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Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You! (Speaker's Corner) [Paperback]

Laurie David (Author), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Afterword), Larry David (Foreword)
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September 13, 2006
Global warming has become the most important issue for the future of our planet, dominating news headlines and policy discussions. Stop Global Warming turns headlines into action, providing testimony of leading environmental activist Laurie David's own passionate work and showing how and why others (particularly young people) should get involved in this and other environmental issues. In accessible and inspiring prose, David explains that Global warming is not an opinion but a scientific reality, one that policy makers by and large have failed to address. Interspersed throughout the text, short statements by celebrities such as John Mayer and Jack Johnson, along with average Americans, will reinforce why halting global warming is so important to our future. An important book that will cause you to think more about our planet and change your habits, Stop Global Warming is required reading for the 21st century.

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"...a handy pocket guide to curbing climate change...a must-read for everyone...pass it on to everyone you know." -- Treehugger, November 22, 2006

"...best chapters is "What Can You Do," chock-full of ideas that the average person can put into immediate effect." -- The Portland Tribune, December 7, 2006

"...brief, yet powerful book that is a must-read for all of us...will make a great stocking stuffer..." -- Making Waves, October 2006

"...part autobiography, part step-by-step manual to combating climate change." -- The Guardian, November 11, 2006

"...shows you how surprisingly simple it can be to protect the environment." -- Self, December, 2006

"America's denial about global warming...couldn't hold up under the force that is Laurie David." -- Glamour, December, 2006

"Environmental activist Laurie David has...brought unprecedented focus to the global-warming debate." -- Marie Claire, December, 2006

...this is a serious, impassioned book that is a plea to help build a movement to stop global warming. -- BuzzFlash.com, October 5, 2006

About the Author

Laurie David is the founder of StopGlobalWarming.org, the Virtual March to Stop Global Warming, a bipartisan Internet campaign launched with Senator John McCain and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council, David was producer of the Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth and creator of the award-winning comedy special Earth to America!

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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing (September 13, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 155591621X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1555916213
  • Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.5 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200,207 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Producer and author Laurie David 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. A producer of the 2006 Academy Award winner An Inconvenient Truth Laurie wrote the bestselling book, Stop Global Warming: The Solution is You! and The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming, co-authored with Cambria Gordon.



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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Inspiration as to What EACH of Us Can Do!, January 19, 2007
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Susan Goewey (Vienna, VA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You! (Speaker's Corner) (Paperback)
I picked up this book at the library's NEW section...What a find! Ever since I saw Gore's movie, I've been very troubled about Global Warming...it trumps all other problems on the planet if it destroys the planet! (duh!). The other day I answered a telephone poll as to "what do you feel is the biggest problem facing the world today?" When I answered "Global Warming!" The pollster sounded surprised, like she'd never heard that as an answer before and said, "What?" Global Warming, I repeated. "I'm sorry, did you say, you think _'Global Warming'_ is the biggest problem facing the World today?" "Yes!" I said. Geez, is that so far fetched?
So obviously, despite Gore's fascinating and convincing movie...it still needs more publicity, which, thankfully Laurie David continues to provide in this gem of a book.
My daughter asked the other day, "Mom, what can we do to stop global warming?" Well, now I can quickly offer some tangible things beyond the usual...recycle, drive less, walk more, turn off the lights...because Laurie offers so much more insight as well as many more ideas. She concedes that if we do one thing thinking we're helping, like request paper(uh oh, it cuts down virgin trees)or plastics (Akk! they're made with petroleum oil), she points out alternative consequences can be just as bad on the environment-- so most of all we need to demand recycling be made easy for EVERYONE.
We need to demand leadership from politicians to look for real, long term solutions! Since she wrote the book, thank God we have a new (dem.) chair of the Senate's Environment & Public Works Committe who recognizes the reality of Global Warming. The last, Sen. Jim Inofe(R-OK) refused to accept the science, he instead "led" the Committee into waiting for more evidence! Which sounds a lot like President Bush, who is too closed minded to even watch Gore's movie.
As Laurie notes: Republicans/Democrats/Independents, we ALL need to take action or we will destroy much of the earth in as little as (she predicts to help us get off our butts) 5 more years (judging by the faster- than-expected-rate the polar ice caps are melting).
Laurie, if you're reading this review (and all other interested in finding solutions to the CO2 emmission asap) PLEASE check out a book on the Combustion Engine by Edwin Black. Laurie, I had the same SUV revelation you described when I heard him speak about his new book on CSPAN radio the other evening. But you, Laurie have the power/credibility/connections to do for him what you did for Al Gore's slide show. It could be another, even higher, high point of your career...and just might save the Earth.
I mean who has heard of Edwin Black? Obviously he does not have the name recognition or get the publicity Gore does, though he's been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize 10 times.
Anyway, Black tells FASCINATING, little known tales --going all the way back to ancient civilization--as to how we came to our oil dependency for transportation in the first place which gives so much power to middle eastern states (you may have read in Fast Food Nation how corporate greed destroyed California's clean, cheap trolley system? But did you know that the _original_ clean electric "horseless carriage" invention was discarded in favor of noisy, dirty gasoline burning engines because the dirty, faster going engines were considered more "manly" and it took brute strength to crank them... while the sissy "ladies" electric cars started with just the touch of a button?
And that Thomas Edison was collaborating with Ford on a clean transportation solution and was on the verge of introducing it to clean up all the soot cars were leaving everywhere, when rivals, who favored the dirty engines for economic reasons, burned down (despite fireproof walls!) workshop!
But most important, Black has a very plausible Green Fleet idea: if corporate fleets (Fed Ex, UPS, Postal Services) DEMAND electric cars--he warns that hybrids only postpone the problem--that are NOT oil dependent--the motor companies will build them so fast our heads will spin!
Please check it out, Laurie. It is such an inspiration to me that you've done so much to educate me and millions like me who didn't have a clue.
Thanks for this book and for putting Global Warming on the front page! Please keep going! (P.S. I loved your dedication. I guess we all need to thank Larry David for telling you it would be "Easier to change the world than me!" :)
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Weak effort, December 30, 2006
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This review is from: Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You! (Speaker's Corner) (Paperback)
We recently heard Laurie David speak and purchased this book later. I can't say we got much out of it. First, I guess you can say it is compact, but that is because there are only 54 pages of content. Second, if you've not lived in a cave for the last year, you have to be somewhat familiar with the basic issue of global warming. I recognize that is largely due to Laurie's role in An Inconvenient Truth, a defining event in raising public conciousness.

Short advice, spend you money on a donation to NRDC or buy World Changing and skip this book.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars too basic, March 19, 2007
This review is from: Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You! (Speaker's Corner) (Paperback)
I had been hoping for some more creative ideas. The book was fairly preachy about the need to combat global warming but since I was already concerned enough to buy the book I didn't need to be further convinced. Plus, the solutions the book proposed were so basic that unless energy conservation was a totally new concept to the reader there was nothing new. I was very disapointed and if it wasn't for the energy I would use in sending the book back I wouldn't have kept it.
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