12/30/24: 🏃‍♀️1-min exercise, nectar wolves, and sleep mapping

Happy Monday my friend,

As 2024 comes to a close, I want to thank you for being part of the Earth Conscious Life community. I learn so much from our kind, educated, engaged readers, and we have exciting developments for ECL coming in 2025! Together, we’re inspiring real change through incremental actions for human & planetary restoration, increased ecological & mental/physical health awareness, and creating ripples that move us close to a regenerative future.

Here’s an inside peek at some stats from our newsletter this year:

🧓 BE THE CHANGE: There’s no age too old to start the fight against pollution. Special Education teacher Sharon Lavigne, 72, began speaking out against petrochemical plants in her native city in Louisiana. After being diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis, Lavigne put two and two together: it was the plant’s chemical pollution making her sick. Read her inspiring story and how she is still fighting pollution today.

🍝 RECIPE OF THE WEEK: This Spaghetti with Creamy Lemon-Spinach Sauce captures summer flavors of the Italian Riviera! Whole wheat pasta (or swap for no gluten) dances with basil, spinach, lemon, and more in this pesto-inspired recipe (we leave out the cheese)… and your taste buds will sing for more.

🌿 SUPERFOOD SPOTLIGHT: The coca plant has been controversial for decades, but still boasts incredible benefits— without giving you any buzz. It may be decades more before it ever reaches superfood (or legal!) status in most countries— but in Colombia, where it grows native, coca leaves are making a comeback! Read about its return as a health ingredient for Colombian cuisine, teas, baked goods, beverages, and more.

💤 MIND: Sleep regulates memory, immunity, mood, and more. Scientists have also found that during sleep your brain is geographically mapping its surroundings into memory! Apparently, truly getting to know an area happens with “cognitive mapping” in your brain while you sleep. If you struggle with a good sense of direction, or easily get lost…a more reliable sleep routine could help.

⏰ BODY: Don’t have time to exercise? Researchers found you might not need that half an hour— or even 5 minutes—to reap certain health benefits. A study of participants in Australia found that short intense bursts of exercise, even as short as 1.5 minutes, drastically reduce the risk of major cardiac events. Interestingly, women benefited more from these exercises than men. Read this fascinating study here.

🤖 SPIRIT: Should Artificial Intelligence be tasked with improving our spiritual lives? Some AI apps are developed to boost mindfulness— even to train the human mind to meditate better. But there could be hidden drawbacks and dangers. Read about AI training for “eyes open” meditation, what that involves, and how the safest approach requires conscious balance between human and machine mind to be impactful.

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😊 Conscious Corner

Other earth-conscious stories you may have missed…

🧠 SPEED SURPRISE: Human thought processes information at just 10 bits per second (more)

🦋 MONARCH PROTECTION: Decision under Endangered Species Act expected soon (more)

🐺 NECTAR-DRINKING WOLVES: A first for large carnivores (more)

🐳 WHALE RESCUE: 30+ stranded whales in New Zealand (more)

🥗 ORGANIC DISRUPTOR: SaladPower emerges as major player, harvesting 25k tons of organic produce monthly (more)

To a healing future,

— Rob