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!

Katie Halper:

“The First Time I Every Saw Your Face” May Be the First Time You Hear About Ewan MacColl

California’s Gay Marriage Ban Overturned & 5 Ways To Take Action

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Nicole Hughes:

“Bottlemania” Book Takes Bottled Water Industry To Task

Arnold Tells Automakers To “Stop Whining” About Tougher California Emissions Standards

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Andy Kondrat:

Department of Energy Forecasts Large Increase In Wind Power Usage

Edward Norton & Gavin Newsom Speak To Congress About Environmental Building Practices

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Jon Popham:

Spencer Tunick Strips Hundreds Naked

Lichtenstein Sculptures At Fairchild Garden In Miami

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Giulia Rozzi:

Does Being Ethical Pay?

Is the Anti-Female Genial Mutilation Campaign Offensive?

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Gina Telaroli:

A Global Look At Media On Pangea Day

Everything Cinema: Brody Takes On the Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard

It’s May 16th, I’m Gina Telaroli and this is TakePart.com’s look at the week in social action…

Pangea Day was on Saturday and the whole world came together to celebrate! Wendy posted an great recap of LA’s celebration and no doubt there were many awesome celebration’s across the globe. Here in NYC, our good friends at Shooting People, NYWIFT and DCTV hosted their own screening. But worry not if you missed out on the festivities, there are great videos about the power of media to connect us all at Pangea Day’s YouTube site.. Here’s a video that explains more about why the whole thing was so awesome:

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Today was the first Pangea Day- a global event bringing the world together through film. I had the great pleasure of being part of the live taping in Los Angeles. Here is a behind the scenes look at this monumental day.

The taping took place at Sony Studios inside historic Stage 15 where Dorothy followed the yellow brick road and Spider Man leaped from rooftops.

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According to a recent UCLA study, California’s film industry is the state’s second largest polluter. (Next to the oil industry, adding insult to injury.)

And the AP newswire reported: “No amount of public service announcements or celebrities driving hybrid cars can mask the fact that movie and TV production is a gritty industrial operation, consuming enormous amounts of power to feed bright lights, run sophisticated cameras, and feed a cast of thousands.”

But fear not, many actors, actresses, directors and producers are trying to help environmental efforts and the Dailygreen.com has a wonderful article giving credit to many of the green moves being made in Hollywood.

Some are using humor to spread the green love like in this hilarious short by will Ferrell and friends (NOTE: this video has language and content that may be offensive to some):

And others are doing their green part by making significantly earth friendly workplace changes such as:

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