Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation

Surfer-turned-songwriter Jack Johnson is, like, totally rad, if I may lapse into my native Valley Girl dialect for a moment. This famously mellow musician chooses, as Rolling Stone notes, to live "close to nature,"  despite being a world famous folkie:

It's the way he was raised, and the way he raises his two young sons with his wife of eight years, Kim. In Oahu, the Johnsons live in a modest single-level home, perched on the side of a hill where Jack can see the surf below. He doesn't get cable, which means no TV reception at all. "That's a time-killer, man," he says, and he happily admits that he lives outside the pop-culture loop"

"Johnson spends his days outdoors: fishing, surfing, kayaking, swimming or just doing yardwork and looking at the waves. At night, when his boys -- ages four and two, whose names Johnson wishes to keep private -- are sleeping and the house is quiet, he'll stay up late reading The New York Times online or digging into a book.