Goodwill Hovering!
Sneer if you want. But when Gisele Bundchen decided … the day after being named a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme … to take up helicopter flying lessons, she established herself as my kind of environmentalist.
The Marie Antoinette kind. Hot and clueless. Boston Herald:
One day after she was named the United Nations advocate for environmental awareness, Gisele Bundchen was snapped down in Marshfield taking flying lessons in a fuel-guzzling helicopter. Way to lower that carbon footprint, Mrs. Brady!
Tom Brady’s bride, who has campaigned against Amazon deforestation and for sustainable development and even launched an environmentally friendly line of sandals, was spotted flying off in a gas-sucking Robinson R-44 chopper yesterday morning.
Shoreline Aviation prez Keith Douglass confirmed that Bundchen has been talking helicopter-flying lessons for about a month at Marshfield Airport. Apparently, Mrs. 12 wants to shorten her commute between Massachusetts - where she and Tom have set up housekeeping for football season - and NYC, where Gisele has most of her modeling assignments.
“She’s doing it for lots of reasons,” Douglass told the Track . “But mainly because of where she lives, she needs a helicopter.”
In case you’re keeping track, according to infinitehealthresources.com, a one-hour helicopter ride emits a whopping 466 pounds of CO2 per passenger. Although Gisele yesterday sent a minion out to inform the press that she would be “testing new and greener fuel” as part of her U.N. ambassadorship, choppers that use said fuel aren’t widely available - and they don’t have them at Shoreline Aviation.
BTW, the helicopter Gisele flew yesterday uses Avgas, a fuel the EPA has previously named as one of the most “significant sources of lead.” Ouch! Now there’s An Inconvenient Truth!
But oddly, no one at Al Gore’s Alliance For Climate Protection wanted to discuss Gi’s carbon footprint yesterday.
“We have no comment,” said a spokeswoman, who obviously cares NOTHING about the drowning polar bears!
No, they wouldn’t, would they. The best advice Al Gore Enterprises can offer is the example of sheer hubris. In order to save the planet, we had to destroy it!
Enough about Gore … not nearly supermodelly enough to interest me much in planet save-age, anyway. Back to Gisele. Go Gaia!
You know, she’s either going to be a feminist hero … for becoming a helicopter pilot while pregnant … or despised by all women … for managing to maintain an air of angular supermodality even with a bun in the oven. More likely both.
My only problem is, the Marshfield Airport is just down the road, and the wife reports that cute little blue helicopter was swooping and hovering over the neighborhood yesterday. As much as I applaud Bundchen’s decision to become a carbon Bigfoot/enviro spokesmodel, I’m not sure that combination of supermodelness and advanced pregnancy is what I want operating aircraft over my house.
Think globally, Gisele! … But do you have to act that locally?
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Topics: aircraft, supermodels
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:23 am on Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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September 22nd, 2009 at 9:08 am
Imparts a whole new meaning to the term “Hot LZ”…
sorry
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:56 pm
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