Weekend Hippie: Sustainable and Simple Living

Welcome to Weekend Hippie

Weekend Hippie was born Santa Barbara, California, and is all about living a full, responsible life on this planet—and having fun while doing so. First, and foremost, loving life and living it with passion while making conscious choices, even small ones, that make a difference.

If you are committed, and have decided to get completely off the grid—living off the sun and soil in the Ventana wilderness—you’re an inspiration, please keep it up (of course, you probably won’t read this because you’re off the grid).  Regrettably, most of us don’t have that option, and instead have to be satisfied making more modest statements about how we choose to live. 

1% for the Planet: The Album

 
1% for the Planet has put together some great musicians for their first digital download music album. Each musician dontated an exclusie or rare track to help 1% for the Planet do more good things around the world. Every note on every song helps 1% for the Planet continue to support environment non-profits in every continent on Earth.

41 songs for $9.99

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Featured artists:

Josh Ritter

Madi Diaz

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

Jack Johnson

G. Love & Special Sauce

Sons of William

ALO

Santa Barbara Garden Exchanges: Winter 2010

Upcoming Exchanges:

Share your harvest, your homemade goods, and meet new friends.

San Roque Neighborhood Garden Exchange

Saturday, February 20

10 AM -1 PM

3212 Calle Noguera

From the host: Bring your seeds and scions (grafting wood stock) from your garden to exchange with ours.  

California Rare Fruit Growers

Saturday, February 20

10:00 - Noon

Alpha Resource Center

4501 Cathedral Oaks Road, Santa Barbara

We will learn how to plant bare root fruit trees. There will also be a demonstration of a gopher proof wire basket by Aura. We will tour the young orchard at Alpha Resource Center that now consists of 45 fruit trees and which will eventually be greatly expanded on Alpha’s five acre site. Trees currently planted include nectarines, peaches, plums, pluots, apples, pears, white sapote, cherimoya, papaya and various citrus.

Turnpike Neighborhood Garden Exchange

Sunday, February 21

2 PM - 4 PM

5081 Oleander Place (off Walnut and Hollister, near Lane Farms)

First Sunday Mesa Neighborhood Exchange (Between Mesa Park and Wilcox)

Sunday March 7

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

2503 Medcliff Rd

San Roque Neighborhood Garden Exchange

Saturday, March 20

10 AM -1 PM

216 East Calle Laureles

San Roque Neighborhood Garden Exchange

Saturday, April 17

10 AM -1 PM

2751 Foothill Rd.

San Roque Neighborhood Garden Exchange

Saturday, May 15

10 AM -1 PM

3019 Paseo Tranquillo

Schedule and Activism Courtesy: SB Food Not Lawns

1% Percent for the Planet: The Weekend Hippie Way

 

One Percent for the Planet: The Weekend Hippie Way

When I conceptualized Weekend Hippie it was Yvon Chouinard’s 1% for the Planet model I had in mind, but on an individual scale. If my friends, and family, and distant friends, and future friends and supporters of Weekend Hippie could just give 1% of their time….it could really make a difference for them, and for mother earth.

When Chouinard hatched his brilliant idea, 1% For The Planet, in 2002, he asked corporations and non-profits to give 1% of their annual sales to environmental groups around the world. Just 1% was all he asked. Years later we can see how it has all added up: Chouinard’s 1% for the Planet now has nearly 1300 hundred business members worldwide that give 1% of their annual sales to just under 2000 environmental groups.  One percent can make a difference.

And that’s how you can be a Weekend Hippie.  Dedicate just 1% of your time, your life, to making a difference.  Go ahead, make a small statement—change your light bulbs, wear TOMS shoes, give a micro loan to a Kiva entrepreneur, travel eco-mindfully, shop at your local farmers’ market, pick-up Patagonia clothes made from recycled plastic or an organic cotton t-shirt from Weekend Hippie!  It works.  Each small statement adds up… It is not important what you do: just do!

Want to join Chouinard’s 1% for the Planet, here’s how you can help.

Own a business? Start giving 1% today.

Work for a nonprofit? You can give too, find out how.

A consumer?
Search 1% Members, and shop where it matters:

Search businesses.  Search nonprofits

For you—and your friends, and their friends—that 1% will add up pretty quickly, and eventually you’ll find yourself living the Weekend Hippie lifestyle not just 1% of the time, but 100%.  The Weekend Hippie way!

Farmers Market: Eat Local, Support Farmers

Buy local, and support your farmers.

Wow! What a season! The fruits and vegetables and culinary arts now available at farmers markets are the best of the year. The late summer meets the early fall, and the rewards are many! 

Shopping at a farmers market is the easy way to eat locally. The food source is known to you, in fact, the farmer is right at the stand, so ask any questions you need to about how something is grown, what's in season, and even how to prepare fruit and vegetables that are new to you. 

In Santa Barbara, eight farmers markets spread from end-to-end of town and happening on varies days of the week, make it easy to eat locally and healthy. Plus, you get to support local farmers while doing it.  Like many farmers markets, Santa Barbara's markets have grown quickly to now include almost everything you need to make a healthy meal for your family, while contributing to the local economy...including meat, eggs, fish, bread, pasta, vegetables, jam, olive oil, and fruit.

Find a Farmers Market Near You

Find a Santa Barbara Market Near You

New finds from Santa Barbara's Saturday market:

Organic Italian Eggplant

Fresh Pasta from Solvang Pie Company