REWIND: Staycation: All I Ever Wanted

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🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Summer is coming soon, and for many that means vacation. While traveling far and wide can be an amazing experience, the carbon cost of traveling is significant. But what if we could rekindle a sense of awe in our own neighborhoods? After years of extreme expeditions all over the world, adventurer Alastair Humphreys spent a year exploring the detailed local map around his home. His new book “Local” is an ode to slowing down, as well as a rallying cry to protect the wild places on our doorstep. Guest: Alastair Humphreys, Author; Adventurer This episode also features field reporting from producers Austin Colón and Megan Biscieglia. Support Climate One by going ad-free! By subscribing to Climate One on Patreon, you’ll receive exclusive access to all future episodes free of ads, opportunities to connect with fellow Climate One listeners, and access to the Climate One Discord. Sign up today. For show notes and related links, visit our website. Ad sales by Multitude. Contact them for ad inquiries at multitude.productions/ads Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	Okay, I've got my shoes and my hat and heading out the door.
0:36.6	This is Climate One and I'm Ariana Brocious and I'm on a walk in my neighborhood.
0:43.3	Today's episode is all about micro-adventures,
0:47.3	finding excitement, wildness, and new experiences close to home. And as I walk around, I think about how there's a lot of
0:59.9	wildness right here in my own neighborhood. I just saw a bird flip by on its way to land in a big
1:06.0	huge mesquite tree. We often have hummingbirds in our backyard drawn by the plants we
1:14.4	purposefully put there and though I'm really in part of the center of the city
1:19.6	where I live, there's lots of plants, lots of trees, flowers, and even in this
1:27.4	residential area we frequently see coyotes and havelinas, owls at night, bats.
1:34.8	There's a lot. There's a lot just in this little corner.
1:41.4	I'm Greg Dalton in my closet studio in San Francisco.
1:45.5	Welcome back, Ariana.
1:46.6	How was your walk in suburban Arizona?
1:49.2	It was lovely.
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