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Contributing a little non-toxic odor to the atmosphere, that dready on the corner playing guitar is the icon of the green revolution.  Living off of less that 1,000 dollars a year, eating nuts and berries, using less than 5 gallons of water a week, who could be more environmentally sound? But everyone holds room for improvement, so here are ways to green your tie-dye wearing friend sleeping on the couch.   

1. Smoke Organic Marijuana.  Medical marijuana is becoming increasingly accessible; indoor pot can be grown organically but most is not, plus the light bulbs and equipment is often thrown away after it is no longer functional.  Take care to ask where your weed comes from and how it is grown. 
2. Carpool or convert to bio-diesel.  Traveling yonder and far to see shows burns a lot of gas so if you don’t have five people piled in your VW bug, pick up a hitchhiker.
3. Tie-dye organically. Bright colors are fun eye candy but get psychedelic at no cost to the environment, make sure the dye is eco-savvy and the cotton is organic.
4. Read the labels and ask questions when shopping on the lot or at concert vending.  Clothes often look natural and hippified but a lot of vendors don’t sell items that come from or are made from a good source.
5. Compost your fecal waste.  Twenty hippies just arrived at the compound after a four-day festival.  Before you start digging a new outhouse read, The Humanure Handbook, and build a composting toilet, it’s easy and basically free.
6. Trade in the hemp necklace for a Bead’s for Life necklace.  Women in Uganda make the necklaces from recycled magazines creating income for impoverished Africans.
7.  Got hippy mace? (That would be a flashlight, stuns hippies from 5 to 10 feet away!) Make sure you are loading with reusable batteries.
8.  Trade in the Burk’s for revolutionary green sandals; find a variety of fun eco-friendly sandal sites at Ideal Bite.
9.  Smoking pot with a magnifying glass seems like a lost tradition, bring it back whenever the sun is shining.
10. Make a donation.  Living off of next to nothing is hard but when money does come your way do something good with a little, adopt a manatee or support a local green non-profit, karma will get you back!