04/08/2010
Pierce Brosnan: Bond, James (green-hearted) Bond!
(GOOD MOE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE TURNING GREEN...GOOD TO LOVE ECOLOGY AND OUR ENVIRONMENT)
The world is certainly not enough for this man, for he believes in improving it in whatever little way he can.
Meet the very dashing Pierce Brosnan, who shot to fame in the early eighties as the lead character in televise ion series, Remington Steel and then when on to maintain that popularity graph though his work in movies like Dante's Peak, The Thomas Crown Affair and most importantly as the sexy secret agent 007 aka James bond.
More recently, Brosnan has been in the news for his charitable work and environmental activism. An outspoken environmental activist, he was named 'Best-dressed Environmentalist' by the Sustainable Style Foundation in 2004.
Aware of issues such as nuclear disarmament at the age of tender age of nine, when worldwide condemnation of the 1962 US nuclear tests in Nevada made international news, Brosnan has been actively involved with and participated in news conferences in Washington, DC to help Greenpeace draw attention to the issue.
He even reportedly boycotted the French premier of his James Bond flick, GoldenEye, to support Greenpeace's protest against the French nuclear testing program.
Pierce Brosnan and his wife Keely Shaye Smith are committed environmentalists, with interests that include clean air and water campaigns, marine mammal and wetland protection, and opposing environmentally disruptive projects.
From 1997 to 2000, Brosnan and his wife worked with the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) in the US, to stop a proposed salt factory from being built at Laguna San Ignacio on Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
Their unprecedented victory prevented the destruction of the last pristine breeding ground for the Pacific grey whale.
The couple along with Oscar winning actress Halle Berry and Cindy Crawford successfully fought the Cabrillo Port Liquefied Natural Gas facility that was proposed off the coast of Malibu and would cause damage to the marine life there.
The LNG project posed significant and potentially irreversible negative impacts to the coast, the environment and safety of the community. The State Lands Commission eventually denied the lease to build the terminal.
Brosnan is also a gifted painter. He trained early on as an artist, but later shifted to theatre; during his first wife's terminal illness, he withdrew from acting to be with her and took up painting again for therapeutic reasons, producing colourful landscapes and family portraits.
Many of his works have been sold to raise money for various environmental, children's and women's health charities.
In 1997, Green Cross International President Mikhail Gorbachev presented Pierce with an Environmental Leadership Award, citing him as a truly committed leader whose bold actions and clever voice have been instrumental in marine mammal protection, as well as that of fragile ecosystems.
In 2008, Brosnan and his wife were inducted Into Environmental Hall Of Fame. According to reports the couple has donated more than $1 million to various environmental initiatives.
Brosnan has invested $9 million in building a mansion, powered by solar energy and featuring a host of other green eco-friendly qualities. The home, located on the Malibu beachfront, is equipped with an outdoor pool and guest cabana as well as a heating system, all powered up by the sun.
Other features of the house intended to reduce its carbon footprint include water recycling, a solar powered $400,000 waste-disposal system, use of non-glare, insulated glass windows, helping out with climate control and an intelligent lighting system that darken rooms if left unoccupied for more than 5 minutes, saving energy.
Well, this Bond is surely 'green-hearted'!
Source: India Syndicate
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