How green is green enough? When it comes to Al Gore, some say he's done his part to fight the good fight against global warming, evidenced by winning a Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy Award -- so we should just leave him alone. Others wonder just exactly how he can reconcile his lavish lifestyle with his message of impending climate doom. First, it was his energy-hogging mansion, then the controversy over his jet setting, now it's his 100ft "green" houseboat.Is Al Gore yet another TV evangelist, living a contradictory double life? To be fair, he did name his 100' house boat on Center Hill Lake in Tennessee the "Bio Solar One" -- which I take to mean that it's mostly powered by biodiesel and solar energy -- a good start. It's apparently been called the "Toyota Prius of boats" by it's manufacturer. I myself would call it the "Hybrid Chevy Tahoe of titanic luxury houseboats." But hey, do we really want to split hairs here?
It's much more interesting to ponder exactly how accountable a supposedly green celebrity needs to be in order to keep their credibility in tact. Do they get a pass when they're guilty of greenwashing?
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