Laurie David

Laurie David

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Laurie David is devoted to stopping global warming. She founded the Stop Global Warming Virtual March at www.stopglobalwarming.org with Senator John McCain and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that is engaging religious leaders, sports figures, elected officials from all sides of the aisle, business leaders, and every day Americans to urge the United States to address the ticking time bomb that is global warming.

In addition to the Virtual March, Ms. David has produced several other projects that bring the issue of global warming into mainstream popular culture – including authoring The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming published by Scholastic in 2007 and the bestselling book, Stop Global Warming: The Solution is You!, The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming, co-authored with Cambria Gordon, is aimed at kids of all ages and is the lead fall 2007 title of Scholastic Books. She executive produced the comedy special, Earth to America! for TBS, which aired November 20, 2005 to millions of viewers and featured Tom Hanks, Will Ferrell, Steve Martin and Jack Black among many others. The show garnered rave reviews and sparked hundreds of TV, print and radio stories about global warming. She is a producer of the Academy Award winner An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film based on former Vice President Al Gore’s thirty years of research on global warming, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and at the Cannes Film Festival, and has been awarded the prestigious Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America, the Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary, a rare Humanitas Prize Special Award and a HBO documentary Too Hot Not to Handle on the effects of global warming in the United States, which aired on HBO April 22, 2006 and is now available on DVD. In the spring of 2007 Laurie launched the Stop Global Warming College Tour with Sheryl Crow, where they visited college campuses throughout the South East on a biodiesel tour bus and raised awareness and inspired students to become part of the movement to stop global warming.



Laurie was featured on the The Oprah Winfrey Show talking about global warming solutions and consulted and appeared on the groundbreaking Fox News one hour special The Heat is On, which aired in primetime on Fox, November 13, 2005. Laurie was the first ever guest editor of the May 2006 issue of Elle Magazine, which made history by being the first fashion magazine to devote an entire issue to the environment and print its pages on recycled paper. This was Elle’s highest selling May issue in fourteen years. In the past year, she has been profiled in People, Glamour, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, Self, Elle, Seed Magazine, Wired, House and Garden, Vanity Fair, Outside Magazine and The New York Times and appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNBC, NOW, Nightline Hardball, Joe Scarborough Country and The Martha Stewart Show. Laurie is a regular blogger on the Huffington Post.

In May 2007, Laurie received the Feminist Majority’s Eleanor Roosevelt Award and Audubon Society’s Rachel Carson Award. In October 2006, Ms. David was honored by and featured in Glamour Magazine as one of its “Women of the Year,” for her tireless mission to stop global warming. Earlier that year, she received the prestigious Gracie Allen Award for Individual Achievement by the American Women in Radio & Television and the NRDC’s 2006 Forces for Nature award for her work against global warming. In 2003, Ms. David was honored by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Riverkeeper organization. When presenting her with the award, Kennedy referred to Ms. David as his "environmental hero." That same year, Ms. David was honored by Los Angeles' Children's Nature Institute for her commitment to the environmental education of young children.

As a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council and a founding member of the Detroit Project, Ms. David has spear-headed numerous public education and action campaigns urging Congress and auto-makers to raise fuel efficiency standards and make higher mileage cars. She has been an outspoken promoter of hybrid vehicles since they were first available in the marketplace. With the Detroit Project she produced several television commercials that helped ignite a national debate about gas guzzling SUVs and how driving these impacts our national security and makes us more dependant on oil. Since they aired, SUV sales have steadily declined as the popularity of hybrid vehicles continues to explode. She has chaired many major Los Angeles fundraising events and raised millions of dollars for the environment.

In January of 2004, the NRDC opened the David Family Environmental Action Center. Endowed by the David family, the Center encompasses much of Ms. David's passion and dedication for the environment and activism to protect it. It features museum-quality exhibits on issues such as global warming, ocean pollution, everyday toxins, and green building solutions.

Before working full time on environmental and political issues, Ms. David had a distinguished career in entertainment spanning two coasts. She began her career in New York City as a talent coordinator for the David Letterman show. Four years later she left to start her own management company, representing many of today's top comedians as well as comedy writers. She also produced several comedy specials for HBO, Showtime, MTV, and Fox Television. Upon moving to Los Angeles, Ms. David became vice president of comedy development for a division of Fox Broadcasting and developed sitcoms for Twentieth Century Television.

Blog Entries by Laurie David

GM's Dark Ages Approach to Global Warming

35 Comments | Posted February 25, 2008 | 04:49 PM (EST)


General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz recently called global warming a "total crock of s--t." So much for intelligent leadership, but thanks for giving America a clear explanation of why your company is struggling with daily layoffs and market share implosion. Why does GM keep someone around who's still...

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Another Coal-Sponsored Debate Without Questions on Global Warming

128 Comments | Posted February 22, 2008 | 12:11 PM (EST)


Last night's Democratic debate in Texas was sponsored (once again) by polluting coal interests, whose laughable ads about pie-in-the-sky "clean coal" littered CNN's debate coverage. Gee, what a surprise then that no questions were asked about global warming in the state that is the number one emitter of CO2 emissions....

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Why Paul McCartney Wants Me to Eat My Veggies

106 Comments | Posted January 15, 2008 | 05:59 AM (EST)


Something I've been waiting for my entire life has just happened. I've been a huge Beatles fan for decades and, in fact, my very first display of activism was not on behalf of a cause, but on behalf of them. When I was 12, I was so obsessed with the...

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Dispatch From A Mojave Desert Motel 6

9 Comments | Posted December 27, 2007 | 11:17 AM (EST)


If there is anyone out there wondering if I made it out of Iceland a couple weeks ago, the answer is yes. The freakish high winds finally calmed down long enough to fly home. But if you're wondering where I am right this minute you can find me in...

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I'm in Iceland. Don't Ask.

81 Comments | Posted December 14, 2007 | 08:44 PM (EST)


I'm in Iceland. OK, don't ask. I know it sounds crazy but it was on the way home from Oslo and someone said it's magical in the wintertime, just pack a lot of sweaters. Oh, and I could see a glacier! So I couldn't pass up the opportunity.

The ride...

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Now What?

94 Comments | Posted December 12, 2007 | 11:48 AM (EST)


The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has done its job over the course of the last two decades and given the world enough answers to generally conclude the science on global warming is now settled. To accomplish this, thousands of scientists, for years, donated their evenings, weekends, any free...

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Dispatch From Oslo: Nobel's Party Parade

5 Comments | Posted December 11, 2007 | 08:35 AM (EST)


The magic continued last night in the streets of Oslo as hundreds of people paraded up the main drag in front of the Grand Hotel, holding torch lights and thank you signs. The festival of lights is another Nobel tradition and it ended with Al Gore and Dr. Pachauri stepping...

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Dispatch From The Nobel Prize Ceremony

76 Comments | Posted December 10, 2007 | 10:31 AM (EST)


The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel committee pulled no punches today at the opening ceremonies of the 2007 prize presentations in Oslo. Calling on the world to act, he expressed the committee's deep concern about the future. "The Norwegian Nobel committee rarely raises its voice. Our style is largely sober....

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Toyota's Betrayal: Oh, What a (Crummy) Feeling!

80 Comments | Posted October 14, 2007 | 11:11 PM (EST)


Okay, I can't shake this. I'm taking it very personally. I'm bummed. I've been a Prius owner since 2000. I've promoted the hybrid in countless interviews. I badgered all my family and friends to buy them. The car was -- is -- brilliant, showcasing good design and efficiency, and...

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Gore's Nobel Prize Shines a Harsh Light on Those Doing Nothing on Global Warming

97 Comments | Posted October 12, 2007 | 04:58 PM (EST)


Congratulations to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). After this, will it still be possible for the United States government to continue to do nothing to address the urgent crisis of global warming? The awarding of the Nobel Peace prize, one of the world's most prestigious...

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Toyota's Green Bubble Bursting?

189 Comments | Posted October 9, 2007 | 10:36 PM (EST)


Toyota has gotten a lot of mileage out of portraying itself as the greenest, most fuel-efficient car company on the planet, and has reaped the benefits both financially and public relations wise. Yet they are careening toward becoming the most hypocritical car company on the planet by aggressively opposing desperately...

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The Children's Book That Has Global Warming Deniers Up in Arms

2 Comments | Posted September 19, 2007 | 10:43 AM (EST)


A global warming denier group is attacking The Down To Earth Guide to Global Warming, the new children's book I co-authored with Cami Gordon.

Our crime? It turns out one of the illustrations in the book was accidentally mislabeled. This has got the gang at the at the Science...

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This is the Face of Global Warming

Posted August 26, 2007 | 09:18 PM (EST)


As severe storms and the resultant flooding continue to batter the Midwest with deadly results, the media is filled with scary stories of the destruction and misery being inflicted. We see headlines about 300,000 Chicagoans without power, state of emergency declarations across four other states, dozens killed by storms...

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Putting the Green in Greensburg

Posted May 20, 2007 | 10:48 PM (EST)


As severe weather events become more and more frequent, we are constantly reminded of what we can lose in the blink of an eye. Last week, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius shared with me her eerie feelings upon seeing the footprint of an entire town erased in a matter of moments,...

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Catching the Tiger in the Act: Exxon Continues Its Reckless Campaign To Delay Action on Global Warming

Posted May 18, 2007 | 09:25 AM (EST)


Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson said about global warming in January, "It is clear that something is going on. It is not useful to debate (the issue) any longer."

If that's the new company line, Mr. Tillerson, then how do you explain the $2.1 million that ExxonMobil and its corporate foundation...

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To Our Three Daughters

Posted May 12, 2007 | 11:45 AM (EST)


We hope that by the time you read this, the solutions to global warming will be well under way. You already know from living with us, how concerned we are about this problem. Sometimes, we go over board with our reactions to everyday annoyances like over -packaged products, leaving lights...

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Extreme Weather: Once Every... Well, Every Day Lately

Posted May 10, 2007 | 08:10 AM (EST)


Extreme weather is becoming the norm. It's all but taken up residence in the Top Story slot of our evening news shows. Pretty soon we'll need another category: "extremely extreme weather."

Right now we've got four different kinds of extreme weather plaguing our country. Drought in...

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Social Change is a Journey

Posted April 20, 2007 | 10:07 AM (EST)


Heading towards Charlottesville, it was emotional just entering the Virginia border. That weighed heavy on all of us all day.

The roller coaster continues. Sheryl couldn't be with me tonight because of a previous commitment but luckily rock stars have rock star friends.

Tonight, I spoke outside the gorgeous...

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Dear Mr. Limbaugh

Posted April 13, 2007 | 10:36 AM (EST)


I don't even know where to begin with this one, but I will start by saying how embarrassed I am for you. It shocks me that someone with your stature could know so little about global warming.

First off, thanks for making the case for us. The things you mention...

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The Media's Moral Responsibility on Climate Science

Posted April 12, 2007 | 11:54 AM (EST)


Webster's Dictionary defines "sloppy" as something that is "careless" or "negligent." For the moment, I can't think of a better word to describe the background research CNBC reporter Joe Kernen did regarding the state of global warming science when Sheryl and I appeared on his program the other day.

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