Laurie David
Producer and Author
Laurie David is devoted to stopping global warming. She founded the Stop Global Warming Virtual March at www.stopglobalwarming.orgwith 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 she has produced several other projects that bring the issue of global warming into mainstream popular culture – including authoring the bestselling book, Stop Global Warming: The Solution is You! and The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming, co-authored with Cambria Gordon, written for kids of all ages, which received the prestigious the Green Earth Book Award in the nonfiction category. The New York Times writes about the Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming, “…I’ve never seen a more comprehensive explanation of the phenomenon in so few words.” 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, and a rare Humanitas Prize Special Award. She also executive produced the HBO documentary Too Hot Not to Handle, which won a Gracie Allen Award,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 raising awareness and inspiring students to become part of the movement to stop global warming.
Declared the Bono of climate change by Vanity Fair, Laurie has been featured several times on the The Oprah Winfrey Show and the 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, 2007 and 2008 issues 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. In the past two years, 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 2008 Laurie received a U.S. EPA Climate Protection Award for her efforts to spread awareness about the importance stopping global warming. In 2007 she was awarded the Feminist Majority’s Eleanor Roosevelt Award, Audubon Society’s Rachel Carson Award and National Wildlife Federation’s Conservation Achievement Award Special Achievement. 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 was awarded 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.
An Inconvenient Truth Awards and Accolades
Phoenix Film Critics Society
WINNER – Best Documentary
Toronto Film Critics Association
NOMINEE – Best Documentary Feature
Producers Guild of America
WINNER – Stanley Kramer Award
Southeastern Film Critics Association
WINNER – Best Documentary
Dallas Fort-Worth Film Critics
WINNER – Best Documentary
Alliance of Women Journalists
NOMINEE – Don’t Stick Your Head in the Sand Award
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
WINNER – Best Documentary
Critics’ Choice Awards
NOMINEE – Best Documentary Feature
NOMINEE – Best Song
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association
WINNER – Best Documentary
New York Film Critics Online
WINNER – Best Documentary
Los Angeles Film Critics
WINNER – Best Documentary
Grammy Awards
NOMINEE – Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or other Visual: ‘I Need To Wake Up” (Melissa Etheridge)
National Board of Review
WINNER – Best Documentary
11th Annual Satellite Awards
NOMINEE – Best Motion Picture, Documentary
California League of Conservation Voters
HONOREE – Leadership Award: Davis Guggenheim, Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, Lesley Chilcott
HONOREE – Byron Sher Lifetime Achievement |
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Award: The Honorable Al Gore
Producers Guild of America
WINNER – Stanley Kramer Award
*Awards Ceremony: Jan 20
Environmental Media Association
WINNER – Best Documentary
International Documentary Association
WINNER – Pare Lorentz Award
*Awards Ceremony: Dec 8
16th Annual Gotham Awards
NOMINEE – Best Documentary Feature
*Winners announced Nov 29.
Haugesund Film Festival (Norway)
WINNER – Andreas Prize
Melbourne International Film Festival
WINNER – Best Documentary
Brisbane International Film Festival
WINNER – Best Documentary
International Visual Communication Association – UK
WINNER – Clarion Award
*This news is strictly embargoed until the Clarion Awards ceremony on Sept. 29.
Film Advisory Board
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE – Special Honor: Documentary
Humanitas Prize
WINNER – Special Prize
Maui Film Festival
WINNER (Tied w/ Heart of the Game) – Best Documentary Feature
Sydney International Film Festival
WINNER – Audience Prize – Best Documentary Feature
Cannes Film Festival
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Praise for
The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming
by Laurie David & Cambria Gordon
A Kirkus Best Book of 2007
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2007
(Children’s Nonfiction)
A Rocky Mountain News Best Children’s Book of 2007
Green Earth Book Award Winner (Non-Fiction Category)
A CCBC Choices Selection 2008
Green Prize for Sustainable Literature
(Santa Monica Public Library)
“I’ve never seen such a comprehensive explanation of the
[global warming] phenomenon in so few words.”
- The New York Times Book Review
(Reviewed by Hank Green,
editor-in-chief of EcoGeek.org)
“The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming…brings knotty matters
down to manageable scope for youngsters ages 8 and up.”
- Metropolitan Home Magazine
“It’s easy being green with Laurie David and Cambria Gordon’s informative book,
which helps kids understand what’s happening to our environment.”
“Funny and full of tips, the book informs—and empowers—kids and adults alike.”
“The heart of the book is in making the concept of
global warming understandable for your kids.”
“Four well-organized sections define the issue and give examples of consequences
in the physical world, extinctions in the animal world and what young people can do.
A humorous tone, eye-catching graphics and celebrity connections lend pizzazz
to this volume, but there is plenty of substance, too.”
“Dynamic layouts and abundant illustrations and photos enliven the passionate
words—lush, full-bleed photographs emphasize the high stakes by portraying
both the splendor of the natural world and the devastating effects of climate change.
Printed in soy ink on recycled paper, this engaging and accessible guide, ideal as a
gift or book-club option, inspires commitment to the planet.”
- Publishers Weekly, starred review
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