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PDX-Earth Doug Cress hosts PDX-Earth each week on Portland's KPSU to discuss environmental issues.

PDX-Earth Episode 148Today's episode discussed the out-of-control wildfires and smoke blanketing the Northern Hemisphere...
07/30/2026

PDX-Earth Episode 148
Today's episode discussed the out-of-control wildfires and smoke blanketing the Northern Hemisphere, how Oregon's controversial animal cruelty petition came up short, OHSU's about-face on a monkey sanctuary, the 6 states the Trump Administration has selected for nuclear disposal sites, an interview with Colorado State University researcher Arielle Milkman regarding the human health dangers of wildfire smoke, the Okefenokee Swamp gets U.N. protection, how sports leagues dispose of losing teams' merchandise, tips to reduce your carbon footprint, and music from Senegal, Brazil, New Zealand, Finland and Motown.

Click here to download and listen:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YD2wDN9p_W4mR3xDPC5sf_C0AxmWk2xE/view?usp=sharing

For more, visit kpsu.org.

PDX-Earth Episode 147Today's show discusses why the confluence of floods, fires, heat waves, disease outbreaks and tropi...
07/23/2026

PDX-Earth Episode 147
Today's show discusses why the confluence of floods, fires, heat waves, disease outbreaks and tropical storms might actually be the true arrival of climate change, why smoke from wildfires attacks nearly every system in the human body, whether Donald Trump has the legal right to punish Canada's wildfire smoke with tariffs, Trump's diatribe against National Academies of Science for providing U.S. judges with climate change facts, the failure of Oregon's controversial animal cruelty petition to clear a key election hurdle, record gray whale strandings on the Pacific Coast, the environmental impact of ladybugs, tips to lower your carbon footprint, and music from Malawi, Norway, Australia, Jamaica, France, Argentina and Motown.

Click here to download and listen:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ywC8bYcyMn-1EfppH5z2DIvpmFQ66Ksg/view?usp=sharing

For more, visit kpsu.org

PDX-Earth Episode 146Today's show discusses how New York's one-year moratorium on data centers could trigger a national ...
07/16/2026

PDX-Earth Episode 146
Today's show discusses how New York's one-year moratorium on data centers could trigger a national revolt, the Trump Administration's attack on endangered species, how China's green wall turned back the Gobi desert, the quiet death of a skyscraper pine tree, an interview with Heritage Trees manager Jeff Ramsey regarding historic cedars, oaks and pines in Portland, the eco-impact of squishy stress-relief toys, tips to lower your carbon footprint, and music from Malawi, Norway, Jamaica, France, Argentina and Motown.

Click here to download and listen:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iuWFrJ_xhGvmJTCPRO5vC_3XqInRIQcn/view?usp=sharing

For more, visit kpsu.org

Want to keep up on the environment? Join me every Wednesday for "PDX-Earth" on Portland State University's KPSU radio (k...
07/15/2026

Want to keep up on the environment? Join me every Wednesday for "PDX-Earth" on Portland State University's KPSU radio (kpsu.org) from 1-2 p.m. (PST) where we'll focus on what you and I can do to save the world. Today's show will discuss how New York's one-year moratorium on data centers could trigger a national revolt, the Trump Administration's attack on endangered species, how China's green wall turned back the desert, the quiet death of a skyscraper pine tree, an interview with Heritage Trees manager Jeff Ramsey regarding historic cedars, oaks and pines in Portland, the eco-impact of squishy stress-relief toys, tips to lower your carbon footprint, and music from Malawi, Norway, Thailand, Jamaica, France, Argentina and Motown.

For more, visit kpsu.org

PDX-Earth Episode 145Today's show discusses how climate change this summer is impacting major sports events like the Wor...
07/15/2026

PDX-Earth Episode 145
Today's show discusses how climate change this summer is impacting major sports events like the World Cup and the Tour de France, how Fourth of July fireworks gave Washington D.C. the dirtiest air in the world, people who bet - literally - on wildfires, the EPA's decision to stop testing drinking water, an interview with PEACE Act organizer David Michelson updating the push to get the controversial IP28 that allows animal cruelty on the November ballot in Oregon, Green Economy tops $10 trillion, Portland's Forest Park under attack, tips to lower your carbon footprint, and music from Ireland, Scotland, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Indonesia and Motown.

Click here to download and listen:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17nHeX5XwZ-EPHgDeP6WyH-CxKeHX-BX3/view?usp=sharing

For more, visit kpsu.org.

Want to keep up on the environment? Join me every Wednesday for "PDX-Earth" on Portland State University's KPSU radio (k...
07/08/2026

Want to keep up on the environment? Join me every Wednesday for "PDX-Earth" on Portland State University's KPSU radio (kpsu.org) from 1-2 p.m. (PST) where we'll focus on what you and I can do to save the world. Today's show will discuss how climate change this summer is impacting major sports events like the World Cup and the Tour de France, how Fourth of July fireworks gave Washington D.C. the dirtiest air in the world, people who bet - literally - on wildfires, the EPA's decision to stop testing drinking water, Green Economy tops $10 trillion, Portland's Forest Park under attack, tips to lower your carbon footprint, and music from Ireland, Scotland, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Indonesia and Motown.

For more, visit kpsu.org.

Want to keep up on the environment? Join me every Wednesday for "PDX-Earth" on Portland State University's KPSU radio (k...
07/01/2026

Want to keep up on the environment? Join me every Wednesday for "PDX-Earth" on Portland State University's KPSU radio (kpsu.org) from 1-2 p.m. (PST) where we'll focus on what you and I can do to save the world. Today's show will discuss the steep eco-toll of soccer executives flying around North America in private jets to attend World Cup games, the EPA's decision to stop testing drinking water, Trump administration efforts to divert Puerto Rico's alternative energy funds, Green Economy tops $10 trillion, invasive species hit Oregon, killer whale and bear sightings in Oregon, the growing bans on fireworks ahead of America's 250, tips to lower your carbon footprint, and music from Ireland, Scotland, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Indonesia and Motown.

For more, visit kpsu.org.

PDX-Earth Episode 143Today's show discusses climate change's growing impact on this summer's World Cup soccer tournament...
06/29/2026

PDX-Earth Episode 143
Today's show discusses climate change's growing impact on this summer's World Cup soccer tournament, Donald Trump's about-face on whether to dismantle a critical ocean monitoring network, Trump administration efforts to divert Puerto Rico's alternative energy funds, Green Economy tops $10 trillion, invasive species hit Oregon, an interview with "Follow the Sun" author and solar power expert Ben Jacklet, the environmental impact of laundry scent beads, tips to lower your carbon footprint, and music from Ireland, Scotland, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Indonesia and Motown.

Click here to download and listen:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fIREAurYHmVk6skj0LOsdgTXy_3dDbTO/view?usp=sharing

For more, visit kpsu.org.

PDX-Earth Episode 142Today's show discusses the rapid development of data centers as political lightning rods, Donald Tr...
06/25/2026

PDX-Earth Episode 142
Today's show discusses the rapid development of data centers as political lightning rods, Donald Trump's order to open the deep oceans to commercial fishing, the fall of the last Abraham Lincoln "witness tree," social media bans for kids in the U.K., an interview with Oregon State University ocean expert Dr. Burke Hales regarding Trump Administration attempts to dismantle the network of ocean buoys that monitor climate change, the growing market for sustainable sporting goods, tips to lower your carbon footprint, and music from Liberia, Japan, New Zealand, Brazil, Mexico and Motown.

Click here to download and listen:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14CcaLoNC6nXl1QmjGbpo6Tu0llAiLgTW/view?usp=sharing

For more, visit kpsu.org.

Want to keep up on the environment? Join me every Wednesday for "PDX-Earth" on Portland State University's KPSU radio (k...
06/24/2026

Want to keep up on the environment? Join me every Wednesday for "PDX-Earth" on Portland State University's KPSU radio (kpsu.org) from 1-2 p.m. (PST) where we'll focus on what you and I can do to save the world. Today's show will discuss the climate change's growing impact on this summer's World Cup soccer tournament, Donald Trump's about-face on whether to dismantle a critical ocean monitoring network, Trump administration efforts to divert Puerto Rico's alternative energy funds, Green Economy tops $10 trillion, invasive species hit Oregon, an interview with "Follow the Sun" author and solar power expert Ben Jacklet, the environmental impact of laundry scent beads, tips to lower your carbon footprint, and music from Ireland, Scotland, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Indonesia and Motown.

For more, visit kpsu.org.

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