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Johnson Ohana Foundation Gift Nurtures Explore Ecology’s School Gardens Program
October 06, 2020
By: Noozhawk The Johnson Ohana Foundation has awarded Santa Barbara nonprofit Explore Ecology a $10,000 donation for general support of its School Gardens Program. The Johnson Ohana Foundation was founded by musician Jack Johnson and his wife Kim to support environmental, art and music education. Over the last decade, the Johnson Ohana Foundation has directed…
Kim Johnson Supports Schools Growing Food
October 14, 2019
By: Santa Barbara Independent Explore Ecology’s Edible Education Symposium Honors UCSB Alum Photo: Ryan FoleyGetting kids to better understand where their food comes from is why Kim Johnson supports edible education initiatives. Soon after graduating from UC Santa Barbara, Kim and Jack Johnson set a new mold for the music industry by using their success…
Reaping What We Sow
October 14, 2019
By: The Current The Edible Campus Student Farm gets official opening with Kim and Jack Johnson Photo Credit: MATT PERKO From the seed of an idea, to seeds in the ground and now, to an actual harvest. Seven months after the first garden beds were built and planted, the Edible Campus Student Farm at…
Women Making Waves
October 14, 2019
By: Surfrider Foundation On October 5th, the Surfrider Foundation hosted our most successful One Ocean event to date to support clean water and healthy beaches. Honoring 'Women Making Waves' and coastal activist, Kim Johnson, founder of the Kōkua Hawai'i Foundation and the Johnson Ohana Foundation, the One Ocean benefit was the second of two annual bicoastal fundraisers to protect…
Seeding Community
March 20, 2019
Alumni donors, mentors Kim and Jack Johnson lead inaugural volunteer workday at Edible Campus Student Farm Article from The Current By Shelly Leachman Photo Credit: Jessica Scheeter Two simple rows of radishes tell the story pretty well. But imagine how much richer the narrative when dozens of beds are flush with fresh produce. It won’t be long…
Jack Joins DivestInvest in Support of Climate Solutions
March 14, 2019
Photo by Thomas Campbell Jack is proud to announce his DivestInvest pledge to divest from fossil fuels and invest in climate solutions. In 2016, Jack personally divested from oil, gas and coal companies, joining a global investor movement to transition towards sustainable energy. Jack joins the over 1000 organizations and nearly 60,000 individuals who have made the…
Kim and Jack Johnson Break Ground on New Student Farm
October 10, 2018
Source: University of California, Santa Barbara Many hands working together. That’s the translation, and the spirit, of the Hawaiian word laulima. And it was laulima that two prominent Hawai'i residents — Kim and Jack Johnson — credited for the recent achievement of a long-held dream at UC Santa Barbara, their alma mater: a student farm. Three…
‘Inside, Outside and Beyond’
January 10, 2017
Unique collaboration of UCSB’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, Edible Campus Project and Orfalea Family Children’s Center seeds sustainability in preschoolers. Read the rest of the write up here.
Jack Johnson and Local Sixth-Grade Students Explore if Plastic is Fantastic
February 06, 2016
By: Huffington Post When it comes to his shows, Jack Johnson is something of a diva. Before agreeing to play somewhere, his team hands the venue a detailed rider — a list of demands that need to be met for him to play the show. But while more infamous riders from well-known artists might…
Plastic. Its history, benefits and drawbacks through art
December 02, 2015
By: yareah.com From being a key ingredient in medical supplies and refrigerator insulation to surfboards and toys, plastics are part of our world. Life as we know it wouldn’t exist without plastic. On the flip side, humans produce more than 300 million tons of plastic a year—and more than 7 million tons of it winds…