Local Hero: Good Guy Wins

O Magazine
June 02, 2010
Local Hero: Good Guy Wins

No one knows balance like a surfer. Former big-wave prof Jack Johnson strikes an equilibrium between music superstardom (more than 18 million records sold to date), family life (the tour for his latest album, To The Sea, out this month, is planned around his kids' school breaks), and the needs of the Earth (his touring profits go to his Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation for environmental and social inititatives). "No matter how doen you get about the world," the 35-year old Hawaiian says, "you have to jump in and joyfully particiapre." Here's how he does it.