FEATURE • CRUISING WITH CURRIER
The plan for our "cruise" was to drive around, then make our way to the solar farm at Laurie and Bart's house. First, I should mention that I once stole Laurie's dog.
FEATURING LAURIE DAVID AND HER 2021 NISSAN LEAF
Cruising with Currier
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Story by Geoff Currier Photos by Jeremy Driesen
or our second issue of Blue Dot Living, I’m taking a cruise with environmental activist Laurie David in her Nissan Leaf. Before working full-time on environmental and political issues, Laurie worked as a talent coordinator in the entertainment business, which is where she met her first husband, Larry David. But her breakthrough moment came in 2006 when she was the executive producer for the film An Inconvenient Truth, starring Al Gore, for which she received an Academy Award. “Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of the film,” Laurie told me when we went for our ride. “Fifteen years ago, many people had not acknowledged that climate change was real, or that
humans were causing it. Because of that movie, every magazine and newspaper was doing a story about it. It shifted the entire paradigm on the issue.” More recently she’s produced social action documentaries including The Last Animals, Fed Up, and The Biggest Little Farm. She’s written two popular cookbooks, The Family Dinner and The Family Cooks, and most recently she’s co-written Imagine It! A Handbook for a Happier Planet with Heather Reisman (excerpted in this magazine, on page TK). Laurie and her husband, Bart Thorpe, now live full-time on their regenerative farm in Chilmark. I met Laurie at the Chilmark Store. She was wearing a pair of jeans, a striped pullover, and a stylish pair of green sunglasses. M A R T H A’ S V I N E YA R D / S U M M E R 2 0 2 1
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