Laurie David may
not be as visible a green Hollywood figure as Brad Pitt, Daryl Hannah
or Leonardo DiCaprio, but she’s every bit as powerful – if not more so
– than her more famous counterparts. The producer of An Inconvenient
Truth is a longtime environmentalist who’s on a mission to spread
global warming awareness around the world.
Sprig called her “a walking eco-encyclopedia of green-living tips” and Grist
affirms that anyone who’s skeptical of Hollywood greenies would have a
change of heart after meeting her. With a background in the
entertainment industry booking comedians for David Letterman, David
changed her focus over the years to concentrate on the environmental
movement and has been a force of nature ever since.
Laurie David founded the Stop Global Warming Virtual March, wrote the best-selling book Stop Global Warming: The Solution is You!, co-authored The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming and executive produced HBO documentary Too Hot Not to Handle as well as comedy special Earth to America!. David also famously embarked on the Stop Global Warming College Tour
with Sheryl Crow in 2007, visiting college campuses in the Southeast to
raise awareness about global warming and inspire students to act.
She’s a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council and a founding member of The Detroit Project,
producing television commercials that helped change the tide of public
opinion about the use of gas-guzzling SUVs. In 2004 the NRDC opened the
David Family Environmental Action Center
in her honor, featuring museum-quality exhibits on global warming,
ocean pollution, everyday toxins, green building solutions and other
issues.
David has been particularly successful in reaching women with her
message of taking action on global warming. She has appeared multiple
times on Oprah to discuss environmental issues in front of a devoted
audience of millions, and was the first-ever guest editor of three
issues of Elle Magazine, which became the first fashion magazine to
devote an entire issue to the environment and print on recycled paper.
She also regularly writes for The Huffington Post.
Vanity Fair declared her to be ‘the Bono of climate change’, and
with a resume like hers, it’s not hard to see why. In the last two
years alone 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.
David has been honored with numerous awards including a U.S. EPA
Climate Protection Award, the Feminist Majority’s Eleanor Roosevelt
Award, Audubon Society’s Rachel Carson Award, the NRDC’s Forces of
Nature Award and National Wildlife Federation’s Conservation
Achievement Award.
