Destination DIY

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Destination DIY is an independently produced public radio show and podcast about revolutionary do-it-yourself projects. Taking the DIY lens beyond home improvement and crafts, we explore all kinds of ways people are working with limited resources to create rather than consume the world around them. Destination DIY blends recorded field sound, in-studio interviews and personal narration to create an arc that takes listeners on a journey and brings them back inspired.

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Collective Living
From Destination DIY
Caption: The 25th St. House owned by Portland Collective Housing, Credit: Portland Collective Housing (PCH)
What happens when a group of friends get together to buy a house? That's what some people did in Portland, Oregon in 2003. The house is still owned...

Bought by WFPL News


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 00:08:51
  • Purchases: 1
Daily Rituals
From Destination DIY
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People observe all sorts of small rituals, sometimes on a daily basis. But what separates these activities from daily routines, like brushing your ...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:37
Newspaper Funeral
From Destination DIY
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When a neighborhood newspaper folds, the publisher creates a unique ritual to mark its passing.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:42
Portland Fruit Tree Project
From Destination DIY
Caption: Shiro plums picked by the Portland Fruit Tree Project (after this photo was taken), Credit: Portland Fruit Tree Project
The Portland Fruit Tree Project harvests fruit that would otherwise go to waste and gives it to area food banks, where fresh produce is scarce.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:16
  • Purchases: 1
Handclapping Games
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Children have their own kind of oral history in the form of rhymes and handclapping games that are passed down from generation to generation. What ...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:13
Walking a Labyrinth
From Destination DIY
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A labyrinth is a circular path that leads to a center. Walking a labyrinth is an ancient ritual that pre-dates religion. Eunice Schroeder found a n...

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:52
  • Purchases: 2
Adoption Ritual
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When Katie Perkins adopted 10-year-old Tajenae out of foster care, they created a ritual to mark the occasion.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:46
Representing Yourself in Court
From Destination DIY
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A mother struggles to represent herself in a custody dispute when she runs out of money to pay her lawyer.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:58
  • Purchases: 1
Doing It Ourselves
Series: Destination DIY
From Destination DIY
Caption: Shiro plums picked by the Portland Fruit Tree Project (after this photo was taken)
Doing it Ourselves: What it really takes to work, play and live together. ***This show aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting as part of a series of 5...

Bought by KLCC, KUT, WYSO, and WRVO


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Representing Yourself
Series: Destination DIY
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Representing Yourself is a DIY project we do in all kinds of ways — in job interviews, on stage, in court and through visual art such as self-portr...

Bought by KUT, WYSO, and WRVO


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 3
DIY Rituals
Series: Destination DIY
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We depend on all kinds of secular and spiritual rituals to mark the ends and beginnings of things. Sometimes this means following a long-standing t...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, WYSO, WRVO, KUT, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 5
DIY Economy
Series: Destination DIY
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Local currency, bartering on the playground and other ways of looking at money through a DIY lens. ***This show aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting...

Bought by WYSO and WRVO


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 2
I Made That!
Series: Destination DIY
From Destination DIY
Caption: One of Emily Martin's paintings, Credit: Emily Martin/The Black Apple
Inventors, builders, butchers, artists talk about the projects that inspire them to point and say with pride, “I made that!” ***This show aired on...

Bought by WYSO, KUT, and WRVO


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:09
  • Purchases: 3
Backyard Farmers
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Raising vegetables and livestock surrounded by surburban neighbors.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Sep 06, 2008
  • Length: 00:07:21
  • Purchases: 1
Tour de Coops
From Destination DIY
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Backyard chicken farmers give a guided tour of their coops.

Bought by WTIP, New Hampshire Public Radio, The Nature Podcast, and WAMC


  • Added: Sep 06, 2008
  • Length: 00:05:35
  • Purchases: 4
Destination DIY: Urban Farming
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City-dwellers raising plants and animals while holding down a day job.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 01, 2008
  • Length: 00:28:10
  • Purchases: 1
Destination DIY: Cycling
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An exploration of human-powered transportation.

Bought by KUT, WSCS-FM, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2008
  • Length: 00:27:54
  • Purchases: 3
Destination DIY: Gender Expression
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Can gender be a do-it-yourself project?

Bought by WSCS-FM


  • Added: Jun 27, 2008
  • Length: 00:28:05
  • Purchases: 1
Home Brewing
From Destination DIY
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brewing beer in the driveway

Bought by KUT, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 17, 2008
  • Length: 00:07:33
  • Purchases: 4
Smallest Gallery in Town
From Destination DIY
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Take an audio tour of a crawl space turned gallery.

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Apr 19, 2008
  • Length: 00:08:15
  • Purchases: 1

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