The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

Nicole Hughes:

U.S. Media Ignores Link Between Midwest Floods and Global Warming

Top 10 Houseplants for Removing Indoor Air Pollution

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Andy Kondrat:

Dubai to Build Rotating Positive Energy Tower

Bioethicist Peter Singer Tackles World Food Shortage

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Jon Popham:

Americacorps Workers Assist Flood Ravaged Town

Australians “Out-Fat” Americans

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Giulia Rozzi:

Progressive Book Club

Oprah Recommends “A New Earth”

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Gina Telaroli:

Human Rights Watch 2008 Film Festival Update

SilverDocs 2008 Update

Yup, I’m a sucker for Oprah recommended reading.

I just finished reading A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. I usually take forever to finish a book, but this book captured my interest so strongly that I breezed through this book in just one week (I get very proud when I actually read a whole book).

The line “awaken to your life’s purpose” on the book’s cover led me to think this book was a guide to help me better figure out my career goals. And this book did help me with career goals, but not in a direct way. Instead the book explores our ego and how collectively our ego’s shape the world. He focuses on the notion of “being” rather than “doing” and how this presence allows to discover our true life purpose. I can’t really explain this book in one blog post. Actually I can’t really explain this book at all, all I can say is it’s calmed me down while also making my head spin (in good way). I read the final page with a smile on my face excited to incorporate Tolle’s advice into my life. That was 10 days ago and so far, so good.

Here’s how the book’s site explains things: Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic

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Oprah Winfrey, Her Royal Highness of Daytime Television, has announced on her blog that she’s going vegan! Well, for 21 days as part of a cleanse, but that’s still big news in the vegan world, and will certainly bring about some positive exposure of the vegan lifestyle to millions of viewers worldwide. On her blog, Oprah said that after rereading the book, A New Earth, she was inspired to eliminate meat and dairy from her diet for a short period of time.

How can you say you’re trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?’ she wrote. [accesshollywood.com]

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