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Jack Johnson's no-pretensions approach to green living has turned the mellow rocker into one of the music world's leading environmentalists. But the best part of his eco-ethos? It won't make your eyes roll.

Napoleon Dynamite was on to something. Hybrid creatures like pizzlies, blynxes, and bonanzees are beautiful and cool—and they're forcing evolutionary scientists to rethink the web of life.

With its mad-genius creator, an A-list team of writers, and actors who know how to rip, can HBO's new left-coast drama, John from Cincinnati, finally get surf culture right? Jon Cohen peeks into the green room.