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Writer's pictureSarah Rodriguez

Costa Rica

Down to Earth with Zac Efron on Netflix

Rating: 8/10


Summary

This is the third episode in the series. The series follows Zac and Darin around the world as they search for healthy and sustainable ways to live. This episode focuses on questioning everything. Where does your food come from? How do you learn? How do you see the world? How do you help? Overall, I enjoyed this episode and I thought that it taught important lessons. I think that it is important to question how and why we do things instead of just accepting them. However, I did get cult vibes from La Ecovilla, Casa Sula School, and Punta Mona. All in all, if it seems to work for them and they are promoting healthy and sustainable ways to live, I do not think there is much harm being done, at least not to the environment.


Fast Facts

  • La Ecovilla - Made up of 44 families from 28 countries all living in harmony with the common goal to live a healthy sustainable life

  • Rambutan - A fruit bearing, tropical tree native to regions of tropical Southeast Asia. Its taste is described as sweet and sour, much like a grape

  • Annual food - Tomatoes, corn, hemp, rice, wheat (things that you plant and die within a season)

  • Perennial food - Avocado, oranges, coca, breadfruit (trees - regrow every year)

  • Use what is locally or immediately available to create the smallest possible ecological footprint

  • Casa Sula School - There is no specific division of grades, all of the students learn together, you get to choose your destiny, and they do not have tests or homework

  • Jaguar Rescue Center cares for any and all wildlife including deer, sloths, ocelots, boars, and monkeys

  • The Jaguar Rescue Center gets 2-3 new animals in need a day

  • Punta Mona - A family owned off the grid farm and educational retreat center, meals are sacred, all food is prepared from the land

  • Over 150 medicinal plants are grown at Punta Mona

Places to Visit

  • Terraventuras Nativo Zipline (Puerto Viejo de Limon, Costa Rica)

  • Jaguar Rescue Center (Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica)

What I Learned

  • Question everything

  • The problem may be the solution

  • Think differently about everything; how you work, what you eat, how you learn, who you can be, and what you want versus what you actually need

  • Change is up to you by challenging old ideas

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