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Laurie Ellen David (née Lennard; born March 22, 1958) is an American environmentalism, producer, and writer. She produced the Academy Award–winning An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and partnered with Katie Couric to executive produce Fed Up (2014), a film about the causes of obesity in the United States. She serves as a trustee on the Natural Resources Defense Council and a member of the Advisory Board of the Children's Nature Institute and is a contributing to The Huffington Post.
In 2007, David retained nearly half of their net worth following their divorce. She married Robert Thorpe in 2012.
David also produced several comedy specials for HBO, Showtime, MTV, and Fox Television. Upon moving to Los Angeles, she became vice president of comedy development for a division of Fox Broadcasting and developed sitcoms for 20th Century Fox Television. After leaving to raise her daughters, she was one of the producers of An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Academy Award.
Aside from the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, David produced HBO's Too Hot Not to Handle (a documentary on the effects of climate change in the U.S.), which aired on April 22, 2006. She appeared in Big Ideas for a Small Planet, an environmentalist documentary series on the Sundance Channel.
In a 2006 interview with The Guardian, David admitted that owning two homes on opposite sides of the country and flying in a private jet several times per year is at odds with her message: "Yes, I take a private plane on holiday a couple of times a year, and I feel horribly guilty about it. I probably shouldn't do it. But the truth is, I'm not perfect. This is not about perfection. I don't expect anybody else to be perfect either. That's what hurts the environmental movement – holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away." - Laurie David interview
In October 2006, Glamour featured David as one of its "Women of the Year". She received the Gracie Allen Award for Individual Achievement from American Women in Radio & Television and the NRDC's 2006 Forces for Nature award for her work against global warming.
David has received numerous other awards and honors, including the Producers Guild of America's Stanley Kramer Award and a Humanitas Prize Special Award. Her environmental work has been honored with the National Audubon Society's Rachel Carson Award in 2007, the Feminist Majority's Eleanor Roosevelt Award, and Bette Midler's Green Goddess Award in 2019.
She co-wrote a book on climate for kids, The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming. In 2021, she co-wrote Imagine It! A Handbook for a Happier Planet, published by Random House/Rodale.
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