Happy Monday {{first name | my friend}},

My friend Jaymie put together a very cool app that helps people find and acquire land (if you’ve ever wanted to farm, steward, protect, or create a rental or retreat center, like they did). It’s helping real people transform their situation. If you want to CHECK IT OUT, he’s making 100 slots available for ECL readers.

And happy birthday to my sweet mom. She is a voracious reader, and has always inspired me to keep reading and learning. ❤️

🦵 HEALTH HACK: There's a small muscle in your calf that can keep your metabolism running while you sit perfectly still. University of Houston researchers found that a specific seated movement activating the soleus muscle sustained higher glucose and fat burning for hours, cutting the post-meal blood sugar spike by 52% in their testing. If you spend long stretches at your desk, you should know about THIS precise technique.

✨ MAGICAL PLACE: Pamukkale, is known as the "cotton castle” in Turkey. It looks like a snow covered hillside, with these unique white terraces from thousands of years of warm mineral pools building up from the hot springs, and hardening into stone. People have soaked here since the Romans built a spa city. The terraces are so blindingly bright, they can be seen from space.

🐦‍⬛ NATURE CONNECTION: Interestingly, you don’t have to technically leave your house to get at least some of what a walk in the woods gives you. In one study, people who listened to just six minutes of birdsong reported lower anxiety and less spiraling and paranoid thinking. In the study, a similar dose of traffic noise pushed their mental health in the other direction. So whenever you can, step outside and actually listen to those morning birds.

🤔 DID YOU KNOW? Bumblebees appear to play. When researchers at Queen Mary University of London gave them tiny wooden balls with no reward attached, the bees rolled them over and over anyway, some even somersaulting while they held on. Younger bees played the most, which is the same pattern you see in young mammals. This all contributes to the idea that these small pollinators have richer inner lives than anyone assumed.

🏡 HEALTHY HOME: Unfortunately, your plastic cutting board sheds more than you'd think. A 2023 study estimated that regular chopping on polyethylene and polypropylene boards can release tens of millions of microplastic particles into a person's food over the course of a year. It appears a single knife stroke releases 100+ particles. Swapping to a solid wood or bamboo board is one of the simplest kitchen changes you can make this week.

🌱 REGENERATIVE FUTURE: Some of the best eco-regeneration is being done by… rodents? Yes, beavers are actually rodents, too. And as they return to the watersheds they were once trapped out of, they slow streams into ponds and wetlands that hold water through drought, filter pollutants, and stay green enough to slow a wildfire as it crosses a landscape. LEARN HOW beavers are building resilient landscapes.

I’ve gotten to know Jaymie and his ‘off-grid’ team for a while now, and they’ve built something epic I've been wanting to share with the ECL community. It's an app that finds land you can buy with owner financing, points you toward grants to build on it, and runs the due diligence so you know whether a property is worth it before you commit.

Jaymie is making about 100 spots for our audience. This is going out to more than 200,000 ECL readers, so if the idea of your own land has been sitting in the back of your mind, jump on it.

>>> [GET IN BEFORE THE SPOTS RUN OUT]

Whether you want a homestead, a family farm, a retreat, or cabin rentals, this works for an acre or a hundred.

>>> [WATCH THE DEMO AND GRAB YOUR SPOT]

They're running a 7-day trial for 7 bucks. Spots will go fast.

See you in there.

Do you think ancient civilizations were more advanced than is conventionally acknowledged?

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 📜 Yes (97.2%)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🛖 Not likely (2.8%)

To a healing future,

— Rob