ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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LAURIE DAVID is a global warming activist
and the producer of the Academy Award-winning film An
Inconvenient
Truth and the HBO documentary
Too Hot Not to Handle. She
executive-produced
Earth to America!, a primetime comedy special
about global warming, which earned her a Gracie Allen Award for Individual
Achievement. A trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Laurie
founded the Stop Global Warming Virtual March with Senator John McCain
and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. She was the first-ever guest editor of the
green May 2006 and 2007 issues of Elle magazine. In 2006 Laurie published
her first book, the bestseller
Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is
You. She also launched the Stop Global Warming College Tour with
Sheryl Crow, on which they visited college campuses throughout the Southeast
on a biodiesel tour bus.
Laurie David received the prestigious Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers
Guild of America and a Humanitas Prize Special Award for
An Inconvenient
Truth. She has been honored with the Audubon Society's Rachel Carson
Award, the Feminist Majority's Eleanor Roosevelt Award, the NRDC's 2006
Forces for Nature Award, and by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Riverkeeper organization.
Laurie, a regular blogger on the Huffington Post, has been featured on
such shows as
Oprah, Good Morning America, and on CNN and has
been profiled in numerous magazines, including Vanity Fair, which called
her the "Bono of climate change." She lives in Los Angeles, California.
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CAMBRIA GORDON is an Award-winning former
advertising copywriter who now pursues children's writing full-time. Her
credits include a nonfiction book,
Fifty Nifty Crafts to Make With
Things Around the House, and an episode for the award-winning animated
Disney Channel series
Madeline.
Cambria is an active environmentalist and lives with her husband and their
three children in Los Angeles, California.