The Family Dinner

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About The Family Dinner

Publisher Web Link: http://grandcentrallifeandstyle.com/

Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time

Laurie David, the producer of An Inconvenient Truth, wants to help overwhelmed families sit down to dinner, and provides all the reasons, recipes, and fun ways to do so.

Research has proven that everything we worry about as parents—from drugs to alcohol, to obesity, and academic achievement—can all be improved by the simple act of eating and talking together around the table. Laurie has written a practical, inspirational, fun (and, of course, green) guide to the most important hour in any parent’s day. Chock-fullchapters include: Over 75 kid-approved recipes; tips on teaching green values; conversation starters; games to play to help even the shyest family member become engaged; ways to express gratitude; the family dinner after divorce (hint: keep eating together) and much more. Filled with moving memories and advice from the country’s experts and teachers, this book will get everyone away from electronic screens. (http://grandcentrallifeandstyle.com/)

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About Laurie David

Author Web Link: http://www.lauriedavid.com/bio.html

Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time

Laurie wants to help America’s overwhelmed families sit down to dinner in her newest book The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time. The Family Dinner is an inspirational, practical -- and, of course green -- guide to the most important hour in your family’s day, dinnertime. With input from more than 50 experts in everything from parenting to poetry to pasta, this book is chock full of fantastic family approved recipes, dinner conversation starters, ways to express gratitude, green values for the kitchen and a whole lot more. The Family Dinner will help families cut through the fog of computers, television, texting and busy schedules and will help overwhelmed parents re-discover the joy of this time honored ritual.

Over the past decade, Laurie has produced several projects to 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. 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” and it received the prestigious Green Earth Book Award in the nonfiction category.

Laurie is a producer of the 2006 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.

Laurie executive produced the TBS comedy special, Earth to America!, which featured Tom Hanks, Will Ferrell, Steve Martin and Jack Black among many others, airing on November 20, 2005 to millions of viewers. The show garnered rave reviews and sparked hundreds of TV, print and radio stories about global warming.

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.

In 2005 Laurie founded the Stop Global Warming Virtual March at www.stopglobalwarming.org. With over 1 million marchers, StopGlobalWarming.org engages 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.

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 several 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 also a featured blogger and consultant for 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,” and, earlier that year, she was awarded NRDC’s 2006 Forces for Nature award both for her tireless work to stop 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, Laurie 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, Laurie became vice president of comedy development for a division of Fox Broadcasting and developed sitcoms for Twentieth Century Television.

Laurie resides in Los Angeles with her two daughters. (http://www.lauriedavid.com/)

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