Cafe Direct is the United Kingdom’s largest 100% Fairtrade hot drinks company. By following their mission of changing lives and building communities through inspirational, sustainable business, they focus their social and economic impact in the...

We are so pleased to announce that Podomatic, our podcast host, has named Modern Hippie Mag one of their Movers and Shakers! This means our show was among 50 podcasts in the top 500 that climbed the most number spots overall on Jul 23, 2010. We are now...

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” – Samuel Johnson In the realm of all things possible, the characteristics of everything that has ever been achieved vary from endeavor to endeavor....

Regardless of your religious or cultural background, the image of the Buddha inspires visions of peace, tranquility, and well-being. Through the practice of meditation and the idea of being at one with the world, this mindset transcends religion and...

“For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.” – Jerry Garcia It may very well be that the attempt to control forces outside of themselves led to the downfall of...

“‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” – John Keats It is somewhat sad that in this day and age our concept of beauty is often based on Photoshopped magazine ads...

I first became aware of Jeff Klein through LinkedIn when he was offering a free eBook to augment his latest book Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living. I was immediately inspired by his theories on social entrepreneurism and was...

“Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Photo by Erik Johannson As we prepare each day to go out and...

“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.” – Michael Pollan Photo by Faey Szeuw The onset of the Industrial Revolution brought with it a forceful mindset, one beset with the notion that we can bend...

Ever since reading The World Peace Diet, I’ve been toying with the idea of becoming a vegetarian and vaguely considering the idea of actually making the shift to veganism. For those of you who have made this shift, you know that it can sometimes...

“I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.” Leo Buscaglia Photo by Andy Reis Given all of the problems that plague the modern world, it is very tempting to...

I recently had the privilege of spending some time speaking with Dolly Freed, author of Possum Living: How To Live Well Without a Job and (Almost) No Money. Dolly wrote the book, which has since become a cult classic, at the age of eighteen in the late...

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” – Carl Jung Photo by Colin Brough In pursuing a holistic lifestyle, living with a conscious connection to the natural world around...

“We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”  – Joseph Campbell Photo by Dia We are very much...

To help you spread the message of peace, hope, love, and sustainability, we’re offering a new line of organic cotton t-shirts. The front of the shirt is emblazoned with a quote by some of the greatest thinkers in the world, and the back bears the...

“Sustainable Development is… development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs…” – from the World Commission On Environment and Development’s...