This is Outside In. I'm Justine Paradise. It's the end of the year and I think this is

a really nice time to share things that brought us a little joy this year. So today we're

sharing something, a story about a climate solution that could be described as cute.

Not a word that you hear describing climate solutions very often.

It comes from our friends at the podcast How to Save a Planet from Gimlet.

And let's just dive in, shall we? Enjoy, have a new year, and we'll catch you in a couple of weeks.

Welcome to How to Save a Planet. I'm Alex Bloomberg and this is the show where we talk about

what we need to do to address climate change and how to make those things happen.

Hey, Kendra. Hey, Alex. So you are an elite member of the crack producing and reporting team

here at How to Save a Planet. And you're here to tell us about something you recently did.

You went on your first field reporting trip for the podcast. I did. Literally. I was in a field.

You know that's not what field reporting means, right? Like it doesn't mean you have to go to a field.

Wait, I've been doing it wrong the entire time. What were you doing, field reporting in the

literal field? I was making friends with with sheep. Yes, those are sheep. Oh, they're coming,

they're like running. Hello, this is number five. She was hand raised. So that's her name, not her

number. So the voice you're hearing apart from the sheep is this woman named Judy St. Ledger.

She's a shepherd and she tells me this delightful backstory behind number five's name.

So this girl was born in 2016. Save that. And she was the fifth of a set of quintuplets. Now,

sheep will commonly have one or two babies, but five was unheard of for us either before or since. So

she's a well-beloved member of the flock. I love. Like are you just like surrounded by sheep as you're

talking to Judy? Yeah. And did you hear them breathing? Like, because they were like sniffing the

microphone. It was great. Five. And you know, her kin. They don't really know it, but they're all

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