We spotted "visionary designer" Wolf Hibertz's green-heralded plan to build a self-sustaining ocean city in several eco-blogs lately; unfortunately that newsbit is actually from a 1997 issue of Popular Mechanics. No new progress in ten years, you can bet the project's dead.
Still, we kept thinking we'd seen the project before, even earlier than the '90s. Then it hit us--anyone remember Stromberg's ocean lair in The Spy Who Loved Me? Not only was it self-sustaining, it could pop up and down whenever he hit the button.
Which got us thinking, weren't a bunch of James Bond villains rather "green?" Blofeld built his headquarters inside a dormant volcano in You Only Live Twice, saving tons of lumber and construction materials.
Max Zorin cruised around in a blimp in A View to a Kill, creating zero emissions while he plotted to destroy Silicon Valley.
Kananga's lair in Live and Let Die was carved from a natural grotto, with every effort made to preserve (and even feed!) the sharks who lived there.
Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun was into solar power--he spent the whole movie trying to get his hands on the Solex Agitator, which could harness the power of the sun.
So yeah, maybe we haven't heard from Hibertz in ten years because he's been working for SPECTRE.
As for Bond himself, how green is he? Kind of a toss-up: he's saved the world a couple times, but he also drives an Aston Martin Vanquish--that beast gets only 13 miles to the gallon.
If the Greenhouse gases don't kill you, I will!
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