viewpoint. The central film of the campaign, Energy We Can All Agree On, was created for the Geothermal Exchange Organization (GEO), a non-profit promoting geothermal heating and cooling systems. 

Directed by Ben Steinbauer and produced by The Bear, it follows the slightly mentalist environmentalist Eric Caspian-Johnson Garcia-Marquez (actor Eric Satterberg), as he heads into America’s heartland to speak with real climate-change skeptics (non-actors) about the benefits of switching to geothermal energy. At first, it appears to be taking a gentle swipe at hippy-dippy, yoga bunny eco-warriors, then at climate-change deniers but ends up just showing how energy efficiency can work for both parties. 

Once Eric shows the deniers the undeniable truth about how much money they've wasted over the years on fossil fuels, they're ready to switch, and – almost – make friends... A recent Yale University study found climate change is the single most polarising issue among American voters, even more so than abortion and gun control.