Fighter jet and Obama advisor and 767 jet and solving all of our problems at once and married to Climate Central founder but on a yacht in France with his girlfriend: The complicated life of carbon dioxide hero Eric Schmidt

Arianna Huffington, Wendy Schmidt And Eric Schmidt Honored At NRDC Event (VIDEO/PHOTOS)

On Monday evening, The Natural Resources Defense Council honored Wendy Schmidt, Eric Schmidt and Arianna Huffington at its 13th annual "Forces for Nature" benefit.

2008:  A New (Fighter) Jet for Google's Founders? - NYTimes.com

A company controlled by Google’s top executives, including its billionaire founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, appears to have added a new plane to its well-equipped fleet: a fighter jet, or more precisely a Dornier Alpha Jet. According to Wikipedia, the Alpha Jet is a a light attack jet and advanced trainer aircraft manufactured by Dornier of Germany and Dassault-Breguet of France.

The last time we checked on H211 L.L.C., the company that operates the private jets owned and used by Mr. Page, Mr. Brin and the chief executive, Eric Schmidt, was in October 2007. The company had just added a Boeing 757 to a fleet that already included a refurbished Boeing 767 and two Gulfstream V’s. All four planes had landing rights at Moffett Field, the NASA operated airfield that is a stone’s throw from the Google campus.

Google 767 Jet | Plane Nation

 Whеn thе news first came out, Larry Page suggested іt mіght bе used tο flу large groups οf people “tο places lіkе Africa,” whісh wουld bе “gοοd fοr thе world,” suggesting ѕοmе philanthropic purposes. Tο date, іt seems tο hаνе bееn used tο ferry a few key Google execs around tο sales аnd business meetings.

Gore/Alliance for Climate Protection: All-In for Plug-Ins

[2008]:  GOOGLE CEO ERIC SCHMIDT, member of Senator Obama's transition economic advisory board, weighed in on priorities. A long-time supporter of plug-in cars and of Google.org's RechargeIT project, he singles out plug-in cars as part of the solution for the grid. He said in the Saturday NY Times, "The strongest position I have taken from an economic point, with Senator Obama, now President-elect Obama, has been to try to solve all of our problems at once. And the easiest way to do that, at least in domestic policy, is by a stimulus program that rewards renewable energy and over time attempts to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy.

Climate Central

Wendy Schmidt is President of The Schmidt Family Foundation working to advance clean energy development and supporting the wiser use of natural resources. She established the foundation’s 11th Hour Project in 2005, and in 2007 was a founding board member of Climate Central, an organization that combines an expert media team with the work of experts using the newest science to measure and describe climate change.

Eric Schmidt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Schmidt "was a campaign advisor and major donor to Barack Obama, and when he announced he was leaving that perch, he planned to remain 'at the forefront of Google’s government relations team.' And Obama even has considered him for Commerce Secretary."[28] Schmidt was an informal advisor to the Obama presidential campaign and began campaigning the week of October 19, 2008, on behalf of the candidate

2011: Google chairman Eric Schmidt dating a PR girl? - Times Of India

NEW YORK: Google chairman Eric Schmidt, who is still married to his wife, is dating a "beautiful brunette" at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Multibillionaire Schmidt, 56, has been repeatedly seen out with the attractive 45-year-old Lisa Shields including dining at Tutto il Giorno in Southampton, and spending time at a summer rental in the Hamptons.
..."Lisa has spent a lot of time traveling with Eric and on his yacht Oasis in the Caribbean and the South of France," the New York Post quoted a source as saying.