Jack Johnson may be off the road, but he’s busy with another full-time job: environmental work. For Friday’s World Environment Day, Johnson is in the Bahamas for a ceremony on the Eleuthera Islands where he will become a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme.
He’s taking the job seriously: Afterwards, he will head out for the 5 Gyres Sea Change research expeditions to promote alternatives to disposable plastics. he told Rolling Stone “I’m really excited about it. I feel like I’m in college again and I’ve got a 22-page course reader,” . “We’re bringing some guitars on the trip too and I’m really looking forward to being on this thing that looks like a pirate ship it’s a big old wooden schooner.”
