One Park. 24 Hours.

Short Wave

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

It's easy to take city parks for granted, or to think of them as separate from nature and from the Earth's changing climate. But the place where many of us come face-to-face with climate change is our local park. On today's episode, Ryan Kellman and Rebecca Hersher from NPR's Climate Desk team up with Short Wave producer Margaret Cirino to spend 24 hours in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:05.0	How you doing?
0:06.0	How are you?
0:07.0	I thought you wanted my autograph.
0:09.0	So a few weeks ago, I spent the day in Philadelphia.
0:13.0	Like literally one day, that was the assignment.
0:16.0	Spend 24 hours in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia
0:20.0	and record everything that happens.
0:23.0	I'm standing outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art
0:27.0	on those steps where Rocky was filmed, that iconic scene,
0:32.0	except I haven't seen the movie.
0:34.0	And it's really, really hot out.
0:36.0	It's so hot, I'm sweating.
0:38.0	Yeah.
0:40.0	24 hours.
0:41.0	To be clear, this was not my idea.
0:44.0	Yeah, I'm sorry.
0:46.0	It was my idea, sort of, my nervous beckas.
0:50.0	Yeah, I'm Rebecca Hersher.
0:51.0	I'm a reporter on the NPR team that covers climate change.
0:54.0	And I'm Ryan Kalman, I'm a producer and photographer on that team.
0:58.0	I'm Margaret Serino, a producer on Shortwave.
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