Woody Harrelson apparently forgot his vegan shoes and belt as part of his Cannes Film Festival ensemble last week. When his assistants couldn’t find replacements for them, he had the accessories flown to France. Says Ecorazzi:

“Now, in the scheme of things, having an extra pair of shoes and a belt on an overnight FedEx plane that was bound for France anyways is not going to kill a polar bear. But it’s the environmentally insensitive request from someone who truly lives the green lifestyle that has us puzzled. And that’s a first coming from someone like Harrelson.”

We won’t take all of Woody’s green points away since he does do a lot of great work for the environment and the plane was France-bound anyway. We did, however, calculate the carbon footprint of Woody’s globe trotting vegan accessories for this particular flight via chooseclimate.org in order to put the trip into some carbon perspective:

Your journey required 734 pounds of fuel. This amount…

**is about 4.9 times an average person’s weight
**has a volume of approximately 11 gallons.
**makes 4401 kW-hrs energy when burnt, as much as the electricity used by eight 60W lightbulbs lit continuously for one year, or the food eaten by 4 people in one year.
**contains as much carbon as all the air above 181 m2 of the earth’s surface, or as a typical tree about 46 feet tall.

Our shoes might not always have to travel by air, but occasionally we do. and find out how to create carbon offsets for your own airplane travel here.

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