The biggest revelations from Down to Earth with Zac Efron

Down To Earth With Zac Efron brought these big revelations

In Down to Earth with Zac Efron, Zac Efron, and his friend Darin Olien, a guru of healthy living and superfoods, travel around the world to learn about green energy and sustainable living practices.

Throughout the first season, Zac and Darin traveled to places such as Iceland, France, and Costa Rica to see how these countries are working to make the world a greener place. In their travels, they learned about hydroelectric plants, France’s tap water system, and visited an eco-village.

Here are some of the biggest revelations from Down to Earth with Zac Efron.

Ljosafoss Power Station

In the series premiere, Zac and Darin visited Ljosafoss Power Station, one of 15 power stations in Iceland that helps to generate 75% of the country’s electricity.

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At the power station, the men met Dr. Oli Gretar Blondal Sveinsson, who explained the process of using hydropower to generate electricity. Zac and Darin were also given the opportunity to try out various interactive activities that helped demonstrate to them how force can generate electricity.

Zac then explained that the hydroelectric plant uses turbines to pump water through pipes located in a cave underneath the plant and through power lines. The force from the water prompts the turbines to start turning and converting that energy into electricity.

However, the turbines do not need a huge amount of pressure exerted within the initial hit for them to spin, the workers just need to ensure that a consistent amount of pressure is applied.

Paris’s tap water system is provided by a single public operator

In Episode 2, Zac and Darin traveled to Paris, where they learned about the city’s tap water system.

According to the show, since 2010, Eau de Paris, a public organization, has controlled the production and distribution of tap water throughout the city. In conversation with the deputy mayor of Paris Celia Blauel, the men learned that Eau de Paris provide clean drinking water for the city year-round, and provide more than 1,000 drinking fountains around the city. Zac explained that despite bottled water being the main way that we consume drinking water, 25% of bottled water is unfiltered tap water.

This means that we could be consuming dangerous contaminants, microbes, and mold as we drink without even knowing it. Luckily, Paris’s model allows them to provide filtered drinking water, and the money that the city makes through their tap water system ends up being reinvested back into the economy. This model has been so successful that 500 countries are starting to adopt it.

An eco-village in Costa Rica allows students to teach themselves

Finally, in Episode 3, Zac, and Darin traveled to Costa Rica to visit the eco-village La Ecovilla, which is run by Darin’s friend Stephen Brooks. The village is made up of 44 different families from 28 different countries.

Located in a fruit forest, Ecovilla allows its residents to live among the food they eat. With fruits such as mandarin limes, breadfruit, and cacao available, the residents of Ecovilla can easily make use of the natural resources that are readily available to them in an attempt to reduce their carbon footprint. This concept is what also drives the village’s education program.

At Casa Sula School, which is a collaboration between a group of teachers and parents that live in the village, the students are given the resources to teach themselves in Spanish and English with a new exhibit guiding some of their learning each week. Students are also encouraged to prepare their own food and use tools to build their own toys.

While there, Zac and Darin talked to two of the school’s students, Mila, who spoke Spanish and German before attending Casa Sula School and learned English at the school, and Oliver, an 11-year-old who attended several traditional schools before coming to Casa Sula School. When they asked him what he liked most about the school, Oliver said that Casa Sula School allowed him to choose his destiny, which seems to be what Ecovilla, in general, is all about.

Have you watched Down to Earth with Zac Efron? What facts surprised you the most? Let us know in the comments.

To learn more, you can stream the entire first season of Down to Earth with Zac Efron on Netflix now.