The Joy Trip Project

Series produced by James Mills

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The Joy Trip Project is a news gathering and reporting program that covers outdoor recreation, environmental conservation, acts of charitable giving and practices of sustainable living.

The purpose of this project is to raise and maintain awareness for the importance of environmental protection and the participation of all people in outdoor recreation activities and practices of healthy living.

Method:
The Joy Trip Project produces a regularly occurring online audio feature or podcast on topics related to environmental protection and the active lifestyle. Through aggressive reporting and creative storytelling combined with contemporary music the JTP aims to inform, entertain and inspire. The podcast is distributed via Real Simple Syndication (RSS) through audio programming websites such as iTunes.


47 Pieces

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A group of African-American community leaders gather to discuss their role and their future in the movement to protect the environment.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WUFT


  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Author Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams discusses her book which draws parallels between the Rwandan genocide and the plight of the Utah prairie dog

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KVMR


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 23:57
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Greg Mortenson
Humanitarian Greg Mortenson discusses the book that tells the story of his work building schools for the children of Pakistan.

  • Added: May 11, 2009
  • Length: 14:27
Caption: Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, Credit: James Edward Mills
In this interview documentary filmmaker Ken Burns shares the story behind his latest work.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 15:00
Caption: Writer Dayton Duncan, Credit: James Edward Mills
A conversation with writer Dayton Duncan co-producer of "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" a film by Ken Burns

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 1
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An interview with Time Magazine Reporter Pico Iyer on his book The Open Road: The Global Journey of the 14th Dalahi Lama

  • Added: Feb 18, 2010
  • Length: 13:25
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An interview with BASE jumper Karina Hollekim on her recovery from a devastating fall with a failed parachute

  • Added: Dec 29, 2010
  • Length: 14:57
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An interview with best-selling author and the director of the Central Asia Institute.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2010
  • Length: 11:48
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Filmmakers Nick Rosen and Peter Mortimer share their thoughts on the tragic deaths of three killed in an avalanche while shooting on location in China

  • Added: Dec 29, 2010
  • Length: 13:09
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An interview with the director and founder of the D.C. Central Kitchen Robert Egger

  • Added: Dec 30, 2010
  • Length: 13:46
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An interview with Shannon Galpin executive director of an organization that works to provide education and pre-natal care for women in Afghanistan

  • Added: Dec 30, 2010
  • Length: 15:56
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An interview with adventure filmmaker Dominic Gill and his journey riding a tandem bicycle 22,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina while inviting com...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 15:18
  • Purchases: 1
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An interview with MacArthur Genius grant winner Majora Carter on the role minorities will likely play in the creation of sustainable environmental ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 13:03
  • Purchases: 1
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An interview with author John Francis, an environmental scientist who spent 17 years without speaking or riding in a motorized vehicle.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 15:08
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A conversation with photo journalists Alan Winslow and Morrigan McCarthy on their 11,000-mile bicycle journey to record and photograph the thoughts...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 17:00
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An interview with Peggy Shepard executive director of West Harlem Environmental Action Inc.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 16:21
  • Purchases: 1
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An interview with Louie Psihoyos, the Oscar wining director of a film that depicts the tragic circumstances behind the annual slaughter of 23,000 d...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 17:48
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An interview with Rick Ridgeway, executive director of Freedom to Roam, a program that works to protect the corridors through which animals travel ...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 15:51
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The actress Anna Deavere Smith performing scenes from her one-woman play "Let Me Down Easy"

  • Added: Jan 03, 2011
  • Length: 14:53
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An interview with professional mountaineer Peter Athans that explores his project preserve ancient Tibetan artifacts that pre-date Buddhism.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 03, 2011
  • Length: 11:36
  • Purchases: 1