Should a C-Section Earn You a Bad Eco-Grade?

Madeline Holler — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:01:00 GMT

I was super excited when I saw the feature Celebrity Birthing Footprints over on the eco-fashion website Sprig. All the recent big-name baby producers are represented in their slideshow (as well as a few smaller ones -- hey, Ethan Hawke's lady just gave birth). And there's nothing I love more than taking down environmentally self-righteous celebs, whose carbon/trash/consumer footprints alone are waaaaaaaaay huger than an entire new housing development's silly Hummer-driving, McMansion-erecting, meat-eating suburbanites.

Alas, the piece disappoints. First, none of these celebrities is doing anything more than the rest of us to go green -- even superficially. Second, the little project is inconsistent -- there's no rubric for how they're determining letter grades.

Plus, I think I uncovered this dirty little secret: they're dinging celebrities who got c-sections! (I mean, maybe c-sections are melting polar icecaps, but then they need to point that out.)

Summary:

A's went out to Jessica Alba, Jack Black and Soleil Moon-Frye. Oddly, Jack Black gets the A for saying if he were president, each car in the country would have a solar panel on the roof. (Wow! So engaged!)

Know who gets a C? Tori Spelling, whom they congratulate for using cloth diapers. But she had a c-section, so I suppose she's lucky she didn't flunk.

Other C's, a D and a D- go out to Jamie Lynn Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez and Angelina Jolie (who's international birthing needs cancel out any recycling and Prius-driving they may do around the Chateau). Anyway, you tell me, what do these baby-makers have in common? That's right: surgical birth.

My conspiracy theory unravels with Nicole Ritchie. She earned a C+, but from what I can find online, she gave birth vaginally. So why the low grade? Toxic oversized sunglasses?

Here's what I would have liked to see: more talk about these very rich people committing to smaller homes, smaller cars, less air travel (please stop going to Vegas for the weekend, Christina), lower water use, lower consumption overall (for God's sake, rewear something once in a while). And, yes, maybe solar panels as far as the eye can see (though not on the roof of the car. Do you know what that would do to the gas mileage?)

Strollerderby : angelina jolie and brad pitt

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