Rock 'n' roll conjures images of overindulgence, wild parties and insistent stars in dressing rooms demanding their green M&Ms. Enter Jack Johnson: more than acoustic channel than rock 'n' seethe but scarce as large a principal. Johnson's requests, however, ar not for champagne and caviar just for venues that kickoff the carbon copy emissions of his crew and bring home the bacon ample recycling facilities.
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His music life history began in Hawaii, where he taught himself guitar on days when he wasn't at the beach. He went from merchandising bootleg albums to marketing out 20,000 seat amphitheaters, just throughout that time, Johnson always unbroken a property in his heart for his hometown and its beauty. Perhaps that was the accelerator for his environmentalist bent.
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Johnson, 33, is one of a modern breed of musicians more concerned with the surround than luxuries. Rather than piling up the Poland Spring moldable, his crew is outfitted with reusable water bottles that ar refilled end-to-end the day.
Johnson is currently on enlistment through the end of August promoting his modish CD "Sleep Through the Static," released in February, an record album recorded victimization 100 percentage solar vitality and printed on recycled paper.
His turn buses and trucks ply on biodiesel. Tour T-shirts are made of constitutional cotton, and Johnson's staff recruits an army of young volunteers to help oneself get the word verboten in the Village Green, a series of tents that greet fans as they enter the concert venues. Each tent is staffed by a different nonprofit that educates concert-goers about a variety of environmentally-friendly activities, from cleansing up rivers to buying organic foods to promoting peace and registering to vote.
In an effort to make the green a more interactive place, fans who
