Daily Grist: Bill McKibben needs your ideas for action

View with images | Search Grist | My Account Cause medics?! Ask Umbra on dangerous cosmetics and regulatory loopholes When one reader learns about all the toxic chemicals in everyday personal care products, she turns to Umbra for help. One way to stay safe: DIY. Read more.   Advertisement Texaco (now Chevron) deliberately dumped 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the Amazon rainforest. The waste contaminated water, killed wildlife and endangered the lives of tens of thousands of indigenous men, women and children. Demand that Chevron addresses one of the world's most egregious environmental disasters. Lights, camera, direct action A call for direct action in the climate movement: we need your ideas Mass direct action must play a bigger role in the climate movement, say Bill McKibben, Philip Radford, and Rebecca Tarbotton. Think about possibilities for direct action, and tell us what you come up with.   ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHOICE-STERS Colorado governor’s race: Hickenlooper vs. Maes vs. Tancredo Colorado voters face a stark choice in their gubernatorial election this fall: a mayor who's promoted biking, walkability, and public transportation; a Tea Partier who thinks bike-sharing is part of a U.N. scheme; or a third-party candidate who only talks about immigration. Get the story.   Fearful flyer Will Trader Joe’s finally do right by farmworkers? Trader Joe's is among the most recent targets of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Fair Food Campaign. But if Joe is feeling the heat, he ain't showing it. Read more.   Hit the breaks! Obama: Rebuild America by slashing oil tax breaks The president says we can create jobs by fixing the country's infrastructure. Cool. He wants to slash Big Oil tax breaks to help pay for it. Uh-oh. Also, the car boom in China picks up speed, and Nike does mountaintop mining -- badly. Find out more.   Petrodollars Koch brothers jump into Prop 23 fight A company controlled by the billionaire Koch brothers, who have bankrolled numerous right-wing causes, has donated $1 million to the campaign to pass Proposition 23, the California ballot initiative that would suspend the state's global-warming law. Find out more.   couldn't punch their way out of a plastic bag California bags the plastic bag ban but makes solar leap The Golden State failed to ban plastic bags and may reverse its landmark climate bill, but it's also adding solar capacity like crazy. Thousands of megawatts are set to come on line in the near future. California's on a solar streak. Find out more.   'The Suburbs' and bright green urbanism Friday music blogging: Arcade Fire You can bet an artist is grappling with questions of place and home and belonging when she belts out a line like, "Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small / that we can never get away from the sprawl ... Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains / And there's no end in sight." Find out more.

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