something smells bad

It's hard not to be fooled these days.
And those hippies are creative people.
Sometimes the only way you can tell a hippie from a normal person is the faintest smell of patchouli lingering in the hall, maybe some reusable tupperware peeking out of a cloth bag. Lately you get the feeling that they're everywhere.
It's true, they are. It's been a quiet return but hippies have been using their sly dexterity to be seen and heard in imaginative and forceful ways. Take, for example, Free Range Studios.
This group of "message shapers and image makers" offer "design, communication, and strategy services" to clients including Amnesty International, AlterNet.org, Planned Parenthood, Greenpeace and the Sierra Club.
Their projects range from logo design to campaign strategy. They were also the brains behind the award winning internet video "The Meatrix," a flash animated short on factory farming. Two videos have followed, "Grocery Store Wars" and "The Mouth Revolution ", both speaking on the topic of organic food.
And the Soil Association, the UK's leading organization for the organic cause just finished up its annual conference. It united world experts to discuss "post peak oil" times and what they will mean for organic farming, food transportation, and food security.
So basically the hippies are networking, bouncing their bare-footed, earth-loving, moonbeam-filled ideas off of each other.
Just a word of advice:
Be careful who you trust.